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Panhandle residents might get some sort of satellite county government offices in the not-so-distant future.
Lancaster County Council directed staff Monday night to flesh out the concept of leasing office space in Indian Land.
“From a customer-service standpoint, it’s something we need to do, but we are under financial constraints,” said Lancaster County Administrator Steve Willis.  

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It didn’t take Lancaster County Councilman Brian Carnes long Monday night to vent his frustration over the proposed stormwater ordinance that would add $75 to the tax bills of Panhandle homeowners.
Before the third and final reading on the ordinance, council members were presented a number of changes to the proposal, but had no time to study the 30-page document.
An indignant Carnes immediately made a motion to postpone the final reading of the controversial ordinance until Sept. 11. The public hearing was held as scheduled Monday.

The U.S. Postal Service is holding a public meeting on a newly proposed – and long-awaited – Indian Land post office.
The meeting to gather public input and answer residents’ questions about the project is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at York Technical College’s Indian Land Center, 1245 Rosemont Drive off S.C. 160 (Fort Mill Highway).
USPS real estate specialist Kurtis Bullard said USPS is considering a property across from the college on Rosemont Drive as a potential location for the proposed 13,000-square-foot, full-service post office.

Keeping huge stockpiles of cash around the house has cost one Lancaster County theft victim $20,000 and another $12,000, according to sheriff’s office reports.
The first incident happened at a home on Oak Hill Church Road in the Buford community sometime between July 27 and Aug. 24.
According to the report, the 68-year-old victim told the reporting deputy he’d put $27,700 cash he’d received following the death of his wife in a fireproof lockbox and hidden it covered by a shirt under the seat of a seldom-used pickup truck parked in the yard.

With a successful vote for incorporation wrapped up two weeks ago, Van Wyck residents will take the next step in their historic journey as a community the second week in November with an election to choose the new town’s first government.  
Lancaster County Director of Elections Mary Ann Hudson said the non-partisan election to choose Van Wyck’s first mayor and four at-large council members is Nov. 14.

Page Vaughan was named Springs Memorial Hospital’s new chief executive officer on Monday.

Thomas Burdette has saved quite a few lives in 22 years as a paramedic.
Usually he never sees those people again. Occasionally someone will send a thank you note or stop by to shake his hand.
Then there’s Daniela Pagan, who takes appreciation to a whole new level.

Sept. 11, 2001, is a day most Americans will never forget.

The city of Lancaster could have a new finance director in the next few days.
Lancaster City Council unanimously agreed to offer the job to Daniel Driggers on Tuesday night after meeting behind closed doors to discuss finalists.
A Columbia native, Driggers is the former chief financial officer for Richland County, where he oversaw an annual budget of more than $300 million.