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Charisse Witherspoon has the chance to witness Barack Obama’s historic swearing in Tuesday, but has chosen to come back to Lancaster in time for the start of classes that day.

Witherspoon, an English and drama teacher at Lancaster High School, is part of a six-member gospel group Promises that is performing during a movie screening today in Washington, D.C.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Goody’s Family Clothing Inc., a retailer of moderately-priced family apparel with a store in Lancaster, is going out of business.

The store has announced a going-out-of-business sale in all 282 stores across 20 states, principally in the Southeast and Midwest.

With a crowd of millions watching, Barack Obama was sworn in Tuesday as the 44th president of the United States.

Lancaster County Council chairman Fred Thomas was watching the inauguration unfold on his television in Lancaster, but was getting a first-hand account from his nephew in Washington, D.C.

Adrian Mood, a senior at Howard University, was one of the millions of people standing at the National Mall. He called his uncle periodically as he watched Obama take the oath of office.

HOPE in Lancaster, a charitable organization known for helping Lancaster County’s needy, will soon receive some assistance of its own.

YouthBuild, a youth program that helps low-income students learn job skills through construction projects, has agreed to build an addition to HOPE’s headquarters at 2008 Pageland Highway.

The program recently received a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that allocated $70,000 towards the construction of a new building or renovation of an existing building for a nonprofit agency in the area.