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Lancaster County’s inexplicable dropoff in property-tax collections, first noticed in January, is still a mystery, but a few things have become clearer over the past month.
An $833,000 chunk of the shortfall has been identified as an error in the bill that a state agency sent to Duke Energy, the county’s largest taxpayer. Comporium Communications was under-billed by $88,000. Those taxes should be paid within days.

Emily Pollok
For The Lancaster News

Perhaps by this time next year, area residents and visitors will have a better and safer opportunity to enjoy the Lindsay Pettus Greenway.
Lancaster City Council has agreed to earmark $100,000 in hospitality tax funds as part of a grant request that would add a sidewalk and other amenities along Woodland Drive from White Street to Lancaster High School.
The hospitality tax is a 2-percent sales tax on all prepared foods and beverages served within the city limits. It’s a stated city goal to leverage such tax proceeds to improve the Greenway.

By 1989, at age 42, Dr. Jairy Hunter Jr. had accomplished what he had set out to do as president of what was then called Baptist College at Charleston.

The plan to build sidewalks near Indian Land Middle School on River Road is on hold for now after county officials learned this week that the estimated cost of construction has soared from $161,000 to $248,000.
County council was told earlier this month that S.C. Department of Transportation cost estimates for the project were too low. DOT gave new higher estimates to the county April 19.  

After significant rainfall across both Carolinas this past Sunday and Monday, the Catawba River Basin is struggling to move all of that

Sheriff’s Deputy James Kirk Jr., a 28-year veteran of Lancaster County law enforcement, died Tuesday after he collapsed during firearms training.

A veteran Lancaster County law officer died Tuesday after collapsing at a training event.

Sheriff's Deputy James Kirk Jr., 57, of Lancaster was rushed to Springs Memorial Hospital, where he later died from an apparent medical condition, according to a statement from sheriff's Maj. Matt Shaw, issued at 11:24 p.m. Tuesday. The statement said nothing further about the cause of death or exactly what Kirk was doing when he collapsed.