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We Have Our Winner!

It’s official – our contest (which was sponsored by Support Local Vendors) is over, and we have our winner! We had a total of 34 entries, and as you can see by the graphic on the left (we used Random.org to randomly select the winning comment entry), comment number 11, left by Kathryn, was the winner.

All valid entries were numbered by date/time of entry, and this was the winning comment:



Door-To-Door Selling NOT a Scam

The Charlotte Observer is now reporting that the teens who are doing door-to-door sales in our area are not actually part of a scam at all. According to the article, they are college kids working over the summer to sell educational products to local residents.
The company, Southwestern Company, has had trouble in the past [...]



Smoking Ban Begins Saturday

Just a reminder that the smoking ban for the Town of Fort Mill goes into effect this Saturday (August 1). It’s amazing how quickly time goes by (is it REALLY almost August?). So head out to your favorite Fort Mill bar between now and Friday night and smoke it up, because after that, [...]



Food Recall: Alba-Brand Dry Milk

McClancy Seasonings Co., which is based in Fort Mill, has issued a recall for it’s Alba-brand dry milk products.
The company said the recalled products contain instant non-fat dry milk supplied by the Plainview Milk Products Cooperative that might be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail [...]



York Electric Cooperative is Planning Ahead

York Electric Cooperative (which handles electricity for over 40,000 customers throughout York, Chester, Lancaster, Union and Cherokee counties) is getting a $46.7 million federal loan to use to expand services, add substations and lay down transmission lines over the next several years.
This is the part of the article from The Herald that I like, though:
Because [...]



Lower Gas Bills Continue

When my family lived in New Jersey, we had atrocious gas bills. The first winter in the house we reached $300 one month to keep the house just north of “freezing our butts off.” We dreaded the winter months because we knew our utility bills would be out of this world. Prices [...]



Baldor-Dodge-Reliance Leaving Fort Mill

The company makes motors and generators for such things as commercial air conditioners and elevators. Based in Arkansas, they have decided to shut down the Fort Mill plant and are inviting employees to seek positions at their Kings Mountain, NC location, which has 400 employees. Production in Fort Mill will cease in mid-June.

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