Today's Features

During summer months, days are longer and more people are outside for longer periods of time, increasing the health risks from heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun.
Each year, more Americans on average die from heat waves than from any other natural disaster.
And every hour, one person dies from skin cancer, which is the most common occurring cancer in the Unied States.
Staying cool
To avoid heat exhaustion and overexposure to the sun, follow these steps to stay cool and safe this summer:

Within the next couple of months, Robert Truesdale’s “office” will be empty.

That office is the seed counter in Ace Hardware and Garden Center of Lancaster, where Truesdale has weighed out seed of every kind and shape in the last 54 years. Truesdale, now a part time “feed and seed store” employee, will soon weigh out his last bag for one of the farmers who stop by to trade hearty stories and conversation.

That’s because Lancaster is losing one of its oldest businesses. 

Within the next couple of months, Robert Truesdale’s “office” will be empty.

That office is the seed counter in Ace Hardware and Garden Center of Lancaster, where Truesdale has weighed out seed of every kind and shape in the last 54 years. Truesdale, now a part time “feed and seed store” employee, will soon weigh out his last bag for one of the farmers who stop by to trade hearty stories and conversation.

That’s because Lancaster is losing one of its oldest businesses. 

Mosquitoes have been around for thousands, maybe millions, of years.

And these winged blood suckers have no intention of taking off this summer.

With the pop-up thunderstorm season now in full swing, it doesn’t take much to create a mosquito nuisance, said Sue Ferguson, an environmental health manager for S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

That’s where a little routine yard sprucing-up comes in.