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The last remaining free, volunteer emergency medical service in York County may be gone soon. River Hills/Lake Wylie EMS leaders are considering transitioning the free service started in July 1980 to fee-based.

Grabbing a cup of coffee on the go could be easier than ever in Lake Wylie. Dragstrip Joe’s Drive-Thru Coffee opened Tuesday at S.C. 49 near Carroll Cove Road offering regular and decaf coffee at $2 for 20 ounces.

he skeletal remains found late last month off a wooded Steele Creek road close to Lake Wylie have been identified as those of a Gaston County man

Police have identified a man whose skeletal remains were found in the woods near the Buster Boyd Bridge last month.

March promises to be a big month for Lake Wylie's streams and tributaries, where local environmentalists and municipal leaders say they need all the help they can get. York County Council Chairman Buddy Motz and Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols last week announced dates for the Great American Cleanup, a national effort localized in York County to include education about and opportunities for waste reduction. York County Adopt-A-Stream will kick off March 20, beginning the program approved in October by the council.

As politicians plead poverty, Kim and Brian Garhart of Clover plead for a chance at a regular life for their autistic 4-year-old son, Nolan. Yet South Carolina lawmakers are considering a proposed $48 million cut in funding for state programs that serve special needs children.

State Rep. Ralph Norman will seek a full term in the state House when his one-year stint ends in November. The Rock Hill Republican won a special election last fall to finish the unexpired term of former Rep. Carl Gullick, who resigned and moved to Kentucky.

The River Hills Lions Club's annual May 7 Golf Tournament and Business Expo at River Hills Country Club will be sponsored by Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville. The hospital was incorrectly named in the Lake Wylie Pilot. We apologize for the error.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released photographs of a shirt and pocket knife found next to human skeletal remains found Feb. 22 the 1600 block of Strollaway Road near Lake Wylie.

After lowering the total project cost below the $1 billion mark, the North Carolina Turnpike Authority is now “absolutely committed” to constructing the entire 21.9-mile Garden Parkway toll road from I-85 in Gaston County to I-485 in Mecklenburg County.

Parkway officials met with Gaston County leaders today to update the project at Gaston College East Campus, saying the road should be open to traffic by 2014 and should reach the full stretch. Last year, the authority said the road may need to be shortened in the near term, ending at U.S. 321 instead of connecting all the way to I-85. Last year’s estimated project cost reached $1.28 billion. Now, said chief engineer Steve DeWitt, the cost is $928 million. The difference of $352 million comes from the elimination of one interchange and a redesign of three others, along with a reduction from four lanes to two west of U.S. 321.