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When Van Wyck voters went to the poll in August, they chose to become a town and set up its governmental structure.
Next week, residents of the state’s newest municipality will decide who will run it.
Van Wyck’s inaugural election to seat its first town council and mayor is Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the Van Wyck Community Center, 5036 Old Hickory Road. The poll is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Reece Murphy
rmurphy@thelancasternews.com
Charles Levi Small was convicted of reckless homicide Wednesday in a 2013 road-rage accident on Camp Creek Road that killed 26-year-old Jeffrey Whitener.

An armed man barricaded himself in his Ruth Street home late Thursday and was in a standoff with county authorities who were trying to talk him into surrendering.
“Obviously, it’s a very dangerous situation when you have someone armed,” said Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Doug Barfield. “He has expressed intent to harm himself or others.”
Ruth Street runs between Great Falls Highway and Springdale Road and is a block away from the junction of Airport and Memorial Park roads.

Jim Wilson had a knack for numbers and was downright persnickety about them, Mayor John Howard recalled Tuesday.

A dozen people were arrested in the Kershaw area last week on drug and other charges, most arising from an earlier undercover investigation, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

Incumbent Eddie Coates beat newcomer Wesley Norville by a 3-to-1 margin Tuesday in the race for an at-large Kershaw Town Council seat.
Coates won 75 percent of the vote, with 132 votes to Norville’s 44. Only one absentee vote was cast.
While he’s glad the election is over, Coates said, “I’m ready to continue working until my next four years are up.”
“The turnout really floored me,” he said. “I was not expecting even 100 people to show up.”

This week is prime time for enjoying fall foliage across the Piedmont, and there are plenty of places in Lancaster County popping with reds, yellows and oranges.

A Lancaster man was arrested with an assortment of weapons after his estranged wi

HEATH SPRINGS – Eddie Moore became the first black mayor elected in Lancaster County history on Tuesday, winning a three-candidate nonpartisan race in Heath Springs.