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Out and About

  • Homecoming : 'Third Herd' welcomed back

    Friday, May 31, was a very special day for the family members of the Army National Guard 178th Combat Engineer Battalion, as the group returned home from Afghanistan after a 10-month deployment.

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  • Up, up and away!

    It looks almost like a scene from a science fiction movie. Lines of sleek, white motorless planes speckle a field near the border of Lancaster and Kershaw counties. Anxious pilots wait as an airplane soars overhead, towing one of the machines through the sky.

    This is the 18-Meter National Championship gliding competition, an event that gathers the best glider pilots in the U.S. and Canada to compete in a series of challenges.

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  • Parsons elected potentate

    From release
    Gary Parsons was elected potentate of the Hejaz Shriners at the annual election held Saturday, Jan. 5.
    Hejaz has 4,851 members and the Shrine Center is located on Ranch Road in Mauldin, which also hosts an 18-hole championship golf course on about 300 acres.

    Parsons was born in Georgetown and educated in the Georgetown school system where he graduated from Winya High School in 1956.

    After serving in the U.S. Army, Parsons moved to Lancaster, where he still resides today.

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  • Club tackles IL library landscaping

    Beverly Lane Lorenz
    For The Lancaster News

    The entire Indian Land community can now enjoy the major landscaping project at the Del Webb Library at Indian Land.

    “I have the most wonderful news,” said Carol Williams, president of the Sun City Carolina Lakes  Mums & Poppies Garden Keepers Club, who made this project their mission.

    “A very generous donation from one of our members was just received (last fall). This donation put us over the top. We have reached our goal of $6,246.99.

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  • Serving proudly

    Hall finishes basic training
    U.S. Air Force Airman Michael L. Hall recently graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. During the eight weeks of training, he completed intensive training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness and basic warfare principles and skills.
    Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

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  • King's dream lives on

    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is clearly a reason to celebrate; and, bringing the Indian Land community together because of it is all the more reason.

    On Jan. 20, Steele Hill AME Zion Church joined Sun City Carolina Lakes in celebrating with prayers, songs and reflections, followed by a gathering with refreshments in the Lake House ballroom at Sun City.
    SCCL Lifestyle Director Trevor Sunderlage said he and a committee of homeowners “put the program together with the idea that we would celebrate MLK’s legacy.”

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  • Anne Springs Close Greenway

    FORT MILL – As the weekends slowly begin to warm into spring, families find themselves searching for close-to-home recreational activities they can enjoy outside together.   

    If you are looking for a place where you can relax and enjoy the serene beauty of nature and leave the hustle and bustle of the real world behind you, you don’t have to go far.

    Just a short distance away, the Anne Springs Close Greenway is waiting.   

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  • Native American Studies Center expands its art gallery

    The Native American Studies Center expanded its art gallery just before Christmas with a gift made possible through an anonymous donor. Catawba Indian Chief and subject of many Catawba creations, King Haigler, rules once again in clay in a still-life painting by Greenville artist, Nancy Biggs Thomas.

    Center Curator Brittany Taylor said the work was excellent, with vibrant complementary colors highlighting two traditional King Haigler pots.

    She was delighted to welcome Thomas’s work to the Center’s collection.

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  • The Hinson Girls and Marty Stuart

    When Marty Stuart comes to Lancaster on Saturday, Feb. 9, he will be joined by some familiar faces.

    The Hinson Girls, a bluegrass and gospel band from Van Wyck, were asked by the Lancaster Performing Arts Series to be the opening act for Stuart’s concert at the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Bundy Auditorium.

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  • The delicious mystery of buttermilk

    Have you ever thought of buttermilk as being mysterious? Does its mere mention make you shake in your oven mitts, the James Bond theme song playing in your head? 

    Oh wait, maybe it’s just me.

    For years, this humble ingredient has had me stumped.

    What do you do with it? Is it for baking or am I supposed to put it in savory dishes?

    The answer, it turns out, is a simple “yes.”

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