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Today's News

  • One Stop Shop Hop

    With our tough economic times, it’s great to fall back on your favorite hobbies to take your mind off the real world for just a little while. 

    If you’re handy with a needle and thread, or would like to begin learn about sewing, the Lancaster One Stop Shop Hop is for you. 

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  • BHS students try foods studied in biology class

    If you’re squeamish at all, be glad that you missed the Jan. 30 activities in Juline Wieland’s advanced placement biology class.

    Wieland, who teaches at Buford High School, decided to let her students cook and eat the plants and animals they had been studying in a recent unit. This was a way to connect what they learned in their textbook with a real-life application.

    But it wasn’t everyday beef, green beans or carrots the students sampled. Nope, they sampled ants, caterpillars, Brussels sprouts and chicken liver.

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  • Mother, son face burglary charges

    A mother and son from Lancaster have been charged with a burglary at Dixie Food Mart.

    Valerie Lynn Dunn, 36, and Ronnie James Dunn, 17, both of 411 Gills Creek Drive, have been charged with second-degree burglary.

    According to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the store owner reported that someone had taken a briefcase holding cash, tax documents and other items from the store. The store owner said the briefcase was in his office on Feb. 4 and he noticed it missing about noon Feb. 6.

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  • Sheriff's office to continue to police Kershaw

    KERSHAW – The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office will continue to provide law enforcement coverage for the town of Kershaw.

    Kershaw Town Council met Feb. 5 to discuss a contract with the sheriff’s office, which has provided law enforcement for the town since 2001 when the town police department was disbanded.

    Sheriff Barry Faile, Undersheriff David Belk and sheriff’s office attorney Tom Holland presented information to council members.

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  • ArrowPointe offering $500 scholarships to members

    Tuition, books and possible room and board.

    The list goes on and on for the increasing costs of a college education.  

    To help with a portion of these concerns, while recognizing students’ academic excellence, ArrowPointe Federal Credit Union is announcing a scholarship program to award eight $500 scholarships for members seeking higher education.    

    Each scholarship is awarded based on the students’ academic efforts, character and community involvement.  

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  • Community Foundation awards $10,250 in grants to local agencies

    More than $10,000 was awarded in the first round of grants to benefit local service groups.

    In January, the Lancaster County Community Foundation announced that it had set up a special fund to assist nonprofit agencies in Lancaster County that offer aid to residents.

    Money for the fund was generated through donations from individuals, businesses and other groups in the community.

    The first cycle brought in $10,250, said Jodie Plyler, the foundation’s board chairwoman.

    Four groups applied for the funding during that cycle.

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  • Closing the Achievement Gap group to hold summit at USCL

    The Closing the Achievement Gap Committee will be sponsoring the 2009 Community Education Summit at 6 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Bundy Auditorium at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

    The summit is open to parents, interested residents and youth groups. Admission is free.

    Award-winning author Dr. Mychal Wynn will be the keynote speaker. Wynn will speak about teaching, parenting, mentoring and what can done to help close the achievement disparities between whites and minority students.

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  • Finances focus of school board planning meet

    A measure to show support for a local university and ways to cut costs were some of the items Lancaster County School District officials discussed at their planning meeting, which was Feb. 6-7.

    The annual meeting allows school board members, the superintendent and other district level staff a chance to assess the current school year, review district procedures and plan for 2009-10.

    With the downward economy, budget talks naturally dominated portions of the meeting.

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  • U.S. 521 to get another stoplight

    INDIAN LAND – A new traffic light will soon be installed at an Indian Land intersection.

    Residents have clamored for a light at the intersection of U.S. 521 and Jim Wilson Road ever since construction began there on several commercial properties.

    The area now features a CVS drug store, BB&T bank, Wendy’s and the new library, with a Harris Teeter grocery store expected to open this spring.

    And as traffic has increased, so have the number of car accidents, as residents have been forced to dart across several lanes of traffic.

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