Archive By Author - Martin L. Cahn
Johnny Fellers, Kershaw County's coroner for more than 20 years, will no longer be coroner after this November's election. Fellers, who also served as a deputy coroner for eight years prior to first being elected coroner in 1993, announced Monday he would not be running for reelection this fall.
January 08, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Politics
In recent days, Hezbollah, the Shi'a Islamic militant group and political party, reportedly moved missiles from storage bases in Syria to Lebanon. The missiles include Scud Ds that could target Israel. The news echoes fears Israel faced in December 1998 after the United States and United Kingdom conducted Operation Desert Fox, a bombing campaign on Iraqi targets. After the four-day operation, Israel and its American and U.K. partners worried that Iraq might fire Scud missiles against Israel -- something Iraq had done during the first Gulf War almost eight years earlier in January 1991.
January 08, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Military
As I spelled out near the end of last month, the biggest local story of 2013 was KershawHealth. As faithful readers know, as the healthcare organization celebrated its centennial, it became further bogged down by losses caused primarily by external factors. Those factors include continuing shifts -- thanks to the economic fallout of the last few years -- from inpatient to outpatient volumes, cuts in governmental and commercial reimbursements and South Carolina's decision not to expand Medicaid.
January 06, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
Whether it be the back nine or the back 40, you know you're getting closer to the end of some stories as you reach them. That's the case with this last third of our review of the year that was: 2013. Some stories are "good;" some less so.
January 03, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Miscellaneous
And so we come to the middle of the year gone by -- the months of May, June, July and August 2013. What was the big news? Flooding, the transformation of a former school, Bethune's police department, KershawHealth's financial struggles and the saddest, but not entirely unpredicted end to a story of a missing teenager from Columbia.
January 01, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Miscellaneous
A detainee at the Kershaw County Detention Center allegedly struck another detainee and a female corrections officer on Dec. 26.
January 01, 2014
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Isn't that a great cartoon by Ariail up there? I love how Baby New Year's coming in on a drone, taking a selfie as Old Man 2013 looks on incredulously. It's inspiring, even ... at least to someone who needs to write an end-of-the-year column.
December 30, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
Whether it was Bethune, Camden, Elgin or Kershaw County, councils of the city, town and county variety grabbed headlines throughout 2013, including during the early months of the year.
December 30, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Miscellaneous
The Kershaw County Sheriff's Office (KCSO) arrested a Georgia man on drug charges following a shooting incident at a Lugoff hotel. KCSO deputies have not been able to directly tie the man to the shooting.
December 24, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
Someone shot out the window to a GMC Yukon as its owner was traveling on Chestnut Ferry Road Ext.
December 24, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
A Leesville man died in Kershaw County when he lost control of his motorcycle Saturday evening.
December 23, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Crime-Police-Fire
At the end of past years, I've picked out a person or group of the year, sometimes both. This year, I'm not so much highlighting a group as I am an organization. Really, what I'm doing is recognizing the year's biggest story.
December 23, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Columns
Kershaw County currently has no plans to develop or otherwise use a 122-acre piece of property associated with Liberty Hill Farms the county controls. The Conservation Fund, a national non-profit dedicated to preserving natural resources, recently purchased a more than 3,500-acre site once known as the Singleton Creek Tract from Greenwood Communities and Resorts Inc. for $9.187 million.
December 23, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Kershaw County
A more than 10-year-old dream of State Sen. Vincent Sheheen's is coming true.
December 20, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Kershaw County
KershawHealth's new interim chief executive officer (CEO) says the healthcare organization needs to reestablish relationships with physicians and the trust of the people of Kershaw County in order to succeed in the future. Terry Gunn, who took over as interim CEO two weeks ago, made the statement as part of a report to the KershawHealth Board of Trustees during its meeting Tuesday evening.
December 20, 2013
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Martin L.
Cahn
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Healthcare
