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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. 

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.

If you live in the country, you may be hearing a noise right now you just can’t explain.
That’s not some huge industrial machine humming miles away and it’s not your imagination gone wild. There’s nothing wrong with your hearing.
It’s the return of the 13-year cicadas, which have re-emerged from underground to mate.   
Jane Massey of Van Wyck has already seen more than her share of these fearful-looking, red-eyed insects flitting about.

Lancaster High capped its 2010-11 athletic year, honoring the LHS spring sports standouts in the school’s auditorium on Wednesday.

Bruins’ stars in varsity and junior varsity spring sports were honored at the event sponsored by the LHS Bruins Booster Club.