Archive By Author - Martin L. Cahn
Cahn: Sunshine Week -- Your right to know
This week marks the 10th annual observance of Sunshine Week by, primarily, the nation's newspapers, but other forms of media as well.
School board to vote on new referenda development
The Kershaw County Board of School Trustees is scheduled to vote Tuesday night on whether to move forward with developing a pair of new construction-related referenda and, if so, to accept a draft timeline for that development.
Cahn: When justice is derailed, we all lose
I'm not the bloodthirsty sort. I don't usually cry out for devastating vengeance against groups or individuals. If there was one person I wanted to know was heading to the electric chair, however, it was Nickolas Jermaine Miller, who will now spend the rest of his life in prison without parole for brutally murdering Beverly Hope Melton in December 2011.
School board continues referenda discussion
At its March 3 meeting, the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees heard a presentation from County Planner Carolyn Hammond on the pending build-out of more than 2,100 residential lots, nearly all in the West Wateree. Seventeen hundred of those lots would be in one subdivision called Coldbranch.
KH board to receive annual safety report tonight
Abby Palmer, KershawHealth's director of safety and emergency preparedness, will make her annual safety report to the KershawHealth Board of Trustees tonight. The board will meet at the Health Resource Center on Battleship Road beginning at 6 p.m.; the meeting is open to the public.
School board hears county growth report
With the inclusion of a 15- to 20-year residential project called Coldbranch, Kershaw County could see residential construction on 2,130 new lots during coming years. How the county -- including the Kershaw County School District (KCSD) -- will deal with that growth was the subject of a presentation County Planning & Zoning Department Director Carolyn Hammond made to the Kershaw County Board of Trustees on Monday night.
All-County Academic Teams: 20 years
A conversation 20 years ago between Victor Jowers and his wife, Sarah, created an academic legacy which has lasted ever since. Jowers said he was looking at the Chronicle-Independent and other newspapers and saw how they were recognizing the county's top athletes.
Cahn: Net neutrality is finally here
For those of you who believe in an open internet in the United States, the fight is still on. For the moment, though, we can bask in the glory of the U.S. Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) 3-2 vote last week to impose so-called "net neutrality" rules on internet service providers (ISPs).
KH finances rebound, but still suffering losses
KershawHealth still suffered an approximately $80,000 operating loss for the month of January, but -- thanks to an increase in emergency department visits and other factors -- improved its fiscal year-to-date bottom line by $1.5 million from January 2014. KershawHealth had lost $2.41 million dollars for the first four months of the 2014 fiscal year. For the first four months of Fiscal Year 2015, KershawHealth has only lost about $918,000.
‘Critical, hazardous’ fixes at Zemp to only cost $5,000
It will only cost the Kershaw County School District (KCSD) about $5,000 to repair the most critical and hazardous issues at Camden High School's Zemp Stadium. The district plans to begin making those repairs -- and similar ones at Lugoff-Elgin and North Central high schools' stadiums -- during warming weather later this year.
County native’s ‘Lighthouse’ combats sex trafficking
Andrea Wind, daughter of Lugoff Ford, Lugoff Toyota and Carolina Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge-Ram owner Mark Mason, recently founded Lighthouse for Life, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking through "education, restoration and empowerment," according to the organization's website.
Bulldogs Giving Back
Saturday night, a number of basketball players spent a few hours on the Camden High School's (CHS) basketball court playing five-on-five games to raise money for the Kershaw County Community Medical Clinic (CMC). The highlight of the evening: a game between members of the CHS' 2009 state championship basketball team and a team made up of other CHS basketball alumni. The alumni came out on top, narrowly defeating the 2009 team 38 to 36 after two 20-minute periods.
Cahn: ‘This isn’t why I moved down South’
During those times when it gets positively frigid here in Kershaw County -- say, 9 degrees when I woke up Friday morning -- I often tell people, "This isn't why I moved down South."
KCSD graduation rate at all time high
Kershaw County School District (KCSD) seniors and other students are receiving high school or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) at the highest rate ever in the district's history. According to information provided by KCSD Director for Student Assessment Lavoy Carter to the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees during its Feb. 17 meeting, 90.7 percent of students graduate in four years and 93.5 percent graduate in five years. Carter said the district's goal is to have all district students earn either a high school diploma or GED.
KershawHealth board meeting on tap for Bethune tonight
The KershawHealth Board of Trustees will meet tonight in Bethune as part of its quarterly commitment to meet in off-site locations around the county. The meeting will start at 6 p.m., be held in the Bethune Recreation Center and is open to the public.
Articles By Author - Martin L. Cahn
City council approves CCTC visitor center partnership
With barely any discussion, Camden City Council voted unanimously to approve an agreement with Central Carolina Technical College (CCTC) to design, construct and operate a ...
School board to vote on Trane proposal at next meeting
The Kershaw County Board of Trustees decided to hold off on voting on a proposal by HVAC company Trane to bring about a projected $6 ...
Crime Report (CPD) - Dec. 14, 2018
Camden Police Department (CPD) officers arrested a 30-year-old Camden man after he allegedly pointed a gun at a 24-year-old Cassatt man and that man's ...
Woman pleads guilty in MSC embezzlement case
A circuit court judge sentenced Stacey Heather Grein, 45, of Camden, on Dec. 3 for pleading guilty to one count of breach of trust with ...
Column: Top stories of the year (so far)
2018 is almost over. For us at the C-I, that recently meant going back and looking at stories, columns and other articles to submit to ...
HFKC hands out $181,000 in grants to local groups
There might not have been a better "thank you" Monday night inside Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site's McCaa Tavern than the one relayed by ...
Lugoff woman arrested for meth trafficking, more
On the morning of Nov. 15, the KCSO's Special Response Team (SRT) and narcotics agents executed a lawful search warrant at a Mockingbird Road ...
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