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If you live in Lancaster, Heath Springs or Kershaw and think you don’t have a dog in the Panhandle incorporation fight, you are mistaken.
Incorporation by Indian Land would directly affect taxpayers in the county’s other towns because the new municipality would be far more populous and would suck up a large majority of Local Option Sales Tax revenue.

The Lancaster Rotary Club has published its first-ever cookbook to raise money for its charitable projects.
Rotary member Danelle Faulkenberry brought all of the local recipes together. She said the book is a combination of the club’s recipes and its history and memories since its founding in 1942. Most of the recipes in the book are simple and require only three to five ingredients to complete.

Multiple shots were heard in two Indian Land neighborhoods Monday night, and the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is investigating both incidents.
Deputies responded shortly after 10:30 p.m. to a home in the Hatton Terrace neighborhood, where a woman reported that her home had been shot, according to sheriff’s spokesman Doug Barfield. Deputies determined that the home had been struck three times.
“We still don’t know who did it or why,” Barfield said.

City council held a special called meeting Wednesday night and spent about 40 minutes debating a $25 fee that the utilities department charges customers who are late paying their water bills.
Council member Linda Blackmon brought up the matter, saying she favored dropping the fee entirely.

Jim McKeown Jr., owner, editor and publisher of the Kershaw News Era for three decades, was found dead Thursday in his home. He was 66.
McKeown, who came from a newspaper-industry family, was known for his columns and hard work at the paper.
“He was the paper,” said Kim Roberts, a 16-year freelancer for the Kershaw News Era. “He had ink in his blood.”

U.S. Postal Service officials attended yet another tough meeting with Indian Land residents Tuesday night on the latest proposal for an Indian Land post office.
The meeting at the CrossRidge Auditorium came about three months after a raucous meeting at Indian Land’s York Tech Campus about a proposed site on Rosemont Drive near the Rosemont subdivision.

South Carolina is one of only five states whose voting machines create no paper trail that could be used to reconstruct the balloting if hackers found a way to change votes in an election.

 In its first year as a town, Van Wyck will be ringing in the holiday spirit this weekend with a Christmas parade at noon Saturday and candle-lighting worship event beginning at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
The parade will celebrate South Carolina’s youngest town with Mayor Sean Corcoran and town council members Bob Doster, Xavier Kee, Richard Vaughan and Cassandra Watkins as grand marshals.

Lancaster SPCA held its first Fur Ball Dec. 2 at USC Lancaster’s Bradley Building. The event featured dinner, dancing and silent and live auctions. All proceeds benefited the LSPCA’s vetting costs, critical needs and spay and neuter program.