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Today's News

  • Fourth & Long converts for crown

    The fourth time was the charm for the Fourth & Long flag football team. Fourth & Long, which includes three players with Lancaster ties, won the Carolina Panthers' couch potato black division championship in the NFL team's fifth annual Weekend Warrior Flag Football Championship tournament March 29-30 in Charlotte.

    Games were played at the Panthers' Bank of America Stadium and the team's adjacent practice field. The two-day tournament opened March 29 and concluded the following day when the 2008 champions were crowned in five divisions.

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  • Wall threatens business next to old Belk building

    While Lancaster City Council mulls the fate of the old Belk building site downtown, an adjacent business appears threatened by a wall it once shared with the building.

    The wall still stands but is weak and leaks when it rains, said Kirit Shah, co-owner of the adjacent North-South Wholesale. He said the wall was weakened by the demolition process.

    “We just hope it doesn’t come down,” Shah said, adding that the city had contractors evaluate the wall but has yet to take any action.

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  • Jackets top Vols twice

    Buford completed a non-region baseball sweep of county foe Andrew Jackson, topping the host Vols 10-9 on Wednesday night.

    BHS downed the visiting Vols 10-5 Tuesday.

    Both teams are members of Conference VIII-AA, but the two games are played as non-region games to give the teams a chance to play over the Lancaster County School District's annual spring break.

    On Wednesday at Buford Park, the Jackets held on for the one-run win.

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  • Homeless shelter network looks for a few more churches

    Organizers wanting to start a homeless shelter network among area churches have their sights set on getting a few more churches to commit to move the project forward.

    “Basically, we’ve got all our paper work finished,” said organizer Bill Hutchinson. “We just need to get five more churches on board.”

    Organizers have completed the articles of incorporation and are expecting a tax-exempt charter for the Lancaster County branch of Family Promise, a shelter program whose aim would be to help homeless parents and their children.

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  • Teen faces amputation to save her life

    PAGELAND – Hope.

    These are four letters Pam Gainey hangs onto.

    Next week, she’ll travel to Greenville, where surgeons will remove her right leg, hip and pelvis to save her life.

    Pam, 18, is fighting cancer.

    “Hope is all they’re giving us to depend on,” Pam said. “And, I believe in miracles.”

    As her family gathered for church Sunday, the mood inside their mobile home off Steen Road in Jefferson was tense – only Pam could break it with her brand of humor.

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  • County Council OKs heelsplitter district

    Lancaster County Council gave second approval to regulations dealing with the Carolina heelsplitter, an endangered mussel, Monday.

    The measures passed without discussion. One more reading must pass for the regulations to take effect.

    The heelsplitter, protected under the federal Endangered Species Act, was discovered living in Six Mile Creek in Indian Land in March 2006, during engineering for a Wal-Mart Supercenter at the state line.

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  • Feathered friends visit students at Discovery School

    A few feathered friends landed at Discovery School last week to give students a unique lesson about animal survival.

    Jaimie White, a wild wings educator with the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, brought in five raptors, or birds of prey, on April 4. They included a hawk, a falcon and three different species of owl.

    There were plenty of “oohs” and “aahs” as White let each bird out of its cage. Raptors have sharp talons for grasping prey, and White held each bird with a heavy leather glove to protect her skin.

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  • County to help fund road study

     

    The decision divided County Council, but Lancaster County is chipping in $75,000 for a study of the impact the Dave Lyle Boulevard extension could have on the area.

    Council’s vote was 4-3 to fund it, with Councilmen Jack Estridge, Bryan Vaughn and Wayne Kersey voting against it. York County will fund another $75,000 for the study.

    The Dave Lyle Boulevard extension has been talked about for years, but funding the road project has been an issue.

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  • Vouchers take money away from public schools

    This is in response to Al Simpson's article "Mulvaney supports public education" in the March 23 edition of The Lancaster News.

    Unfortunately, Mr. Simpson, most of the public can see through your attempt to mask the issues. I was raised by a public school teacher who taught in the system for her entire life, and I served as a public school teacher for more than five years before becoming a lawyer.

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  • The Lancaster News wins five LCNI awards

    The Lancaster News advertising staff won three awards and the newsroom won two awards in the Landmark Communication Newspaper Inc. annual advertising and editorial contest held last week in Louisville, Ky.

    The contest was judged by the staff of The Virginian Pilot, the flagship paper of  The Lancaster News’ parent company, Landmark Communications Newspapers Inc.

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