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  • Kershaw mayor, two council members, town attorney resign

    KERSHAW –  Kershaw Mayor Tommy Baker and two council members resigned from Town Council on Monday, but they gave no reason for their decision.

    Town’s Attorney Robert “Bob” Davis followed their lead, resigning after Town Council met for its regular April meeting Monday.

    The meeting went on as scheduled, despite the absence of Baker, his mother, Councilwoman Rose Marie Baker, and Councilman Lewis “Jabo” Sims, who also resigned their seats.

    The Bakers and Sims resigned before the meeting and did not attend it.

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  • Continental Tire opens $11M facility

    INDIAN LAND – Business owners and county officials were on hand Thursday morning for the opening of Continental Tire’s new Indian Land headquarters.

    More than 75 guests gathered at Continental’s new 75,000-square foot building as Matthias Schoenberg, Continental Tire North America’s chief executive officer, dedicated the facility. Located inside MacMillan Business Park, the facility will house Continental’s passenger and light truck tire group and its commercial tire group.

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  • Last blast of winter may be on the way

    After several days of spring weather, cold temperatures are expected to return to Lancaster County at the beginning of the week.

    According to the National Weather Service, temperatures will drop early Monday as rain showers sweep across the area. Monday night’s low will be about  32 degrees.

    Tuesday’s high is forecast at 55 degrees. It will be partly cloudy and cold Tuesday night, with a low of 30.

     

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  • Planners OK rezoning for gold mine

    Romarco Minerals Inc. received initial approval to rezone its Haile Gold Mine property at last week’s Lancaster County Planning Commission meeting.

    County Planner Elaine Boone presented an application for the proposed rezoning of the mine, from an R-45A, a residential district, to I-2, an industrial district.

    This would change the property from a rural-residential intense agricultural district to a heavy industrial district, which would allow the mine to continue its operations on all of its property.

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  • Conservation district announces winners of poster, other contests

    The Lancaster Soil and Water Conservation District has announced winners of its 2008 Conservation Contests.

    Contests were for students in grades K-12 for posters, bulletin boards, multi-media and photos.  The theme was “Water is Life.”

    The poster and bulletin board contests were judged on conservation message, visual effectiveness, imagination, creativity and clarity.

    Poster contest          

    Kindergarten and first grade

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  • Partners for Youth awards $190,000 in grants

    The Lancaster County Partners for Youth Foundation has awarded $190,000 in grants this year to groups that sponsor programs to directly assist the local youth.

    Most of the 14 recipients have received funding from the foundation before, although the specific program sponsored may be different, said Sharon Novinger, Partners for Youth’s executive director.

    Grant amounts this year range from $4,000 to $85,000.

    Since 2000, Partners for Youth has awarded more than $1.5 million in community grant funding.

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  • School, community mourn child’s death

    Olivia Pettit is being remembered as the sweet little girl who always smiled and encouraged others to do their best.

    North Elementary School Principal Linda Blackwell named a long list of qualities when thinking about Pettit, a 9-year-old fourth-grader who died Sunday afternoon at Springs Memorial Hospital.

    Blackwell said the faculty and students are taking Pettit’s untimely death pretty hard.

    “It was very shocking,” Blackwell said. “We are very said for the Pettits and sad for the school family.”

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  • Pardue Street barricades to come down

    The barricades that block one of the entrances to Pardue Street Apartments have been viewed as a gift and a curse.

    Residents of the apartment complex say the barricades on the northern end are an eyesore and detract from the quality of life there.

    Lancaster City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to remove the barricades, which had been in place since 2005.

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  • 2 face charges in burglary spree

    Two people have been charged in a burglary spree of several businesses, mainly in the southern part of Lancaster County.

    The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office has charged Matthew Allen Crook, 21, of 3174 Spirit Road, and Christopher Dale Robertson, 22, of 427 Sunnybrook Lane.

    They face second-degree burglary charges in connection with break-ins at Side Tracks restaurant in the Elgin area, 522 Grill, L&L Hunt Club, Carotron and Elgin Feed and Seed.

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  • Firefighters, others make their mark on local history

    Lancaster Fire Department Chief Chris Nunnery remembers getting the early morning call about the fire at the Lancaster County Courthouse last August.

    He hoped it would be just a small fire, like the one started by a homemade fire bomb a few years earlier.

    “When I heard, ‘Heavy smoke showing,’ it was just a sickening feeling,” Nunnery said.

    Nunnery said since he was a child, one of the most memorable landmarks in Lancaster was the courthouse, with the statue of the Confederate soldier out front.

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