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Garris: We must listen to...

Tamara Green Garris is fiercely proud of her hometown, and says she’s running for mayor to continue moving it forward.
“I’m native born in Lancaster – raised and reared,” the 44-year-old mayor pro tem said Thursday. “I grew up in the district I represent.
“I won’t be the kind of mayor that will only show up on Tuesday or at budget meetings,” she said. “I will go out and touch citizens by working with them and listening to them.”

SCDOT recognizes National Work...

S.C. Department of Transportation

The S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is recognizing National Work Zone Awareness Week in conjunction with state transportation departments across the nation.
National Work Zone Awareness Week started April 9. The recognition is held at this time each year to bring attention to motorists and highway workers, who are both at risk in work zones when safety is not practiced.
SCDOT has launched a year-long work-zone safety campaign called “Let ’Em Work, Let ’Em Live.”

Native American Studies Center...

USC Lancaster

USC Lancaster’s Native American Studies Center has received a $10,000 donation from OceanaGold/Haile Operation, which will sponsor four speakers for the monthly Lunch and Learn programs, held the third Friday of each month in the center’s galleries.  
The four Lunch and Learn programs include:
◆ April 20: Dr. Katherine Osburn, Arizona State University, “The ‘Identified Full-Bloods’ in Mississippi: Race and Choctaw Identity, 1898-1918.”

Needed: 45 more voting machines

Lancaster County is short 45 voting machines of the required number required by state law, and there’s not much the county can do about it.
“The election commission is an unfunded mandate,” said Rick Crimminger, Lancaster County Election Commission chairman. “The state says we got to have it, but doesn’t fund it. When you have this kind of growth, you got to deal with it.
“It used to be 35,000 registered voters in the county and now it’s up to 58,000,” he said.

‘Death Ahoy’ – Murder mystery on...

Folks in Lancaster will have a chance to try their hand at being detectives Thursday as part of an evening of entertainment with “Death Ahoy,” an audience-interactive investigation into the mysterious death of Sunny Sails, cruise director on the good ship “Legendary Carnival.”
Each audience member will become part of an investigative team and work with the chief detective to question suspects and help figure out “whodunit.” Cast members of the Charlotte Murder Mystery Company portray the chief detective and suspects.

Lady Vols focused on soccer run

Nathan Lowery

For The Lancaster News

KERSHAW – The Andrew Jackson High girls’ soccer team has four seniors, a seasoned coach and solid hope for the season.

“We have a great group of girls on this team,” said AJ girls soccer coach Lee Hanna. “We have a very versatile group of players.”

So far, the Lady Vols are 4-7 this spring, including a 2-0 mark in Region IV-AA play.

Boyfriend sentenced in Jacarion’...

Eight months after he left a loaded pistol near 2-year-old Jacarion Gladden and left the room, Shazeem Tyrell Hayes was sentenced Friday to 8½ years in prison in the toddler’s accidental shooting death.
Hayes, 19, pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun by a person convicted of a violent crime and unlawful conduct toward a child.
Circuit Judge Brian Gibbons sentenced Hayes to the maximum five-year term on the gun charge and an additional 3½ years on the unlawful-conduct charge. The maximum sentence on that count was 10 years.

Super Stock Shootout set for...

Lancaster Motor Speedway returns to racing action Saturday with the Faith Funderburke Realty Super Stock Shootout headlining track action.

Action last week was rained out, but the forecast calls for good weather this week at the half-mile dirt track.

The Funderburke shootout will pay $1,500 to the winner, $650 for second place, $325 for third place, $200 for fourth place and $150 for fifth place, with $50 to start the main event.

Bright Light Baptist offers...

The women’s ministry of Bright Light Baptist Church of Heath Springs is hosting a free survivor-themed conference from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 21.
“This conference is to let women know we are all survivors of something,” said Bright Light Baptist spokeswoman and deaconess Beverly Cunningham. “And through God, all things are possible if we just have faith.”

NYC officials relocate statue...

The Central Park statue of Dr. J. Marion Sims has been relocated because of the controversy over his medical experiments on enslaved women in the mid-1800s.
According to The New York Times, New York City’s Public Design Commission voted unanimously to move the statue to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, where Sims is buried.
Protesters last August demanded the removal of the statue, which honors one of Lancaster’s most famous native sons. Sims is often referred to as “the father of gynecology.”