Lancaster County, SC | featured news

Tameka Morrow, a teacher at North Elementary School, is running unopposed in the race for the open seat on Heath Springs Town Council.

INDIAN LAND – There’s bad news and good for Reid Pointe, whose residents are scrambling to repair their subdivision’s streets so that the county will agree to accept them into its road system.
The bad news is that the streets’ problems are not cosmetic issues with the asphalt, according to new county tests completed last week. They involve the road base, which is too weak to support the required amount of weight.

Less than a month after we were making snowmen, Lancaster hit 80 degrees Friday, with beaming sunshine but damaging winds.

Commuters and residents along the Lancaster County side of Regent Parkway at the Panhandle’s northern tip found unusual signs beside the heavily-traveled road Tuesday morning: Private Road. No Trespassing.

South Carolina has seen its first pediatric death of the flu season, according to the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
The reported death occurred in the Midlands region, which consists of 12 counties including Lancaster. DHEC would not specify the county where the child died.
“The most information we can release is the region that the death occurred in,” said a DHEC spokesman.

A new multi-story apartment complex is coming to Indian Land.
Lancaster County Council passed a resolution Monday night that moves forward the master plan to build the 300-unit Six Mile Creek Apartments, as well as an adjacent commercial component on 20 acres along the east side of U.S. 521. The property is directly across from the entrance to the BridgeMill subdivision and BridgeMill Drive, which is just north of Transformation Church.

After Wednesday’s Florida school shooting, Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell wrote on Facebook that her daughter feared attending Lancaster High because she saw a student assault a teacher there Feb. 2.
On Thursday, school officials said no such attack had occurred, and the 44th District Democrat from Lancaster removed the post from her Facebook page.
There was a Feb. 2 incident in which a teacher intervened to stop an argument between two students, said LHS Principal Rosalyn Mood, but “at no time was the teacher assaulted or struck by any student.”