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  • 'Tis the season for mailing

    You may find that lines at the post office have been getting longer as Christmas nears.

    Monday marked the busiest mailing day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service, with nearly one billion pieces of mail entering the system – up from a daily average of 703 million pieces.

    And today is believed to be the busiest delivery day of the year.

    About 20 million pounds of mail is expected to be delivered to military installations around the world this holiday season.

    Deadlines, deadlines

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  • County hires sound engineer to monitor plant

    A Charlotte firm has been hired by Lancaster County to look into the noise generated by the Blue Dot concrete plant in Indian Land.

    Dr. Noral Stewart of Stewart Acoustical Consultants will be doing the work for the county at a cost of about $17,000, County Administrator Steve Willis said.

    Residents of the Brookchase neighborhood have been complaining over the last several months about excessive noise coming from the concrete plant, which is behind the back yards of Cole Creek Drive residents. Residents say the plant also generates a large amount of dangerous dust.

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  • Goodwill offers advice on making holiday donations

    Goodwill Industries is reminding donors to consider carefully the manner in which they donate used clothing and other household items this holiday season.

    The Charlotte area, like some other areas around the country, is seeing a sudden appearance of unattended collection bins. They are mostly red boxes that ask for "clothing and shoes."

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  • 7 prospects eye former customer service center

    The buildings at Springs Global's Grace Complex may provide jobs once again to county residents.

    Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. President Keith Tunnell said seven projects are looking at the company's former customer service center, which once housed about 600 customer service representatives for the textile giant.

    Those prospects have come from leads from both the state Department of Commerce and the Charlotte Regional Partnership, a 16-county, nonprofit economic development organization based in Charlotte.

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  • Once mighty textile company now employs only a few hundred here

    The once-mighty Springs Industries is just a shadow of itself in Lancaster County.

    For years, the Fort Mill-based company, now called Springs Global, was the largest employer in Lancaster, Chester and York counties, where the company was centered.

    It was also the largest taxpayer in South Carolina.

    At its peak about 20 years ago, the company employed 17,000 people in South Carolina, more people than any other company.

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  • Greater New Hope opens soup kitchen

    It was cold and dreary Saturday morning, but joy seemed to warm the hearts of Greater New Hope Christian Association volunteers when they cut the ribbon to open the Hill area's new soup kitchen.

    Local dignitaries joined Greater New Hope Church members and the Rev. Ronald Cunningham, minister of the church, to open the soup kitchen.

    Opening the soup kitchen was the culmination of five years of work, turning the once "juke joint" location, where alcohol and drugs were sold, into a place of bodily and spiritual nourishment.

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  • School conversion almost complete

    INDIAN LAND – David McDonald, principal at Indian Land Elementary/Middle School, will serve as administrator of two schools when the middle school population begins classes in a new building next semester.

    Crews have been working since the summer to convert the former Indian Land High School to the new middle school. Moving the middle schoolers to a separate building is another way to help deal with the population growth in the Panhandle.

    With nearly 1,300 students, the ILEMS population is the second-largest of any school in Lancaster County School District.

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  • Juvenile drug court threatened due to dwindling grant funds

    There's a threat to a county program that has done some good for Lancaster County teenagers addicted to drugs.

    The Lancaster County Drug Court, a program financed mainly through state and federal grants since its inception in 2003, is facing an all-time success rate but also a funding crunch.

    The grant sources are dwindling each year, making it harder to operate, said drug court coordinator Jeff Phillips.

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  • Perez on mission to help people of his homeland

    Jose Perez's visit to his homeland this holiday season will carry extra meaning.

    Perez, a Lancaster resident, had planned to leave for Tabasco, Mexico, on Saturday night to provide assistance to people there affected by the massive flooding in late October and early November.

    Heavy rains hit Tabasco and Chiapas, leading to the widespread flooding that has affected more than a million people.

    Tabasco and Chiapas are two Mexican states in the southern part of the country.

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  • Justice Department OKs combining polls

    The U.S. Justice Department has given its OK to some precinct consolidations here for the upcoming presidential primaries.

    In the past, the political parties put on the primaries, said Lancaster County election official Cassie Stump. But the state Legislature changed that this year, and now the state Election Commission is responsible for the primaries.

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