C1 Online banking can lead to higher yields SPORTS Prep football action Sumter, Crestwood, Lakewood and REL all win on opening night B1 SERVING SOUTH CAROLINA SINCE OCTOBER 15, 1894 SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 $1.75 JOB GROWTH: Economist says state’s economy strengthens A9 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE — MONDAY, AUG. 21, 2017 We’re on the path to totality Are you READY? ECLIPSE TIMES IN SUMTER PARTIAL ECLIPSE: Starts at 1:14 p.m. Totality not only thing and ends at 4:07 p.m. TOTALITY: Starts at 2:43 p.m. and ends at 2:45 p.m. Duration of totality is 1 minute, 46 seconds to watch for Monday CLOSINGS BANKS / CREDIT UNIONS: • SAFE Federal Credit Union will close BY JIM HILLEY from 2:35 to 2:50 p.m.
[email protected] • Bank of Clarendon will close from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. uring its last few min- • First Citizens will close from 2 to 3 p.m. utes on land, the shadow • The Citizens Bank will close the lobby of the moon will dash from 2 to 3 p.m., but the drive thru will D be open. across South Carolina and the • BB&T, NBSC, Wells Fargo, South State “Great American Eclipse” will be Bank and AllSouth Federal Credit Union will be open their normal business gone forever. hours. Being a bit of an LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICES: astronomy nerd, I • Palmetto Tennis Center and The City of have long looked Sumter Aquatics Center both close at forward to Mon- ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF NASA noon.