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Although many people associate the holiday season with happiness, for others it is a time of sadness as families mourn the loss of a child.

On Sunday, local families may participate in a worldwide candle lighting to remember children who have died. U.S. Congress has designated the day as a national memorial day to remember these children. The observance started small on the Internet about 10 years ago, but has grown into a worldwide event.

Four Lancaster men have been jailed for stealing copper from the L&C Railway on South Main Street last week.

A Lancaster police officer was patrolling the area when he saw that one side of the chain link fence had been cut, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

He later watched L&C Railway's surveillance video tape that showed the fence being cut two times around 1 a.m. Thursday.

Perseverance. Determination. Faith and hope.

If it weren't for those things, Marion Blumenthal Lazan says she and her family wouldn't have survived the German Holocaust.

They were among the millions of Jews who were targets of extermination by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II. About 6 million European Jews and 5 million others were killed during that time span.

Lazan survived the horrid Nazi concentration camps and was able to flee to the United States.

County Council has given County Administrator Steve Willis the authority to hire a sound engineer to monitor noise from the Blue Dot concrete plant in Indian Land.

Blue Dot is in 521 Perimeter Business Park next to the Brookchase subdivision. The business park, zoned for light industrial businesses, was already established when Brookchase was approved.

Residents of Brookchase and now Lakeview Landing, about a mile from the business park, are concerned about the noise and dust generated by Blue Dot.