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A detailed schedule for the opening of a new elementary school in the Panhandle has been set by the Lancaster County School District.
The timeline allows the district to have everything in place for a “smooth opening” of the new school in fall 2018, said Superintendent Jonathan Phipps.
“We’re very excited about getting the school open to help with the growth in the northern part of our county,” Phipps said.
Construction began in the spring on the 36-acre site located on the west side of U.S. 521, just south of Rebound Road.

County leaders are trying to come up with an ordinance to address pesky door-to-door peddlers who show up uninvited or refuse to leave when asked.
It’s become a real issue for residents in Sun City Carolina Lakes, said Lancaster County Council member Terry Graham.
“I’ve gotten a number of complaints, too, from the subdivisions near the state line,” said council member Brian Carnes, who like Graham represents Indian Land. “A lot of them come in from North Carolina, and when you ask them to leave, they won’t leave….

Christian Services and HOPE in Lancaster have joined forces to restore an old community gathering space and make it the hub of their charity operations.
The building they’ve chosen is no ordinary office space. In fact, it’s not an office at all. It’s the Lancaster Bowling Center.

The March of Dimes’ annual fundraising walk, March for Babies, will be held next weekend, and leading the Lancaster walk will be ambassador family Brandon and Emily Hunter with their 17-month-old son, Holden.

Eight abandoned houses on Lancaster’s Starnes Street have been torn down through a state program aimed

Jonathan Veit 

Clemson University

CLEMSON – A dry 2016 coupled with a late summer cold front brought on by Tropical Storm Irma has jumpstarted fall color in the southern Appalachians.

Clemson University forest ecologist Don Hagan, in his annual fall foliage assessment, reports that the bounty of fall colors enjoyed by so many leaf lookers and businesses is seven to 10 days ahead of schedule in some areas.

Two men were seriously injured Wednesday night in unrelated shootings in different parts of Lancaster County.
The names of the men were not released, and no arrests had been made at press time. Both victims were airlifted for treatment of their injuries.
The first incident happened a little after 6 p.m. in the 5000 block of Pleasant Plains Road in Kershaw, according to a statement from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

At Tuesday’s Lancaster City Council meeting, council members Gonzie Mackey, Kenny Hood and Tamara Green Garris got into a testy exchange with Mayor John Howard about his recent stroke and an earlier council vote.
After the heated words, Garris, the mayor pro tem, tried to calm the waters.  
“We want to be respectful towards each other,” she said, “and we don’t want the public to think we’re up here fussing and fighting all the time.”