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Lancaster City Council has voted unanimously to amend the city’s water contract and metering policy to limit late fees.
The new policy, approved last week, allows each water customer four utility disconnect extensions per calendar year. This allows customers delinquent in paying their bill by the 15th of the month to essentially extend their bill seven business days past the 25th of the month while paying just one $25 late fee.
Under the old policy, customers paid one $25 late fee on the 15th and another on the 25th if the bill still wasn’t paid.

Jeff Moyer, Buford High School’s beloved “Coach Mo,” died before dawn Tuesday, less than a month after learning he had brain cancer. He was 65.

After seven weeks in the hospital, Lancaster Mayor John Howard continues to gain strength, and the tumor in his lung has shrunk significantly after his first chemo treatment.
“From an oncology perspective, the care team is very pleased,” Shelley Robinson, Howard’s daughter, posted on a website set up to keep the public informed. “With his first round of chemo, the tumor in his chest has reduced in size by 50 percent or more.”

Austin Steele was a loving, generous young man who worked part-time jobs and liked to take off on his moped for solo excursions to the beach, says Peggy Rape, his caretaker for several years.

“Love is not a spectator sport” is screen-printed on the back of Sherri Wilkes’ T-shirt.

Scattered throughout Indian Land, the signs are hard to miss since their messages – “Stop school overcrowding” and “Tired of Traffic?” – play on two of the community’s most pressing issues.
Placed by incorporation organizers Voters for a Town of Indian Land (VTIL), the signs offer their own solution printed at the bottom in big bold letters – “Vote Yes.”
Organizers of the No Town of Indian Land (No TOIL) camp disagree, and have their own “Vote No” signs to show it.

Lancaster County will join a nationwide legal effort against pharmaceutical companies in hopes of recovering some of the money it has spent combatting the opioid epidemic, which killed 25 people here last year.

Seasoned law officers and crime-scene technicians were mortified Thursday by what they discovered during a day-long search at a residence off S.C. 200 south of Lancaster.