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Nearly 65 professionals and female students from Lancaster County high schools met at Lineberger Construction Inc. on Jan.

It’s June 21, 2016, and I sit at my soon-to-be-paper-covered desk to write my first story ever as a reporter for The Lancaster News.
It’s about Anita Watts being named principal of A.R. Rucker Middle School. It’s a Tuesday, a deadline day.

Twenty-year-old Buford resident Samual Purser is a man on a mission, traveling around the world spreading the Gospel to pockets of people who have never heard of it.

A Kershaw man was arrested last week after neighbors told authorities they had intervened to stop him from beating his girlfriend.
Thomas Andrew Cattles, 35, is charged with first-degree domestic violence and kidnapping in the Jan. 23 incident.
According to a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the 27-year-old victim said Cattles forced her into the bathroom during an argument that turned physical, grabbed her by the throat and shoved her into the bathtub, where he began strangling her.

Sugarshine, Lancaster’s hometown reggae band, showed up Friday at Brooklyn Springs Elementary with 30 five-gallon buckets and 35 sets of brand new drumsticks for the music classes.

“I don’t want to be the first black mayor. I want to be the first black mayor who does well and helps grow the town.”
– Heath Springs Mayor Eddie Moore

HEATH SPRINGS – When some politicians enter a room, all eyes turn to them, and conversations pause so the speech can begin.

I slam the phone down, grab my coat and storm out of the newsroom.

Another gatekeeper has just told me that someone I desperately need to talk to is “unavailable.”

Well, what’s new?

I just have to laugh at how ridiculous this is. Again my job being made difficult because I’m blocked from getting information from public officials.

A 3-year-old girl was murdered in our town, and I have questions about what happened and why.