The Sumter Item. 23,941 likes · 892 talking about this. Essentially Local. Authentically Sumter. 📰 Newspapers. Newsletters. Video. Magazines. Contests🏆., On OldNews.com, you can explore the rich history of The Sumter Daily Item, with scans starting from 1960 and a total of 210,924 available scans. This resource provides a unique opportunity to discover historical figures, events, and potentially people from your own family history., The largest online newspaper archive. Used by millions every month for historical research, family history, crime investigations, journalism, and more., The Sumter Item has been the daily newspaper in Sumter since 1894. theitem.com Subscribe to Studio Sumter!, The Item, which lists itself as independent politically, serves a three-county area: Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee. Its antecedent, the Watchman and Southron, was created by Noah Graham Osteen (1843–1936) and the Reverend C. C. Brown in 1881 by merging the Sumter Watchman and the True Southron., Charles Wayne Brown, 72, husband of Brenda Kinney Brown, died Saturday, July 12, 2025, at Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital. Born July 6, 1953, in Sumter, he was a son of the late Cooper W. Brown ….