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Today's Features

  • When life gives you scraps...make quilts

    Eighty-four-year-old James Hagins is a retired Lancaster resident. He spends his days taking it easy, napping in his recliner when he feels like it. When he lost his wife of 60 years, Peggy, in September of 2012, he found an unusual outlet for his grief – quilting.

    “My mother quilted, and with eight of us children, she definitely had help when she needed it,” he said. “I didn’t mind helping her, and sometimes I was the only one she would let help, because I did things the way that suited her.”

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  • The real deal

     If you can’t make it the mountains to choose and cut your Christmas tree there’s no need to worry – Lancaster County has it covered.

    Papa John’s Christmas Tree Farm, located at 6980 Flat Creek Road in Kershaw, offers six different varieties of trees customers can choose and cut, including Blue Ice, Carolina Sapphire, Eastern Red Cedar, Leyland Cypress, Virginia Pine and White Pine. 

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  • Exercise caution with trees and lights

    Decking the halls for the holidays is a beloved tradition for many families. A home’s exterior festooned with lights help create a festive holiday mood, while stockings hung by the chimney and a Christmas tree in the living room bring that holiday cheer inside.

    Though the holiday season is a festive time of year, it can quickly turn tragic if safety is not emphasized when decorating a home. When decorating this holiday season, be sure to employ the following precautions so your holiday season is festive, decorative and safe:

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  • 100 years strong

    On Thanksgiving Day, Alex Sims turned 100.

     

    The Van Wyck man credits his long life to hard, but satisfying work on his 225-acre farm at the corner of U.S. 521 and S.C. 5. He bought the land after two stints in the U.S. military.

    “It doesn’t matter how much money you make if you like what you’re doing. Keep it up,” said Sims, who cut his own winter firewood with an axe until he was 97. “You have to love your life.”

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  • Enjoy classical music this Sunday

    The familiar sounds of Christmas music in concert seems the perfect way to relax and unwind on a Sunday afternoon.

    The Capital City Brass Quintet will perform at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Olde Presbyterian Cultural Arts Center, 307 W. Gay St., topping off a weekend packed with holiday events.

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  • Tour of Homes

    This Sunday, Dec. 8, the Lancaster Garden Club will sponsor its annual Tour of Homes.

    The tour begins at  2 p.m. and is part of the Red Rose Holiday Tour taking place this weekend, Dec. 6-8.

    Now in its 27th year, the tour will feature three Forest Hills homes and one downtown location, all decorated for the holiday season.

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  • Hargett-Doster Wedding

    Misty Lynn Hargett and Jonathon Ross Doster were married Oct. 26, 2013, at the home of Brian and Stacie Davis in Catawba.
    The bride is the daughter of Robin Hargett of Lancaster and J.R. Hargett of Kershaw. She is the granddaughter of Jeannie B. Gardner of Lancaster, Richard W. Gardner of Catawba, N.C., Suzanne Hargett of Lancaster and the late Lloyd Hargett. She is a 2004 graduate of Buford High School and a 2010 graduate of York Technical College. She works in management at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Rock Hill.

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  • Waldrop-Williams Wedding

    Devin Cole Waldrop and Joey Heyward Williams were married at 4 p.m. Oct. 12, 2013 and Whippoorwill Hill by Pastor Janet Knight.
    The bride is the daughter of Angie Waldrop and Steve and Faynette Waldrop, all of Lancaster. She is the granddaughter of Roy and Jean Harris of Burnsville, N.C., Pamela McManus of Lancaster, Betty Waldrop of Hickory, N.C., and the late William Waldrop Sr. She is a 2010 graduate of Lancaster High School and works for Founders Federal Credit Union.

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  • Barnes-Ebert Engagement

    R. Joseph and Alison B. Barnes of Houston announce the engagement of their daughter, Lindsey Nicole Barnes, to Colby Lee Ebert, both of Greenville.
    The wedding is planned for 6 p.m. May 24, 2014, at Grace Church Downtown in Greenville.

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  • Jolly-Satterfield Engagement

    Clete and Sandi Jolly of Clover announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Elizabeth Jolly of Lancaster, to Christopher Lee Satterfield of Fort Lawn.
    The wedding is planned for 3 p.m. July 5, 2014, at Christian Assembly Worship Center.
    Miss Jolly is the granddaughter of Buddy and Barbara Hopkins and of the late Clarence and Beverly Jolly. She is a 2002 graduate of Westminster Catawba Christian School and a 2006 graduate of Columbia International University. She works for Neebo as a site manager.

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