Lee Gilbert (left) watches as customer Ed Valerio picks out a $2 watermelon on the side of Jefferson Davis Highway in South Carolina on Tuesday. The locally grown red-and-yellow watermelons are sold for $2 for the large and $1 for the small. Mr. Gilbert and Vernon Parker said they will be selling melons every day until the season ends in about a month.

...starting at noon. More information is available by calling Gene Mann (803-471-2549), Bobby Mills (863-7753) or Vernon Parker (663-3079). PUTT-PUTT: Augusta native Tracy Moore will be posthumously inducted into the Professional Putters...

...at the home of Gene Mann, 374 Brown Road, Cowden Plantation, Jackson, S.C. Call Mann at (803) 471-2549 or Vernon Parker at (803) 663-3079 for more details. Got an item of area interest? Call (706) 823-3337 or e-mail wardc...

...Wilma Redd of Lexington and Marshall Redd of Windsor; sister, Erma Dobek of Langley; brothers, Cecil Parker, Vernon Parker both of Graniteville, Johnny Parker of Aiken; grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Brothers, Otis Parker...

...and the late Lula Jackson Hatcher. She is survived by daughters, Gertrude Lott and Julia Parker and her husband, Vernon Parker, a son, Roy Fields, and his wife, Paulette Fields, all of Graniteville; 17 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren...

...and the late Lula Jackson Hatcher. She is survived by daughters, Gertrude Lott and Julia Parker and her husband, Vernon Parker, a son, Roy Fields, and his wife, Paulette Fields, all of Graniteville; 11 grandchildren and nine great-great...

...of Gloverville, and Lynn Black, Augusta; three brothers, Cecil Parker and Johnnie Parker, both of Aiken, and Vernon Parker, Graniteville; two sisters, Juanita Redd, Windsor, and Erma Dobek, Langley; and eight grandchildren. Pallbearers...