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Fire destroys Kershaw home

A Kershaw home is a total loss after a fire tore through it during the early morning hours of Sunday, March 2.

Sheriff’s deputies and members of the Flat Creek, Kershaw and Rich Hill volunteer fire departments responded at 1:16 a.m. to a house fire in the 3700 block of Meadowview Road, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report. 

Mulvaney missed mark on economy

I appreciate the hard work that U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney provides in Washington on behalf of the citizens of South Carolina and I believe that he is earnest  in his views of what it takes to be successful in today’s world.

However, I take exception with some of his views in his recent column in the Feb. 9 edition of The Lancaster News, “Why people don’t like politicians.”

Arson a possibility in house fire

A few spots of melted wax and a suspicious blaze that burned the outside of a Lancaster home on Saturday, Feb. 22, have sheriff’s investigators looking at a possible arson. 

Crenshaw to lead young LHS...

The Lancaster High School baseball team sports its share of new faces as the Bruins launch their 2014 season.

The newest face is first-year head coach Paul Crenshaw, who has a young squad in his first spring guiding the LHS squad.

The 2013 Bruins, who finished 10-12 and earned a Class AAAA Upper State playoff berth, were a senior team.

The 2014 team has only six seniors and few returnees.

Bruins’ Evans 4th in state title...

 

 

ANDERSON – Lancaster High’s Quinshun “Bubba” Evans fell short of his goal of becoming Lancaster High’s  second South Carolina state wrestling champion on Saturday, March 1 in the Anderson Civic Center.

IL nets 3 upstate crowns

The Indian Land Warriors posted an impressive mat showing in the Class A-AA Upper State tournament at Liberty High School over the weekend, Feb. 21-22.

The Warriors, who took eight wrestlers to the Upstate tourney, captured three weight classes in the two-day event.

IL advanced six wrestlers, with the trio of Dalen Byerley, Devin Curtsinger and Eric Komorous leading the way with each capturing an individual Class A-AA Upstate crown.

AJ girls Upstate champs

 

GREENVILLE – Andrew Jackson, for the large part, has hitched its impressive playoff run to senior guard Dareisha Sowell and she’s responded in thoroughbred fashion.

Free voter workshop set for...

City of Lancaster Councilwoman Tamara Green Garris invites the community to a free, voter ID workshop 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6, at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, 133 Pleasant Hill St. 

The workshop is to inform voters of their responsibilities as “educated voters,” she said.

Fairfield County Sheriff’s...

The Fairfield County Sheriff's Office has recently received numerous calls from concerned citizens in the Ridgeway and Lake Wateree areas who received an emergency notification via a telephone automated message stating someone had escaped from the S.C. Department of Corrections and could possibly be in the area.

“Additionally, these citizens were warned to stay inside of their homes due to the nature of the escapee,” said Fairfield County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Brad Douglas.

How do you mend a broken heart?

Kaisha Young

For The Lancaster News

One girl is popular and comes from an affluent family. One girl is reserved and comes from a middle class family.

Both give no indications that anything’s wrong, even though they are both harboring heinous secrets.

Both are victims of teen dating violence.

School district youth/peer counselors Deborah Boulware and Sarah Woodring know this tale all too well after hearing it time and time again.