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Today's News

  • Two conditions should precede loan request

    You may have read recently about the dust-up over state unemployment benefits. I thought it was worth taking a minute to let you know why we’re making noise about this issue and why it’s important you do the same.

    In simplest form, our state is running out of money to pay unemployment benefits. Our office has been drawn into the debate because it’s up to us to request a Band-aid loan of sorts so that these checks can continue being issued.

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  • Indian Land name may go on new water tower

    INDIAN LAND – The water tower under construction near Indian Land schools will soon bear the name “Indian Land” if a new plan is accepted by Lancaster County Water and Sewer District commissioners Tuesday.

    Mark Knight, director of the water and sewer district, said he’s come up with a compromise he hopes everyone will be happy with.

    Knight said he received more than 400 names on petitions to add “Indian Land,” “Indian Land High School” or “Home of the Warriors” to the tower’s face.

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  • Trust gets 123-acre easement along Catawba

    Springsteen Properties recently donated a 123-acre conservation easement to the Katawba Valley Land Trust (KVLT), said Derick Close, president of the company.

    The property is located along the Catawba River in Chester County, across from the Cane Creek conservation easement granted to KVLT in 2003 by Springs Industries.

    The easement preserves a mile and a half of river frontage.

    The land consists largely of bottomland hardwoods, replete with towering sycamore, beech, cottonwood and oak trees.

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  • Highway deaths down in S.C. in ’08

    Fewer people died on South Carolina roads in 2008 compared to the year before, though the numbers in Lancaster County stayed the same.

    The S.C. Highway Patrol reports there were 903 highway fatalities in the state last year, a drop from 1,077 fatalities the year before.

    Lance Cpl. Jeff Gaskin said the decrease may be partly due to what troopers believe is an increase in seat-belt usage. He also highlights the Highway Patrol’s continued partnership with other law enforcement groups and the outreach efforts to educate the public on highway-related dangers.

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  • Sheriff makes changes

    There’s a new sheriff in town – and he’s made some changes within his department.

    Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile has named David Belk as chief deputy, or undersheriff, for the department, which has 146 employees.

    Belk, who now works for the State Law Enforcement Division, will assume his new duties Jan. 17, Faile said. He will be ranked as major.

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  • For Tom and Clara Stroud, being together meant everything

    A blue spiral notebook has become one of Myron Stroud’s most cherished possessions.

    Crammed inside the notebook are pages of handwritten notes his mother, Clara Stroud, had written, recording the scores of her grandchildren’s baseball games or detailed lists of family hunting trips. Myron says, if anything, his mother was the most organized person he knew.

    “She was always recording something,” he said, patting the cover with his hand. “She was organized, but I guess we didn’t look at her like that.”

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  • Thomas to chair council

    Lancaster County Council has a new chairman – former vice chairman Fred Thomas.

    Thomas is serving his seventh year on County Council.

    “I’m looking forward to this new role,” Thomas said. “I’m grateful my colleagues placed this confidence in me. I’m looking forward to the next couple of years and doing good things for Lancaster County.”

    Councilman Rudy Carter, who has served as chairman for the last four years, was voted vice chairman at Monday night’s council meeting.

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  • Urgent care center now open here

    INDIAN LAND – Edgewater Medical Center, the first urgent care facility in Indian Land, has opened in 160 Plaza, with a larger branch set to open this summer.

    The practice serves all ages and offers urgent care, family medicine, internal medicine and occupational medicine.

    The partner physicians, Drs. Shashank Mishra, Amir Ansari, Brian Walker and Carla Simon, all share the goal to see as many patients as they can. The four board-certified doctors say they are excited to serve the Indian Land community.

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  • Grant may save foreclosed homes

    A new foreclosures grant is poised to help the Lancaster County housing market.

    As part of an initiative called the Neighborhood Stabilization Program, Lancaster County may soon receive enough money to redevelop several foreclosed homes in the area.

    Developed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and administered by the S.C. State Housing Finance and Development Authority, the program works to acquire and redevelop foreclosed homes so they don’t become a detriment to their surrounding neighborhoods and communities.

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