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American Legion Post 250 sign up

The American Legion Post 250 extends the new post charter sign up period by 60 days. Dues are $40 and pays through 2017. For details, contact Post Adjutant William Chick at littlechick@msn.com or (803) 422-9486.

Meet and greet

Join Lancaster County Council from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Historic Courthouse, 100 N. Main St., for a drop-in to meet Lancaster County Economic Development Director Jamie Gilbert. Light refreshments will be served.

Coming Events

Week Ahead

Andy and Ennie Roberts reunion

The Andy and Ennie Roberts reunion is 1 p.m. today at Rich Hill Baptist Church, 1557 E. Doc Garris Road, Heath Springs. Bring a well-filled basket and drink. Utensils and paper products are provided.

Penegar reunion

Church News

Week Ahead

Biker Sunday

New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 2393 New Hope Road, Heath Springs, will hold Biker Sunday at 10 a.m. today. They will meet at 9 a.m. at Lancaster Square (Food Lion parking lot) on North Main Street, and kick up the stands at 9:30 a.m.

Elgin Baptist homecoming

Pageland Highway wreck kills...

A three-vehicle accident on Pageland Highway claimed the life of a Pageland woman, injured another from Kershaw and closed part of the highway for several hours.
Norma Plyler Moree, 69, of 134 Faulkenberry Road, Pageland, was killed in the accident. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday morning.
S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Gary Miller said Moree was following a tractor-trailer west on Pageland Highway at 10:24 a.m. when Heather Marie Rollings, 23, of Kershaw crossed the center line in a pickup traveling east.

Harley runs off road, killing...

A single-motorcycle accident killed a Lancaster man Saturday on Suttle Road, according to S.C. Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Gary Miller.
The Lancaster County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 50-year-old Rodney David Cauthen Sr. of Lancaster. Cauthen was pronounced dead at the scene. Police began their investigation at 4:45 p.m.
Cauthen was traveling east on Suttle Road, near Port Side Road, 2.5 miles south of Lancaster. He drove off the right side of the roadway and struck a manhole, Miller said.

Man loses up to $100K in scam

An 89-year-old Kershaw man over the past nine months withdrew as much as $100,000 from his credit union and sent it to scammers who promised him millions in sweepstakes winnings, according to a sheriff’s report.
The man’s daughter in New Jersey reported the crimes Sept. 7 after discovering during a visit that her father had been sending cash and numerous money orders to recipients overseas and in the United States.

After 30 years of barbecues, VFD...

After saving for 30 years, the McDonald Green Volunteer Fire Department finally raised enough money to add on three new bays, and it moved into the space this month.
The $150,000 construction project began in May, said Fire Chief Butch Ghent, who has been with the station for 36 years.
“We are all so excited,” Ghent said Tuesday. “We have struggled for room and space the last 20 years…. Now that we’ve got it, we feel like we’ve opened up a new world.”

Teen charged with pointing gun...

A Kershaw teen and alleged gang member has been arrested for pulling a gun on two 10-year-old girls just two days after his release on bond for a drug arrest, and now sheriff’s deputies are also looking for another teen for intimidating witnesses to the crime.
Nijel Traleik Wilson, 17, of 6429 Matson St., is charged with two counts of pointing and presenting a firearm, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office report.

Stray cat tortured, 2 players...

Two University of South Carolina Lancaster baseball players were charged with animal mistreatment Thursday after an off-campus incident Sept. 10 that led to the grotesque death of a cat.
Grant Payton Bodison, of Simpsonville, and Joshua Allen Kiser, of Aiken, both 19, turned themselves in to Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office investigators Thursday on one count each of ill treatment of an animal for shooting the cat repeatedly with a BB gun.

$6 million in pledges for school...

A coalition of Lancaster County partners has raised $6 million in local pledges and have applied for an equal amount in federal Promise Neighborhood grants to help kids growing up in the Clinton Elementary attendance zone.
The application deadline, extended from the original Sept. 6 because of severe weather around the country, was Friday.
Sharon Novinger, executive director for Lancaster County Partners for Youth, said she is excited after having completed the application. It took about two weeks to write the 80-page narrative.