Today's News

HEATH SPRINGS – State environmental workers on Thursday used heavy plastic to seal up a construction dumpster holding toxic asbestos from the demolition of a burned-out convenience store on Main Street.
The dumpster has been there since January, packed with asbestos-laced debris, and traces of the cancer-causing substance have been found on the ground around it, said Tommy Crosby, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.

A house on Golf Course Road buzzed with construction noises Wednesday as a team from Lancaster’s Salkehatchie program got to work on repairs.
Volunteers spread throughout the property, from the yard to the kitchen to the roof.
“We’re helping the community all we can,” said David Hagins, stepping aside from the entrance to the house where building materials and tools were scattered across the ground.
Hagins and his wife, Susan, have been running Lancaster’s Salkehatchie program for 15 years, since it was first established.

For construction workers at Lancaster High School, this week’s scorching heat means longer workdays, protracted breaks, mountains of empty plastic water bottles and impromptu gatherings in the shade.
“You drink plenty of water and try to stay out of it as much as you possibly can,” said brick mason Londell Alston, as he spread a layer of mortar for a row of bricks on the façade of the new LHS multipurpose building.

Civil engineers have projected the cost of remodeling and expanding the Indian Land Recreation Center on U.S. 521 at $4.3 million, about $200,000 less than anticipated.
The money would come from an $11 million bond referendum that voters could consider in November’s general election if Lancaster County Council approves three readings to have it added to the ballot. First reading of the referendum ordinance passed unanimously June 11.