His ambitions extended far beyond the county lines; he ultimately built a 45 syndicate across four Southern states, which, for a time, stood as the largest faction within the Belk empire.

The offices on the ballot are of consequence. They include seats on the County Board of Education, school trustee positions across the county’s various districts and areas, seats in Homeland Park Water District and Piedmont Public Service District, and several watershed conservation boards whose work tends to be noticed most by the people who are closest to the water.

The one-hour debate mostly saw the five candidates agreeing with each other. But they differed on whether the senator’s primary job is to support Trump’s agenda.

South Carolina shoppers save approximately $3.5 million during tax-free weekend.

Anderson County Council is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the historic courthouse with a docket that includes a moratorium on approving, accepting or processing special exemption permits, reducing the planning commission from nine to seven members, and considering tax incentives for project promising 217 new jobs and a $215 million investment.

The railroad was not merely a convenience but the town’s first great organizing force. The Union Depot stood where the gazebo on the town square is now, and the line moved goods in and out, helping connect the local farms and, later, Jackson Mill to markets beyond the county. The railroad helped transform a plantation landscape into a town with a center, a schedule, and eventually a civic identity.

A decertified candidate for U.S. Senate should stay a choice for voters for the time being, a Richland County judge ruled Friday, just five days before early voting starts.

Community groups, offices, and departments decorate trees; the trees are auctioned; and the money goes directly to the Free Clinic, where it helps pay for care that many patients could not otherwise afford. Collins said the event typically raises between $50,000 and $80,000 a year, and that sponsors cover the costs, allowing the proceeds from tickets, trees, wreaths, and the silent auction to flow back into clinic programs.

The result, predictably, is a vacuum, and vacuums in moments like these do not remain empty for long. They fill with rumor, conjecture, and the small, corrosive suspicions that bloom when a hospital appears to be speaking in the passive voice while patients are left to wonder what, exactly, has happened to their records, their appointments, and their confidence in the system.

Andrews, the Democratic party’s candidate for the South Carolina United States Senate seat in November, said the death of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who she was to face in the election, did not so much reorder her mission as alter the field around it: the opponent changed, but the cause did not.

Early voting for the election will run Aug.5-7, from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., at the county election office at 301 N Main Street in Anderson. For voters choosing absentee by mail, the last day to receive an application is Friday at 5 p.m. While trying to avoid using public schools, since classes are just beginning, in some places that proved impossible, and is working with the districts to make the arrangement as orderly as possible.

AIT, which serves students from school districts 3, 4, and 5, is entering the year with about 1,200 to 1,300 students

“The reality is that healthcare systems are among the most heavily targeted industries because they manage critical services that can't simply stop operating. The objective isn't to become impossible to attack, but to become resilient enough that an attack is either detected early or fails to significantly disrupt patient care.”

It is a distinction that speaks to an unusual level of institutional achievement as one of only 25 police departments have managed to clear the requisite hurdles to receive this designation.

The City of Anderson’s new draft land-use rules offer a municipal manifesto, a 279-page attempt to remake the city’s rules around walkability, design quality, development standards and a more deliberate idea of what kind of place the city wants to be. Written by Houseal Lavigne consultants in conjunction with the city, the study proposes a Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that would replace the city’s existing zoning, subdivision, and related land-use codes with one streamlined document tied to the Comprehensive Plan adopted in 2025.

AnMed will return to the use of paper as clinical teams have reverted to the analog age. Patient care persists through established downtime procedures, where decisions regarding transfers, diversions, and the daily choreography of triage are guided, as ever, by a commitment to safety.

Things kick off Sept. 4 with the Cancer Association of Anderson’s “Hot Air Affair: Rising Above Cancer” which offers another full day of events Sept. 5 only to be joined by Celebrate Anderson Sept. 6, an event which aims to expand into a festival weekend that seems designed to turn the county’s bicentennial into a single, sprawling gesture of gratitude and self-regard.

AnMed Health was the victim of a cybersecurity attack on its network on Sunday, and has announced closing of all offices Monday to work on a solution.

Anderson City Council will consider whether to send to the Planning Commission a proposal to annex about 9.36 acres at 305 Edgebrook Drive for a subdivision of 15 houses, most on lots of roughly one-third of an acre, with none smaller than one-fourth of an acre.

It also makes Anderson the only county in the nation with such a potentially politicized method of zoning.