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Some areas of Lancaster County could see a wintry mix of precipitation Thursday night into early Friday morning.
According to the National Weather Service, there is a 20 percent chance of ice pellets and freezing rain moving in Thursday night. Models have the precipitation currently staying well east of Lancaster, and the Charlotte metropolitan area.
If any ice pellets or freezing rain were to fall here, it would happen late Thursday night into early Friday morning (about 2 or 4 a.m.), with freezing ran lasting only around an hour.

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources, for the second year, is releasing 16 tagged coyotes into each of the state’s four game zones as part of its coyote-harvest incentive program.
Anyone who kills one of the tagged coyotes will receive a lifetime hunting license in the state. Hunters must retain the carcass and contact S.C. DNR to claim the reward. Whoever wins a license may keep it or designate someone else to receive it.

Paul Slazas
Special to The Lancaster News

Three Lancaster County families were displaced after fires broke out in their homes this week.

T.T. Barnes was a true legend.
The no-nonsense black educator and community leader died Friday. Born in Lancaster, Barnes was 92 years old.
Barnes, who saw the best in all children, had a local reputation for getting opposing parties to talk and iron out their differences, said Lancaster County Councilwoman Charlene McGriff.

State House Rep. Mandy Powers Norrell (D-Lancaster) has proposed changing the current municipal election law regarding contested elections.
The proposal came during a regular, joint House Legislative Oversight Committee meeting Dec. 19, where all four subcommittees met to discuss each subcommittee’s respective state agency. Norrell is on the Economic Development and Environmental Subcommittee.

Gloria Mackey Gordon, wearing her first-day-of-school dress and penny loafers, drove her blue Chevy to pick up three friends.
It was 1966 and Gordon was a junior.