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The Springs Close Foundation announced grants totaling $580,310 to 22 agencies and organizations helping local citizens who need basic services and emergency aid such as food, medical assistance, shelter and early childhood education.

If you need a new living room suit or kitchen sink and don’t want to pay full retail price, you are in luck! Habitat for Humanity of Lancaster County is planning to open a re-sale store in the near future.
According to Habitat Executive Director Nita Brown, an old building has been donated for the project, and once the building-permit process is completed, remodeling will begin. The re-sale store will be a smaller-scale version of the branded Habitat Re-Store and will be open on restricted days and hours until enough volunteers are found to operate it.

Three men were shot, two fatally, in a drive-by shooting Thursday night at Palmetto Place Apartments on Pardue Street in Lancaster.
A fourth man is now jailed in connection with the case.
Lancaster Police Chief Scott Grant said 36-year-old Courtney Javon McCain turned himself in early Friday morning.
He is charged with one count of accessory after the fact of murder and is awaiting a bond hearing.
Police had been searching for McCain as a person of interest since late Thursday.

Brian Garner
Landmark News Service

Longtime Fort Lawn town councilman and community leader Thomas B. “Joe” Reddick died last Friday at age 81. Colleagues and friends remembered him as a man of integrity who cared deeply about his community.
Fort Lawn Mayor John Rumford served with Reddick when they were both on the board of directors of the Fort Lawn Community Center and again later when both served on Fort Lawn Town Council. Rumford lived up the street from Reddick.