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Archivists are not known for getting down in the dirt.

Daquan Stevenson has a new ride.

County council member Jack Estridge, first elected in 2002 to represent the southern part of the county, will not seek a fifth term in office.
“I think I’ve served long enough, and others are willing to step up,” the 72-year-old Democrat said Friday.
“I tell you, I have two little great-grandchildren who have really brightened up my life, and I just want to spend as much time as I can with them.”

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Acclaimed animal trainer Tim Seegars of Fort Lawn died in a fire at his home this week.

This month’s heavy rains turned a simple training exercise into real-life danger for firefighters trudging through muddy 8-foot-deep, 25-foot-long trenches.

A former Ringling Bros. circus clown is running for the 5th District congressional seat, targeting the laughingstock Washington establishment.
“They joke that the president and Congress are all clowns,” Steven Lough said in an interview with The State. “Well, in my professional opinion, they are the worst clowns I’ve ever seen.”

It’s a moot point, since the Panhandle incorporation flat-lined in Tuesday’s referendum, but more than half the voters would’ve named the new town Indian Land.
Other conventional write-in names on the ballots included Belair, Carolina Lakes, Fort Mill Proper, Harrisburg, Pleasant Valley and Possum Hollow.
Then there were the smart alecks.

Eight months after broken underpinnings shut the road down, the rebuilt Woodland Drive bridge near Lancaster High School opened Thursday, restoring traffic to one of the city’s busiest east-west thoroughfares.

Two local apartment complexes and one business have been victimized by a thief who fished checks and cash out of drop boxes and mail slots.
The thief made off with 16 checks in all worth a total of $7,210 during the late February and early March incidents at the Cottages at Azalea and the Northwest apartment complexes and Lancaster Financial Services.
The crimes at the two apartment complex offices happened overnight March 4, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office and Lancaster Police Department incident reports.