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Law enforcement for an incorporated Indian Land would likely cost more than double the $1.2 million budgeted by town organizers in their proposal to the state – and up to three times that amount within several years.
That was the blunt assessment that Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile delivered Nov. 16 during a presentation to the Indian Land Action Council.

Turkey recipes vary this Thanksgiving – at least among Erwin Elementary students.
Most of their recipes call for an hour of cooking, but others have a few unheard-of touches.
The first step for Kyra Smith, 10, is thawing the turkey.

The Lancaster City Council has approved an upgrade to the city’s dispatch system.
Council unanimously voted for the agenda item 5-0, with council members Tamara Green Garris and Linda Blackmon absent from the Nov. 14 meeting. The upgrade will cost the city $22,330.
“It’s one of those things that – it’s not that we want to do it…, we’ve got to do it,” said Mayor John Howard.

Four volunteer fire departments responded to a house fire early Saturday at 2037 Riverside Road in Lancaster County.
Firefighters from Gooches, Shiloh Zion, Riverside and Charlotte Road/Van Wyck fire departments were called to the blaze at 3:27 a.m. and were on scene until 7:16 a.m.
The fire is still under investigation, with no cause determined yet, said Lancaster County Fire Marshal Russell Rogers.

This is not your everyday Lancaster News.

Lancaster County retailers have their Black Friday inventory and are stocking shelves in preparation for the busiest shopping day of the year.
Hot big-ticket items this year are expected to include televisions, Apple watches, gaming systems and appliances.
More than 164 million consumers in the United States are expected to shop over the Thanksgiving weekend and cyber Monday, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF).
In 2016, individual shoppers spent on average $289.19, the NRF reported.

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Indian Land High School has received a $10,000 grant for its automotive technology program for the third year in a row.
The Real Tools for Schools grant from Ingersoll Rand has been given to the school each year since 2015 in an effort to improve the automotive vocational classes. The grant can be used to update equipment, to purchase supplies or for instructor training and curriculum.

A Lancaster man died Wednesday morning in a two-vehicle collision near Pageland.
Duane A. Russell III, 83, was killed in the accident, which happened about 10:50 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. 601 and the S.C. 151 Bypass, the Highway Patrol reported.
Russell was turning his Chevrolet minivan left onto U.S. 601 north when he was hit by a tractor-trailer heading south on S.C. 151. The driver of the tractor-trailer, Addi Ibrahim of Waterville, Ohio, was not injured.
The accident closed the bypass for several hours.