| Families struggle to keep their homes
Barry Cameron, his wife, Lisa, and their 8-year-old son, Clay, walk past their former home on Solar Drive Dover Township. The house slipped into foreclosure after the Camerons could not keep up with the monthly mortgage payments. The couple sold the property in March through a deal that netted the Camerons enough money to buy a mobil home less than 1 mile from Solar Drive.<br />· <a href="http://w2.ydr.com/forms/sendPhoto.php?photo=25598">E-mail photo</a><br />· <a href="http://ydr.mycapture.com/mycapture/lookup.asp?originalname=041007-BIL-WALKPAST.jpg">Order photo reprint</a><br /> .
School board election set for Tuesday
Maynor added, “The students of Bamberg School District One and Two (are) our hope to ensure our towns in Bamberg County grow and continue to grow. With my passion for the education and social success of our students and my political background, I am confident that I can assist the Bamberg School District 2 Board of Trustees. And, I have never been known as a 'yes man.'"Maynor served in the U.S. Army and is a Vietnam veteran. He is an active member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Olar, where he serves on several auxiliaries.Maynor is married to Mary Reed Maynor, and they are the parents of four children and five grandchildren.Beverly Hicks-FrazierAlso vying for Seat 5 is Beverly Hicks-Frazier who graduated from Denmark-Olar High School in 1994 and from Claflin University in 1998.“There is a need to come together and support our school district, our children and our teachers," Hicks-Frazier said.
Town Decrees Solar Panels Ugly, Family Fights Back
I always find amusing the rules that some of my friends around the country must abide by when living in community housing developments. Your grass can only be so high, children's toys must be kept to a minimum outside, your house can only be certain shades of color, etc. etc. It's a frightening utopia of meaningless laws and trivial worry. When I heard that the town of Scarsdale denied a family the opportunity to put up solar panels — on the basis that they were ugly and "not in keeping with the character of the community" — I immediately wanted to cry/laugh. You have got to be kidding me. But then I thought that such reactions are probably not too uncommon. We live in a world with designer water, designer shampoo, and animal spas. People have become so accustomed to modular cookie-cutter homes with white picket-fences and weed-free sidewalks — that they've actually forgotten there's a world of people out there who could care less and actually would like to live a unique existence; with character and vision for their own lives.
Bellevue annexation plan raises questions
Bellevue and Blaine County citizens raised concerns last week with a developer's proposed housing layout and inclusion of a light-industrial/commercial area in a 281-acre annexation proposal under discussion in Bellevue. Landowner John Scherer's development team discussed three different aspects of the annexation request—housing, zoning criteria, and wildlife—at a Bellevue Planning and Zoning meeting Thursday, April 5. While the wildlife discussion skated through uncontested, the housing and zoning criteria presentations sparked debate among both the P&Z and a small but vocal group of the public. Richard Schaefer, architect for Scherer's development, provided a detailed description of the different types of housing that would be built, as well as where they would be located on the annexed property, which lies south of Bellevue and east of the Gannett-Picabo Road.
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