Local News

KERSHAW – It’s election time in the town of Kershaw.

Three seats are up for grabs in the election, which will be held March 17.

Two incumbent council members, District 4 representative Harold Williams and District 3 representative Mark Dorman, chose not to seek reelection.

Pat Catoe and Morris Russell are running for Williams’ seat. Russell serves as director of Lancaster County Emergency Management.

Randy Seegars and John S. “Jody” Connell have filed for Dorman’s seat.

Three months after becoming executive director of Habitat for Humanity’s Lancaster office, Traci Watterson is confident in the organization’s new direction.

Watterson, 34, a lifelong Lancaster resident who became the executive director on Nov. 1, immediately immersed herself in the organization’s initiatives and inner-workings, looking for ways to make the group more efficient and better known in the community. Along with help from Habitat’s national office, she has been busy revamping the local organization.

A recently developed committee will play a role in determining the focus and fate of See Lancaster, the group that promotes tourism throughout the county.

A 10-member task force has been discussing See Lancaster’s aim and ways to make the group more effective and valuable.

The idea of the task force was suggested by Jay Rainey and Eric Rowell, who both serve on See Lancaster’s board of directors. The task force held its first meeting last month.

According to Lancaster Police Department reports:

– A Kershaw man was charged with child endangerment and driving under the influence after a traffic stop on Feb. 2.

Theodore Billy Humphries Jr., 38, 5169 Bethune Road, was charged with second offense DUI, child endangerment and open container.

According to the report, an officer saw a car weaving in and out of lanes on S.C. 9 Bypass. The officer stopped the car just south of the S.C. 9 overpass. The officer saw a backseat passenger put on her seat belt as he approached the car, the report said.