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Lakefront vacation and rental property and Duke Energy’s Catawba Nuclear Station are the two biggest reasons the Clover schools have weathered several rounds of state budget cuts better than others in York County, the district schools chief said Wednesday.
“We’re lucky because of all the second homes on the lake and we have Duke Power,” Clover Superintendent Marc Sosne told an audience of Greater Clover Chamber of Commerce members and elected officials during a “State of the Schools” address at Clover High School.Second homes, unlike primary residences, are not exempted from property taxes for school operations under Act 388 and are taxed at a 6 percent assessment rate.
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Beth McHugh just wanted to get home. That was foremost in the Lake Wylie woman’s mind as she boarded US Airways Fight 1549 last year.
People, Places, & Things
Jim Wells of Lake Wylie said via e-mail: "Red sky in the morn, sailor take warn. Surely that old saying didn't apply to this beautiful red morning sunrise" recently on lake Wylie.
The 2009 year was exciting for the Tega Cay Anglers Club. It was our first full year as Tega Cay’s only club dedicated to a love for fishing, and we have learned and accomplished a lot.
The tense atmosphere surrounding a California police department plagued by booby trap attacks has been stepped up a notch following the latest threat against officers.
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In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender.
Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king's authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday. He was 86.
