- Anyone 14 years of age or older who wants to learn about being a firefighter is welcome to join the Hartsville Fire Company's firefighter camp, July 11, 18, 25 and Aug. 1, 7-8:30 p.m. This is a hands-on program that will teach individual skills as well as team skills. Contact (215) 672.9242 for more information, click here. A parent must sign a parental consent form for all persons 14 and 15 years of ages.
- Don't forget to for the various categories in our Readers' Choice contest.
- Sunny today, with a high of 84, according to the National Weather Service.
- The Obama administration will go ahead with more drilling in Arctic waters, though at a pace that allows for more research before additional permits are granted, CNN reports. The administration will hold new lease sales for oil companies to drill in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas just north of Alaska, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters.
- On this day, June 27, 1954, the world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
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