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  • Leadership Lancaster expands my circle

    I routinely tease Dean Faile for a comment he seemed to make at each Leadership Lancaster session.

    “This is by far my favorite day of the entire program!” I’m pretty sure I heard him say that at least four times during our six-month program sponsored by the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce.

    When looking back, though, I can see why he was moved to that opinion.

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  • Upgrades at Kershaw bowling alley generate rave reviews

    KERSHAW – The days of scratched lanes, worn-out gutters and paper scorecards are over in Kershaw. 

    The bowling alley at Kershaw Recreation Center at Stevens Park has undergone major renovations that are expected to make it a desired hang-out spot once again. 

    Randy Jordan, who manages the center, said Superior Bowling Service of Columbia was contracted to make the improvements. 

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  • Leadership Lancaster expands my circle

    I routinely tease Dean Faile for a comment he seemed to make at each Leadership Lancaster session.

    “This is by far my favorite day of the entire program!” I’m pretty sure I heard him say that at least four times during our six-month program sponsored by the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce.

    When looking back, though, I can see why he was moved to that opinion.

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  • Revenue credits may help L&C Railroad stay on track

    A pair of county ordinances may soon help upgrade a vital Lancaster & Chester Railroad line, which in turn could help bring new industry to the county. 

    That’s the hope of Lancaster County Economic Development Corp. President Keith Tunnell, who discussed the two L&C ordinances during Lancaster County Council’s May 20 meeting.

    Beginning with the first step in the two-part process, Council looked at amending an ordinance that placed the company into a joint industrial and business park status last December. 

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  • Report: Man hits driver with stick, speeds off running bypass stoplights

    A man reportedly hit a motorist with a stick before speeding off dangerously and running multiple red lights last month. 

    A Lancaster woman said she was at the stop sign where Rugby Drive meets S.C. 9 Bypass just after 1 p.m. May 23, when she saw a man physically fighting with his female passenger, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report. 

    After the assault, the passenger got out the red Honda and began walking toward the bypass. 

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  • Lancaster County Adult Education

    There were 35 beige chairs on the Bundy Auditorium stage inside the University of South Carolina Lancaster’s Bradley Arts and Sciences Building on Wednesday, May 29.
    For the night, one of those chairs belonged to Monica Dye, and rightfully so. The wife and mother of two earned that coveted spot after earning her high school diploma through the Lancaster County Adult Education program. This year, 140 students completed their course work, but only 35 took part in the ceremony.

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  • Lancaster High School

    There was a bit of a last-minute scramble in the past few days before Lancaster High School graduation.
    Until the final grades came in, Marcus Smyre was a clear front-runner for salutatorian; however, last week it was discovered Emily Fitzpatrick, who was ranked No. 3 in the previous grading period, had tied Smyre with a GPA of 4.895 for the No. 2 position.
    “This is the first time in my years of being here that we’ve ever had something like this happen,” said LHS school guidance counselor Eric Byrd.

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  • Indian Land High School

    INDIAN LAND – It’s not that there was an absence of decorum during Indian Land High School’s graduation ceremony on Friday, May 31. There was plenty, and it was moving.
    But forget about a somber, slow “Pomp and Circumstance,” total silence during the processional and rigid adherence to staid commencement traditions under penalty of public humiliation – Indian Land High School’s class of 2013 had a last dance celebration.
    And why not? They had a lot to be happy about.

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  • Carolina Christian Academy

    Each year the senior class at Carolina Christian Academy selects a theme.
    The senior class of 2013, Justin Coy, Krishna Patel and Candice Tate, chose the theme “A Walk to Remember” to lead them throughout the year. That central thought even took precedence at their graduation ceremony.
    The Rev. Gary Underwood, associate pastor at West Monroe (N.C.) Baptist Church even focused on that walk in his commencement address.

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  • Buford High School

    The themes of live, laugh, love and learn were not lost on Buford High School senior class president Hunter Faile.
    Brushing away a few tears, Faile was overwhelmed by the significance of the occasion as she implored her fellow 140 graduates on Friday night to always set their sights high.
    “It has been said we must shoot for the stars because even if we miss, we’ll land on the moon,” Faile said. “We never know where life will take us.”

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