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Today's News

  • History in the making

    The newly restored historic Lancaster Courthouse is getting a face-lift of another kind outside. 

    The Lancaster Council of Garden Clubs (LCGC) is coordinating an ongoing project to plant and maintain a flower garden at the courthouse’s rear entrance, which faces the Catawba Street courtyard. 

    This is no ordinary flower garden. The garden will showcase local and state plants, as well as provide a habitat for birds and butterflies. The garden will also include historic components to provide a community learning experience. 

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  • Orange prevails in AJ spring game

     

       

    KERSHAW – The Orange prevailed in the annual Andrew Jackson High School spring football game on Friday afternoon at Volunteer Stadium.

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  • Warriors score early, down Broome

    The Indian Land Warriors’ soccer strategy worked like a charm.

    IL, 19-4, bolted to a 3-0 halftime lead on the way to a 3-2 win over Broome on Thursday night.

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  • Central wins Upstate title

     

       

    BUFORD – The Central Lady Eagles’ 2011 Friday 13th was about monster wins.

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  • Lancers go 1-2 in Region X tournament

     

       

    The University of South Carolina Lancaster Lancers went 1-2 in the Region X baseball tournament at the Burlington Royals Stadium in Burlington, N.C.

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  • Buford educator Corbett Carnes was ‘big as life’

    American psychiatrist Karl Menninger once said, “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.”

    No one knows that better than long-time residents of eastern Lancaster County whose lives were touched by the late Corbett Carnes.

    A former Buford High School teacher, Tradesville farmer and active community leader, Carnes died Thursday. He was 99 years old.

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  • County officials bang gavel at new courthouse

    That was how S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal summed up the county’s new courthouse building Thursday afternoon. 

    Toal joined several local and state leaders, as well as architects, engineers and contractors, for the building’s unofficial grand opening. 

    “It is functional and fitting and right and not over the top,” Toal said from the back steps of the new building, as she looked out onto a crowd of more than 100 people, many of whom had a hand in creating the building. 

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  • Fire claims Lancaster Home

    Local firefighters believe a fire at a home on Oakwood Avenue in Lancaster Friday morning began in the kitchen.

    Lancaster County Fire Marshal Stephen Blackwelder said firefighters from four area fire departments responded to the fire shortly after 10.

    “We believe they left something on the stove,” Blackwelder said. “When we got there it was well involved; the kitchen was all involved and it had burned a hole in the roof over the stove.

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  • Monkey/fudge cartoon garners national award

    An Indian Land Middle School 8th-grader has won first prize in a national cartoon contest geared toward teaching youth about the Bill of Rights.

    Hayley Schmelzer, 13, was a first-prize winner in the second annual Nationwide Bill of Rights – First Amendment Cartoon Contest sponsored by the California Administrative Office of the Courts and The Constitutional Rights Foundation. 

    Hayley’s submission, one of 1,315 submitted this year, won first prize in the Middle School Comic Strip category.

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  • Car flips over, clips utility pole

    Police are searching for the driver of a car that flipped over May 7 and clipped a utility pole. 

    While on patrol about 8:45 p.m. May 7, two Lancaster Police Department officers heard what sounded like a transformer exploding, according to an incident report. The officers heard a second bang a few moments before lights on South Catawba and West Arch streets went out. 

    As they searched for the source, the officers found a green 1997 Buick LeSabre  overturned at the intersection of Elm and South Catawba streets. 

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