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Donate now for wreaths to honor...

KERSHAW – Local resident Gary Sowell volunteers for the annual Wreath Across America effort to honor the 500-plus veterans buried in the Kershaw City Cemetery.
“Anything we do is a drop in the bucket to what they did for us. We can’t even come close,” said Sowell.
The annual holiday wreath-laying ceremony is part of a nationwide observance to salute and remember veterans, as well as prisoners of war and those still missing in action.

IL’s Yarborough ‘team-first’...

INDIAN LAND – To say Indian Land High School senior offensive lineman Nick Yarborough is a “good teammate,” is akin to an arrow in the bull’s eye.
Warriors head coach Horatio Blades is on target as well.
“No doubt about it, you would like to have more players like Nick,” Blades said. “Nick is all about the team and he will be there for his team.
“Give me more Nick Yarboroughs,” Blades said.
Yarborough said it’s a simple approach.

Letter: Vote ‘In Favor’ on rec...

I voted last week – a privilege granted to those of us of a certain vintage and others with challenges that prevent them from voting on Nov. 6.
And I voted enthusiastically “In Favor” of the $19 million bond referendum that is on the ballot.

New Comporium store shows how...

After more than a decade at its University Place shopping center location in Lancaster, Comporium Communications has moved around the corner into the old Blockbuster Video building facing the bypass.
Chief Operating Officer Matthew Dosch said the move is part of a new retail template the company is rolling out and the new location is its biggest store so far.

Letter: Reader mad about MDA...

Alert: I’m mad!  
The Muscular Dystrophy Association has just a two-star rating for a nonprofit by Charity Navigators, but they had an awesome firefighter outside the Indian Land Walmart taking donations two weeks ago.
The firefighters were standing there with what looked like a fireman’s boot, which was misleading to those who were giving their hard-earned money away, myself included.

Mills golden up front in...

Lancaster High School sophomore swimmer Makenzy Mills, saving her best time for the season’s biggest moment, etched her name in Bruins’ swim team history Friday night.
Mills, an ace backstroker and a four-year member of the LHS swim team, became the first Buford High School member of the Bruins swim team to win a coveted individual state title at the Class AAAA swim meet at the University of South Carolina Natatorium in Columbia.

Column: SCDOT kicks a critic off...

Tom Fernandez says he was just trying to make a serious point – in a humorous way – about the S.C. Department of Transportation’s pothole-repair program.
On Aug. 29, DOT posted a video on the agency’s Facebook page titled, “How does a pothole get repaired?” About two weeks earlier, Fernandez, a Berkeley County businessman and frequent critic of DOT on social media, posted a parody video on one of his Facebook pages showing him filling a pothole on a rural road with two pizzas.

Jackets rip Cavs in homecoming...

The Buford Yellow Jackets had a solid homecoming performance against the Carolina Christian Cavaliers on Friday night, cruising to a 43-12 non-region win.  The win was the fifth in a row for the Jackets, pushing their mark to 5-3 with only two games left in the regular season.
The multi-dimensional Jacket offense was led by quarterback Brayden Phillips who threw for three scores in the 31-point win.
 The ground game was just as efficient, Tyheim Miller added two TDs and Toot Curry had one score on the ground for the Jackets.

Mills joins LHS state title...

The 2018 Lancaster High School swim season marks the school’s 21st competing in high school swimming.
With the 2018 LHS swim season, Bruins’ sophomore swimmer Makenzy Mill’s 100-yard backstroke state championship gives the program four individual swimmers who have won at least one state crown.
Mills, a Buford High student, joins the ranks of former LHS swimming state champions Sean Quinn, sister Kathleen Quinn and Jory Pettit.

Column: Our state’s maternal...

South Carolina’s maternal-mortality rate is the eighth highest in the nation, with 26.5 deaths for 100,000 live births compared to 20.7 nationwide.
The Centers For Disease Control also found that between 2011 and 2015, the maternal-mortality rate for black women in our state was significantly higher, with a gap of more than 40 deaths per 100,000 live births.
I am helping to lead a bipartisan effort in the Senate calling for an increased focus on reducing maternal mortality in the United States and improving health outcomes for all mothers and children.