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County Council voted  Tuesday to suspend charitable organization HOPE in Lancaster’s rent payments.  

The issue, brought to full council’s attention by Councilman Rudy Carter and County Administrator Steve Willis, has to do with rent payments HOPE was making on two buildings, the group’s permanent building and its temporary headquarters.

Council voted unanimously to suspend rent for the permanent location while the group is temporarily relocated.

KERSHAW – Town officials are happy about progress being made on the construction of a new  town hall.

Town Administrator Tony Starnes said footings for the 6,000-square-foot building at 113 S. Hampton St, the town’s main drag, have been poured.

The building should be complete in about eight months.

“Surely, we hope to be in it by the end of the year,” Starnes said. “A lot of it depends on the weather.”

Construction will cost about $695,000, Starnes said. P.F. and Perry L. Mungo Inc. of Pageland is doing the work.

INDIAN LAND –  The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office’s newest vehicle is equipped with blue lights, siren and a radio, and emblazoned with a reflective sheriff’s badge.

But instead of a Ford Crown Victoria or the newer Chevrolet Impala, this vehicle is a souped-up golf cart customized and donated by Indian Land’s Plum Quick Motors on Tillman Steen Road.

Carson Steen and his sons, Ricky and Robby, have operated Steen Products since 1981.

After a military career that included stops in more than 80 countries in 25 years, Lancaster native Melinda Woodhurst recently decided to call it quits.

In November, Woodhurst retired from the U.S. Army, in which she achieved the rank of colonel and most recently served as chief of staff for the Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, Va.

The support command handles logistical duties for the Army, such as selecting weaponry and determining where servicemen and women should be placed in the event of base consolidation.