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Jesef Williams

jwilliams@thelancasternews.com

Two men will vie for the City Council seat vacated last month by Preston Blackmon’s death.

Blackmon, who was 82, had served as the District 1 councilman for 31 years.

His son, Racarda Blackmon, and Kenneth Hood are running for the seat.

Because of Blackmon’s death, a special District 1 filing period started Aug. 22 and ended Thursday.

The winner will serve the remainder of Blackmon’s term, which has about two years left.

Chris McGinn

For The Lancaster News

Despite moving an entire school’s worth of students out of the building in January, Indian Land Elementary School remains above capacity, with 1,085 students as of Aug. 26, with more enrolling daily.

Each of Indian Land’s schools increased in enrollment this month, with students moving in from nearby school districts and distant states, such as North Dakota and New York.

Jesef Williams

jwilliams@thelancasternews.com

A 2-year-old boy was hit by a sport utility vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot Friday night.

Lancaster police say Dana Michelle Sullivan, 26, of Kershaw, hit the boy about 7 p.m. while driving her 2006 Honda Pilot down one of the aisles in front of the supercenter.

The boy was with his grandfather, James Lee Johnson of Lancaster. The two were putting away a shopping cart when the boy got away and darted across an aisle toward their vehicle, said Lancaster Police Department Sgt. Brian Small.

Recently, and, it appears, belatedly, the Kershaw Historical Society and other preservation-minded community members mounted an effort to convince municipal authorities to reconsider making the former Bank of Kershaw building into the new town hall.

While we appreciate that two years of study and planning have gone into this project and that the mayor, town administrator and council members may have become tired of delays and are now eager for real construction to begin, we asked them to pause long enough to deliberate on what might be best for Kershaw.