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Today's News

  • Coaches reschedule games canceled due to winter storm

    As Lancaster County high school winter sports teams return to play this week, the schedules, which were frozen for the better part of last week with the winter storm’s impact, are beginning to take shape with make-up dates for prep basketball and wrestling.

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  • Cousins earn their Eagle Scout badges

    VAN WYCK – In many ways, 18-year-old cousins Dimitri Anthony and Quamaine Hayden of Van Wyck are different as night and day, according to those who know them.
    Anthony, for example, is athletic, a former member of the Indian Land High School football team with a reserved personality who’s on his way toward a career in computer engineering at Benedict College in Columbia.
    Hayden, on the other hand, is more academic, a senior at ILHS who is outgoing and dreams of earning a degree at Bowie State University and becoming a corporate lawyer.

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  • Snow where to go

    This week's winter storm shut down most of Lancaster County. Here is a little look at what your neighbors have been up to.

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  • Winter storm ices play

     

       

    The lingering impact of the winter storm, which hit early Monday morning, has put the Lancaster County winter sports schedule on ice this week.

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  • BMS gains revenge with tourney crown

     

       

    In a rematch, the Buford Middle School wrestling team gained its mat revenge.

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  • Slow thaw

    Crews have been working all week cleaning up area roads after the winter storm dumped several inches of snow on the county Monday.
    County Administrator Steve Willis said as of Thursday, conditions on major highways have finally cleared up, though ice and snow remain on many secondary roads in the county.

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  • When will students make up snow days?

    Like the old saying goes, nothing in life is free.
    For Lancaster County students, that means snow days.
    As of press time Thursday, Lancaster County School District students had missed three days of school this week due to icy road conditions, not including Monday, which was a scheduled teacher’s work day.
    School officials said to meet the state-mandated 180 day school year, students will have to start making up days next month.

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  • When will all the snow and ice finally melt?

    Lancaster resident Tracey Mobley wasn’t interested in playing in the snow this week.
    While many locals had snow fights and built snowmen, Mobley looked on from her window. And when that fluffy snow turned to slippery ice, that gave her more incentive to stay inside.
    Temperatures in Lancaster Country have barely crept above freezing this week, meaning snow and ice have melted slowly during the day before temperatures dropped at night.
    So, when will all the ice thaw?

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  • How to file an insurance claim after winter storm

    S.C. Insurance News Service
    COLUMBIA – Snow and ice from Monday’s winter storm were a factor in about 2,000 auto accidents across South Carolina through Tuesday, according to the state Highway Patrol.
    “Icy conditions also may pose a threat to homes and businesses,” said Russ Dubisky, executive director of the S.C. Insurance News Service.
    For car owners who have experienced damage, the S.C. Insurance News Service offers the following tips on how to file an insurance claim:

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  • Katawba Valley Land Trust names director

    Dr. Barry Beasley is the new executive director of the Lancaster-based Katawba Valley Land Trust.
    Beasley succeeds Dr. Austin Jenkins as director of the trust. Jenkins left the post in August to begin teaching at the university level.
    “We are indeed fortunate to have found such a well-qualified and gifted individual to lead us into the future,” said Lindsay Pettus, president of the land trust. “We are excited to expand our efforts to protect natural and cultural resources and to share our story with the communities we serve.”

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