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A move to scrap Lancaster’s Performing Arts Series of concerts came close to passing Tuesday night, as city council members fretted over the program’s $150,000 deficit for this fiscal year.
After an hour-long executive session to discuss the Performing Arts Series, which has generated about $89,000 in revenue this year, council member Linda Blackmon made a motion to discontinue the concerts.
The vote failed on a 3-3 tie, with Blackmon, Hazel Taylor and Sara Eddins in favor, and Gonzie Mackey, Kenny Hood and Mayor Pro Tem Tamara Green Garris against.

INDIAN LAND – Firefighters were working like mad Thursday afternoon to battle a spreading fire that had already destroyed three houses in the Sun City Carolina Lakes subdivision off U.S. 521.

A Lancaster man and woman suffered burns during a fire at their home on Country Club Drive early Sunday morning.
Murray Montgomery was transported by Lancaster County EMS to Springs Memorial Hospital and treated for burns and smoke inhalation.
The woman, whose name had not been released Tuesday, was first flown to Palmetto Richland Hospital, then sent to the Joseph M. Still Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., where she was treated for severe injuries.

Lancaster County students today will mark the one-month anniversary of the Florida school massacre, but school officials here do not expect the “walkout” planned at many campuses across the country.
Plans have been announced for specific in-school commemorations at Lancaster, Indian Land, Buford and Andrew Jackson high schools.

KERSHAW – Two years after rotting timbers closed the Stevens Park playground, a $375,000 fundraising drive to replace the equipment has been completed, and construction will begin Friday.

The trailer parked outside Lancaster County Fire Rescue is a claustrophobe’s worst nightmare.