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  • Gun sales increase in county

    During the post-Christmas wrap-up of sales during the 2011 shopping season, several news organizations reported an unexpected finding – guns were among the best-selling Christmas items nationwide.
    The reports, based on federal background checks through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), showed there were a record 1,534,414 inquiries by gun retailers in December for people buying guns.

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  • New home building starts in Walnut Creek

    For the first time in several years, new homebuilding has begun again in Walnut Creek, the once-troubled neighborhood formerly known as Edenmoor.
    Bonterra Builders of Matthews, N.C., began building three new homes last week, the first new home construction in the neighborhood since before former developer Lawson’s Bend LLC walked away from the project in October 2008.

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  • B-3 committee drafts new zoning districts

    After months of discussion, a committee tasked with clearing up zoning concerns in the Panhandle has developed a proposed list of commercial zoning districts.
    County Planning Director Chris Karres said the list of 16 business districts was recently drafted by a county committee made up of Lancaster County Council members Larry McCullough, Larry Honeycutt and Charlene McGriff, members of the county planning department, the planning commission and residents from Van Wyck and Sun City Carolina Lakes.

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  • School district buys bus complex in Lancaster

    The Lancaster County School District’s Maintenance Department has a new home with the district’s purchase of the former Springs Transportation Department complex Feb. 6.
    Meanwhile, the school board moved one step closer to making a new Indian Land elementary school a reality with a purchase contract for land for it.
    LCSD Finance Director Tony Walker said the district closed on the 22-acre complex Feb. 6 for a bid of $650,000, which is $100,000 less than Springs Global’s original asking price.

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  • Two men sought in IL Walmart armed robbery

    Authorities are investigating an armed robbery that took place Monday night at the Indian Land Walmart.
    Sheriff's deputies came to the supercenter at 10048 Charlotte Highway at 8 p.m. after two men approached the service desk with a note demanding money, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office press release.
    One of the suspects flashed a handgun, the release said.

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  • Be a WARRIOR, not a VICTIM

    by Nita Brown and Jane Alford

    About 80 people, mostly women, attended the Personal Safety Awareness class at Indian Land High School on Jan. 31.
    The class, the third of four such classes offered throughout the county by the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, was ample evidence that interest in personal safety has taken center stage in Lancaster County. Spurred by a string of recent violent crimes, people want to know what they can do to protect themselves.

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  • Red Ventures receives three bomb threats

    A string of bomb threats called into an Indian Land business over the last two weeks have authorities searching for the culprit.
    The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the case after the first call came into Internet marketing and sales firm Red Ventures on Jan. 19. Since then, two more calls, on Jan. 20 and Jan. 30, have disrupted the business, located at 1101 521 Corporate Center Drive. All three calls were made at similar times to the company’s sales center, between 11:20 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.

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  • Mulvaney sends back $160,000

    from U.S. District 5 Rep. Mick Mulvaney’s office
    U.S. District 5 Rep. Mick Mulvaney is giving back more than $160,000 – about 11 percent of the money his office was allotted in 2011 – to help pay down the national debt.
    Mulvaney is joining other freshmen congressmen, who are also returning their leftover money. The eight conservative freshmen members are asking House Speaker John Boehner to do the same with his office’s leftover money – about $1.5 million.

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  • County jobless rate rises to 13.4 percent

    The local economy followed an interesting trend that shows a drop in the state’s jobless rate despite increases in most counties.
    Lancaster County’s unemployment rate for December was 13.4 percent, a jump from the 12.9 percent rate in November, according to numbers released by the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.
    The county had the state’s 13th highest unemployment rate in December. In December 2010, the county posted 15.6 percent, which was seventh in the state at the time.

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  • District signs contract for land for new IL school

    Lancaster County school board took another major step toward construction of a new elementary school in Indian Land this weekend by signing a contract to buy property on Harrisburg Road.
    The development comes seven months after the school board approved $1.5 million in this year’s budget to fund site selection for the estimated $15.1 million project.
    The 26.5-acre property is about a mile and a half north of S.C. 160 across the road from the BridgeHampton neighborhood.

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