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J. Marion Sims Foundation has announced another challenge to raise money for community-building efforts after an anonymous donor gave $25,000 in the first 48 hours to meet the last challenge.
The foundation announced on Nov. 27 plans to donate $50,000 to the Lancaster County Community Foundation (LCCF) and match up to $25,000 more. One family stepped forward with the $25,000.
Sims and two new partners in the effort – Founders Federal Credit Union and Springs Memorial Hospital – are now extending the dollar-for-dollar match up to $17,500 through March.

An Indian Man reported the theft of two pairs of his wife’s diamond earrings from their home earlier this month – worth $100,000.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the 40-year-old Millstone neighborhood resident told the investigator last week that he believed the earrings were stolen from his home during a gathering there the evening of Dec. 6.

With the holiday upon us, HOPE in Lancaster is two-thirds of the way to its $10,000 goal for this year’s Ward Faulkenberry Sr. Christmas Basket Fund.
The nonprofit by Friday had raised $6,420 in this year’s fundraising drive.
HOPE Director Bekah Clawson said HOPE appreciates the donations that have come in so far and will keep pushing to meet the goal. In the past two years, the goal has been met by around the first of the year.

Water service will be interrupted for about five hours this Tuesday in parts of the Buford community, as the Lancaster County Water and Sewer District replaces water-line valves.
Water will be shut off from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for some customers near the Buford schools, along parts of S.C. 522, Tabernacle Road, Thompson Road, Red Doc Road and Pink Plyler Road.
“We planned it around the school dismissals because we didn’t want to disrupt the schools,” said
LCWSD Manager Stephen White.

Gonzie’s Miracle Bikes for Kids will go only to local kids again this year, after transportation issues scrapped plans to send a l

A Lancaster man was charged with murder Friday in the overnight shooting of man in a residential area off Chesterfield Avenue.
Dequavis Laquail Blackmon, 28, turned himself in Friday and was charged with killing 34-year-old Antwan Deshawn James of Lancaster. Blackmon was also charged with possession of a firearm during a violent crime.

Fire destroyed a Brooklyn Avenue home on Friday morning. Firefighters from multiple county fire departments were called to the scene about 10:49 a.m. No one was there at the time and the home was a total loss. For more, see the Sunday, Dec. 24 edition of The Lancaster News.

In 1929, 6-year-old Fred Mullis attended his first auction with his dad, Sampson Mullis.
The derby hat, string bowtie and vest he saw an auctioneer wearing that day made such an impression that it would shape his life, family and vocation. He was sold on the spot, said younger brother Sherrill Mullis.