Carolinas Hospital System announces that Kyle Baxter joins the facility’s leadership team as Chief Operating Officer.

\The 2015 McLeod for Health Florence Open, a $25K USTA Women’s Pro Circuit event, began Sunday with qualifying rounds.

The Florence Little Theatre Friends will host Vino and Vendors in the theatre’s lobby and rehearsal hall on Thursday, Oct. 22, beginning at 6 p.m.

A Deep Space Objects NASA Saturday free workshop will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, for families. It will be held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Dooley Planetarium at Francis Marion University.

Family Promise of Florence hosted a grand opening and tours of its Day Center Monday afternoon and announced that it will begin operation on Nov. 1.

TIMMONSVILLE – Come celebrate fall at Ovis Hill Farm during its 15th annual festival from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, where there’ll be fun and educational activities for all ages.

The League of Women Voters of the Florence area is sponsoring a meeting on “Ethics in Government” on Monday, Oct. 26, in the Francis Marion University Nursing School auditorium at 5:30 p.m.

The CARE HOUSE of the Pee Dee presents Florence Flicks next week showing family movies outdoors in Timrod Park.

The next Live @ Central, will be on Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 6:30 p.m. The topic will be water conservation,”Protecting Water Quality Curbs to Creeks.”

Florence Henning Harllee, born in Marion, SC, on July 2, 1848, was one of six children born to General William Wallace Harllee and his wife, Martha Sarah Shackleford Harllee.

Briarcliffe Acres Town Council (Horry County) voted unanimous today to oppose offshore oil and gas drilling.