7+ hour, 20+ min ago   (623+ words) When the Fort Mill Town Council convenes this coming Monday evening at Town Hall on North White Street, tucked between heavy-agenda items like a comprehensive 253-page land-use overhaul and a $73 million municipal budget, sits a single pending ordinance that cuts…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (441+ words) COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – A sixth grader at White Knoll Middle School in 2001, Maurice Hallman remembers how his school day started on Sept. 11. His principal announced on the intercom for teachers to turn on their classroom televisions to see what was…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (253+ words) Silfab Solar has hired Jamie Watts as its corporate director for health and safety. The move puts a new executive in charge of safety at the company’s Fort Mill plant six months after two chemical incidents there closed a nearby…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (257+ words) Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Annie Andrews will meet with voters from 9:15 to 9:45 a.m. Wednesday at The Hickory, 202 E. Main St. in downtown Rock Hill. State House candidate Mallory Dittmer is scheduled to attend, according to the Andrews campaign. The event is open…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1736+ words) Legislators made a gentlemen’s agreement not to send money directly to nonprofits starting next year. Several Senate earmarks are funded that way this year. COLUMBIA — When legislators passed a $350 million spending deal, they announced an agreement to change how the…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (259+ words) Fort Mill Sun Mallory Dittmer, Democratic Nominee for the 5th Congressional District, today announced the next stop on her Better Together Town Hall Tour in Indian Land, South Carolina, on Tuesday, September 8. It is the third in a district-wide series of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (251+ words) Chad Williams won the Democratic primary for South Carolina Senate District 15 on Tuesday, taking 1,447 votes to Monika White’s 276 in unofficial returns reported by the York County Board of Voter Registration and Elections. Williams captured 83.98 percent of the 1,723 ballots cast. White…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (126+ words) Democrats will gather in Lancaster County on Friday, Sept. 4, for an organizing event focused on building political support across South Carolina. The event, titled “County by County: The Path to Power,” is part of the “Take It Back” tour featuring…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (112+ words) Fort Mill Sun Fort Mill parents, taxpayers and community members will have an opportunity to hear directly from candidates seeking seats on the Fort Mill School Board during a candidate forum scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 27. The Fort Mill School Board…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (255+ words) A federal appeals court has ruled that South Carolina’s age-based absentee voting system violates the U.S. Constitution, potentially changing how the state handles absentee ballots. In an Aug. 18 decision, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for…...