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Mayor Howard’s funeral today

A service celebrating the late Lancaster Mayor John Howard’s life is 2 p.m. today, April 15, at Second Baptist Church, 1426 Great Falls Highway.
The family will receive visitors after the service and at other times at his daughter’s home in Fort Mill.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you consider donating to the Lancaster Promise Neighborhood through the Lancaster County Partners for Youth or the Lancaster County Council of the Arts.
An online guest register is available on the obituaries page at www.burgessfunerals.com.

KLS county track meet Saturday

Lancaster County high school track bragging rights will be at stake April 21 for the 12th annual KLS Running for Ryan track meet at the Lancaster High School track.

Running for Ryan also serves to promote a greater awareness of KLS – Klein Levin Syndrome.

The meet is held in memory of Ryan McKinney, a former Lancaster High School track athlete who died in 2006 of cardiac arrhythmia. 

McKinney, at age 19, died two years following his graduation at Lancaster High School.

IL looks to move on, unify after vote

It’s been 20 days since Indian Land voters chose overwhelmingly not to incorporate.
So, now what?
For one thing, do not expect another incorporation organizing effort any time soon, said John A. Delfausse, vice president and treasurer of pro-incorporation Voters for a Town of Indian Land.
Years down the line perhaps those who opposed incorporation will eventually seek it, he said.
“But I don’t think you’re going see that effort from the group that just completed this exercise.”

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.

Town rallies around Talf

CHARLOTTE – Talf Wrenn, 23, has been a fighter since he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at just three-years-old. The disorder generally affects the voluntary muscles in early childhood, which ultimately placed him in a wheelchair.
On March 27, Wrenn began what his family – parents Will and Meg and siblings Caroline and Hammond – feared would be his last fight. He went to a local doctor for what was treated as a cold, but later that night he stopped breathing. His heart had stopped.

Power outages, damage follow severe thunderstorm

Over 4,000 homes and businesses are without power following a severe thunderstorm that blew through Lancaster County around 3 p.m. Sunday.
As of 6:30 p.m. Sunday, outages included 3,541 with Duke Energy, 552 with Lynches River and 65 with York Electric Co-op.
According to Darren Player, director of Lancaster County Fire Rescue, there seems to be no tornado damage although a tornado warning was issued for the county until 3:15 p.m. Sunday.

Signing day for interns, apprentices

Brian Garner

Landmark News Service

The auditorium was packed as students prepared to sign letters of intent. Representatives of their destinations prepared to add their own names on the dotted line.

This is a familiar routine when it comes to student athletes on signing day, but it’s a new scene for student interns and apprentices.

Column: Cyber-harassment victims need protection, not blame

This is a response to Dianne T. Evans’ March 25 guest column “Foolish stupidity! Do NOT transmit your nude photos!” She was reacting to Rep. Mandy Powers-Norrell’s proposed legislation banning revenge porn.
The world has changed. Our children and grandchildren communicate differently than we did in the past.
We don’t approve of it, obviously, but what consenting adults do on the internet, or through texting, should not be exploited by one party to publicly embarrass and humiliate another person for revenge.

Nurturing rare skills

Becca Brennan, Abe Danaher and Reema Vaidya
Columbia Voice

It’s organized chaos as you walk into Palmetto Strings on Columbia’s Elmwood Avenue.
The small violin-repair shop is bursting with instruments, tools and craftsmanship as owner Gregg Lange emerges from the back room, an instrument in one hand, a tool in the other.

Column: FBI, DOJ now top weapons of the ‘deep state’ Trump bashers

In the early 1970s, political operatives disguised as delivery men broke into a D.C. office to steal information. This break-in was to get information on the political opposition.
We now know this event as Watergate. The media reported on the break-in as the crime, not the information that was gathered.