Today's News

You'll likely feel the warmest you have all year this week, as a heat wave continues in the area.

After a cooler than normal early spring, it will feel like mid-summer the rest of the week with steamy temperatures hitting the 90s.

Today's high will reach 93 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, and it will be even warmer on Thursday, with highs in the mid 90s.

Friday through Sunday, the highs each day are forecast to be in the low 90s.

Chingy-ching, chingy-ching.

Hundreds of dangling gold coins ring out as Ashley Pate, with her arms outstretched and her hands in cutsie pose, swings her hips in a tight Egyptian shimmy, then a low American cabaret.

As the exotic drums beat, she moves on to Nile hands and snake arms, then traveling Arabics and Baladies.

It's Raks Sharki, Arabic for "dance of the orient," and Pate's practicing the techniques taught in the beginner belly dance class at Springdale Recreation Center.

KERSHAW – Kershaw Town Council gave unanimous final approval to the town's 2008-09 budget Monday night with no discussion.

Council discussed the budget at its regular meeting on May 12 after Town Administrator Tony Starnes presented it.

Mayor Tommy Baker praised Starnes for slashing the proposed budget. The approved budget ($2,881,710 ) reflects a nearly 2 percent decrease over last year's budget.

"He (Starnes) has reduced expenses for the town of Kershaw," Baker said at the May 12 meeting.

In Bruce Miller’s May 30th column “Candidates should go extra mile for their constituents,” it seems as though he should have been a staff writer for The Lancaster News – not a guest columnist. He’s had several columns in the paper, as well as the Carolina Gateway, lately. However, I felt the most recent article is one that warrants a response from a lifelong Lancaster County resident.

In his article, Mr. Miller makes a very bold statement by saying he and Donald Huffman are the only candidates running for House District 45.