Opinion

MRSA has been in the news a lot lately. It’s been called a “superbug” and has caused panic in some places where cases of it have been reported in public places.

Here in Lancaster County, there have been five reported incidents of MRSA in Lancaster County School District: one at Heath Springs Elementary, two at Buford Middle School, one at Discovery School and one at South Middle School. The school district did the right thing by notifying parents in each incident.

Be thankful. Be patient. Those are the simple words which apply to county high schools following the Lancaster County School Board’s recent decision to build new athletic field houses in the four areas – Andrew Jackson, Buford, Indian Land and Lancaster.

Buford and Andrew Jackson are grateful because those two schools will be getting the first two field houses.

Lancaster and Indian Land high schools will follow.

The first two field houses, which will cost between $600,000 and $700,000, are scheduled to be built in 2008.

The guest column about flip-floping in the Oct. 10 edition of The Lancaster News sure does point out some shaky tightrope walkers. The writer lists a number of specific instances of flip-floping. Seems such stuff only happens to Democrats trying to move into the White House where the rent and utilities come free and you don't have to cut out coupons for groceries.

A Lancaster icon is winding down a storied career. Anasue Love is closing her downtown business which opened in 1946.

The Dianne Shop, which was opened by Love’s mother, Beulah Mae Laney Roddey at Lancaster’s old Greyhound bus station, is closing its doors for good at the end of the month.

"This shop and my family have been my life," Love said.

There's a family tie to the shop's name. The business was named after Love's only daughter, Dianne.

The business has helped girls of all ages prepare for pageants.

Our View: We, too, are eager to see commercial and residential growth in Indian land. But the infrastructure (roads, schools, etc.) is not in place to handle it all.

County Council members did something unheard of Oct. 1. They did not approve a rezoning request for a housing development in Indian Land.

If I could change one thing in the world I would most certainly make people more understanding toward others. I’m shocked by what happened recently in Tennessee.

A shop owner who desperately needed his business property to be zoned as “commercial” killed himself right in front of the City Council who voted against helping him in his time of need.

Immigrants, illegal or not, are people. Although they may come across as leeches to the taxpayers, they, too, are pursuing the American dream.