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HEATH SPRINGS – First responders worked for nearly two hours Saturday but were unable to save a horse that wandered out onto a frozen pond on Cottage Road and fell through the ice.
Mike Dazzo with Lancaster County EMS said the dispatch call originally went out as a fallen person, but when paramedic Tony Graham and his partner, Daniel Mahaffey, arrived on-scene, they immediately called for assistance from the fire department.

The Katawba Valley Land Trust has named Dick Christie its new executive director.

The grandmother of 3-year-old Lilly Schroeder was arrested Friday in connection with the toddler’s beating death.

Tracy Helms Schroeder, 48, of Rock Hill, has been charged with unlawful neglect of a child.

I reach really high to a top shelf in the Lancaster High School library.

I grab the light gray, 50-year-old 1967 Rambler yearbook.

Then I pull down the ’66 and ’68 books, too.

They’re heavy.

I carry them to an empty table.

Though I look like I’m still in high school, I feel the students staring at me like, “What is this crazy newspaper lady doing now?”

I put the books down and start looking through pages in search of black students.

Seven couples will take the stage at the Art’s Focus Program’s second-annual Dancing With the Stars fundraiser on Feb. 3.
This year’s featured dancers are:
• Cedric Mingo and Katherine Foo.
• Dean Faile and Ashley Shannon.
• Michael Clancy and Connie Funderburk.
• Matthew Whitaker and Jamikka Crockett.
• Delmar Patterson and Liz Joyner.
• David Platts and Katrina Bernsdorff.
• Sal Estrada and Deborah Cureton.

A traveling flag that marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War flew on the flagpole in Cecil and Phyllis Gardner’s yard last month.

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