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  • Steppers competition coming to Heath Springs on Saturday

    Wanda McKinney says her step team is ready to take on all challengers at a local competition this weekend in Heath Springs.

    McKinney, who coaches the Buford Middle School step team, has her squad practicing every day after school in hopes of producing a top showing during the first ever Carolinas Steppers step-off competition, at 4 p.m. Saturday at Heath Springs Elementary School.

    The Buford Middle step team, known as Next Faze, is one of six teams that have registered thus far for the competition, which will benefit the Military Spousal Support Center.

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  • Forum set for 7 p.m. Thursday

    INDIAN LAND – The Indian Land Action Council and Carolina Gateway are teaming up to give voters a chance to question political candidates before the June 10 primaries.

    The candidate forum begins at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Indian Land Middle School gym. Organizers said the forum will be held to 90 minutes. Each candidate will have three to five minutes to introduce themselves before the question and answer session starts, said Indian Land Action Council Secretary Karen Smith.

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  • Walk raises $5,000 for KLS foundation

    Despite the gloomy weather and the lack of famous athletes who were able to make it last year, local volunteers for Kleine-Levin Sydrome awareness and fundraising still saw a nice return on efforts at this year’s walk.

    The second annual Ryan McKinney walk, held March 29 at the Lancaster High School track, raised $5,000 to be sent to the KLS National Foundation for research efforts into the cause and treatment of the neurological disorder, which causes sufferers to sleep up to 20 hours a day with awake hours of confusion, fatigue and irregular eating habits.

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  • Natural gas customers charged twice

    Many natural gas customers in Lancaster County were seeing double on their bank statements last week as a result of an electronic drafting error.

    Officials with Lancaster County Natural Gas Authority say about 3,300 people were charged twice for services this month. The affected customers have payments automatically drawn from their bank accounts each month.

    First Citizens Bank handles those ACH, or automatic clearinghouse, transactions for the gas authority.

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  • State education superintendent pushes reform agenda at meeting

    One of the local Rotary clubs got a visit this week from South Carolina's top education official.

    Dr. Jim Rex, the state's superintendent of education, was Lancaster Rotary's guest speaker at its weekly lunch club meeting, held Thursday at the Lancaster Golf Club's Fairway Room.

    Rex, who has been in office over a year now, revisited his five key areas for reform in South Carolina public education, which are:

    - Greater demand and support for innovation

    - More choice

    - A new accountability system

    - Funding

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  • USCL honors OSPy winners

     

    Opportunity Scholars got folks at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster in the mood for the Beijing Olympics during the program's annual awards lunch Wednesday.

    Students and faculty alike ran into the multi-purpose room at the university's Bradley Arts and Sciences Building waving paper streamer flags to the "Rocky" and Olympic theme songs to kick off the awards lunch, called the OSPy Awards.

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  • Founders planning $20M to $25M headquarters campus near USCL

    Founders Federal Credit Union is planning a campus-style corporate headquarters at Gillsbrook Drive and Plantation Road, the focal point of which will be a 130,000-square-foot corporate center.

    The project, slated to cost between $20 million and $25 million, will initially include the construction of the center and an office-support facility, said Founders chief executive officer Bruce Brumfield. Founders bought nearly 27 acres of land for the project about a month ago.

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  • Lancaster firm to build clock tower monument downtown

    Perception Builders of Lancaster has been approved to build a clock tower monument that will include components of the old timepiece from Springs Industries' Lancaster Plant.

    Council voted unanimously Tuesday to award the contract to Perception, the low bidder for the project, at $278,098.

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  • Beach, Bash and Boogie dance to raise money for First Steps

    Last year it was billed as strictly a shag event, but this year's dance promises to officer a larger selection of music to get more people on the dance floor.

    Lancaster County First Steps' Beach, Bash and Boogie Dance will be held Saturday from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Bradley Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

    Tickets are $35 per person.

    Money from the event will go toward children's books for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program. First Steps Director Lora Bryson considers the dance the organization's largest annual fundraiser.

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  • Three face charges of printing money

    A Lancaster man was arrested Friday after police said he used fake $20 bills at several area restaurants.

    The Lancaster Police Department charged David Rickie Knight Jr., 33, of 2438 Camp Creek Road, with manufacturing and distributing counterfeit money.

    Police responded to several calls about a man driving a burgundy Chevrolet pickup who tried to buy food at the drive-through windows of local restaurants with counterfeit $20 bills.

    An officer later saw Knight, the driver of the truck, give a clerk at Chick-Fil-A a $20 bill for food.

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