Browse past news stories for Alice Drive Elementary School in Sumter, SC.

• 'Mystery' whale dubbed Palmetto (The Post and Courier)
  posted on November 27, 2009 at 05:28:34 am
  A mysterious, huge right whale with a distinct white knob on her head haunts the Lowcountry coast every few winters. That habit and the knob have given her a name: Palmetto. It's right whale season again, the time of year when the rarest of the ocean's biggest creatures move south from their feeding grounds to calve along the Southeast from South Carolina to Florida.
• Dolphin chosen over whale in compromise (The Post and Courier)
  posted on June 4, 2009 at 04:48:18 am
  SUMTER — The cheers were so loud that the students yelling could hear each other in classrooms across the hall. But their project to name the right whale the state marine mammal taught the kids at Alice Drive Elementary School a rough lesson in legislative politics.
• S.C. Politics Today (The State)
  posted on April 24, 2009 at 04:08:31 am
  QUOTE OF THE DAY “It’s sad to see our money being spent on this diversion when the SPA’s overall performance in getting and maintaining business for the ports has been poor over the past few years.”
• Simple school project becomes political debate (WIS News 10 Columbia)
  posted on March 13, 2009 at 09:40:34 pm
  A whale or a dolphin? That's the question South Carolina lawmakers are trying to decide.
• Whale vs. dolphin for state's marine mammal (The Post and Courier)
  posted on February 20, 2009 at 05:42:51 am
  It's not easy to budge a right whale — they can weigh as much as 140,000 pounds. But local state legislators are determined to do it. Sens. Chip Campsen, R-Isle of Palms, and Paul Campbell, R-Goose Creek, defend their move to name the bottlenose dolphin the state marine mammal — instead of the right whale — as the right thing to do. Campsen introduced the bill to counter legislation designating ...
• Senator tells whale of a tale (The Post and Courier)
  posted on February 18, 2009 at 05:11:57 am
  Right whales: They're big. They're bad. And they're vicious. Good thing they're just not from here. That's what S.C. Sen. Paul Campbell, R-Goose Creek, is telling people in Sumter who e-mail him expressing support for naming the endangered creature the state marine mammal. Campbell is one ...