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[email protected] at the end of this school year. Mayewood Middle School this sum- On Monday night during a work session, Sumter The motion from the finance mer in the wake of the district’s fi- School Board of Trustees Chairman the Rev. Daryl Mc- The Sumter School District Board committee called for supporting fi- nancial crisis. According to Allan, Ghaney expresses passion for keeping schools open of Trustees voted down a motion nancial consultant Scott Allan’s and looking at other alternatives before shuttering F.J. Monday night from the board’s fi- recommendation to close F.J. De- SEE DISTRICT, PAGE A9 DeLaine Elementary and Mayewood Middle schools. A Saturday Meteorologist on the farm says rainfall in Rembert should end by noon today BY BRUCE MILLS
[email protected] After most parts of Sumter County received 2 to 4 inches of rainfall within a 24-hour stretch from Sunday evening through Monday afternoon, the skies are expected to clear by noon today, according to the National Weather Service based in Columbia. Sumter was under a Flash Flood Watch until 8 p.m. Monday. NWS Meteorologist Chris Liscinsky said Sumter could expect light isolated to scat- tered showers this morning from an upper-level front that was moving north from eastern Georgia on Monday afternoon.