Rusty Burns, the county administrator, said the observance is anchored this Sunday by Carolina Day events at Carolina Wren Park and the new Piedmont Riverfront Park, along with a countywide request that all Andersonians at home and at the celebrations join churches in ringing a bells at 2:45 p.m. as a loud, collective salute to the nation’s 250th anniversary and the county’s own 200th.

Seth Young, superintendent of Anderson School District 1, said that five or six years ago Concrete Primary and Powdersville Elementary had both reached capacity, each with somewhere between 750-825 students, and the district knew it had to make room before growth became a crisis.

The compromise laid out Wednesday by a panel of senators and representatives is not finalized, since legislators still need to sign off and get final approval from both chambers

At the Vdovichenko Bee Farm, the Vdovichenko family has been living inside that world for more than three generations, if one counts the great-grandfather whose hives helped start the line, and the mother who insisted that the family turn inherited bees into a real enterprise.

Incumbent S.C. Rep. Don Chapman, R-Anderson, who represents District 8, defeated challenger Sherry Hodges in Tuesday’s Republican primary runoff elections, taking 54 percent, or 4,183 votes. Chapman will face Democrat Demetrius Carson in the November general election. Chapman was first elected in 2022.

“Palmetto Walk Bike, South Carolina” said the move makes S.C. the 14th state to adopt such legislation law, and the first on the East Coast to allow stop-as-yield at stop signs and stop-then-proceed at red lights.

Music, though, was where his life seemed to open fully. He learned piano as a child on the farm, beginning with mail-order courses and the severe-looking books that came with it, and he kept at it long enough for the instrument to become not just a skill but a second language. Whether he was leading choirs, singing with groups, performing alone, or simply sitting at the piano at home and filling the house with song, his heart beat fastest and best when it was making music.

The celebration of the big day changes days year-to-year and is often lost in the "Dads & Grads" advertising frenzy. Father's Day falls on the third Sunday in June, and unlike Mother's Day, which has somber origins, Father's Day was created in 1909 by a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went around to local businesses to gather support for her idea, and on June 19, 1910, the state of Washington celebrated the first-ever Father's Day.

As early voting for the South Carolina primary elections closes, 3,610 have cast votes in Anderson County. This represents 2.97 percent of the 121,145 voters eligible to vote in this election.

The annual Piedmont Natural Gas Day B-4 Father's Day Car Show is scheduled for Saturday, with registration beginning at 8 a.m. The show is set to start at 10 a.m. and finish up around 3 p.m.

John and Dixie Benca have enduring memories of their first date. It was at the Steak and Ale Restaurant, where they both also worked, the site of many of the couple’s family memories and special events. Thirty-seven years later, the couple is planning to open the second site in the reboot of the Steak and Ale chain in Anderson. The Bencas, who own McGee's Scot-Irish Pub, a favorite spot in downtown Anderson for more than 30 years, are ready for the challenge of adding a new restaurant experience to the area.

What she seems to have learned above all is that the town’s future depends on a web of partnerships. Legislators in Columbia matter, Anderson County Council matters, and so do the people who show up for meetings, sponsor events, volunteer for recreation, or help restore a building on the square.

Anderson County Council approved a series of tax incentives on Tuesday, two of which bring the promise of new jobs and the third a new investment to expand an existing company’s operations.

The current budget proposal contains no property tax increase, and a two percent raise for county employees.

Williamston Mayor Rockey Burgess talks about growth as something to be watched, managed, and occasionally persuaded not to ruin the afternoon. With a string of new businesses moving in, the town’s biggest summer events are returning, and a heavily used public park is getting a round of improvements that Burgess is proud of the town’s progress.

In a town with so much history visible and still standing, the restoration of a two-story building on the village square aims to keep such structures a part of the community for generations to come.

Passenger service ended in 1951, and the building moved through later lives — offices, a furniture store, then abandonment — until Anderson Attorney Steve Krause, his wife Linda and a small circle of partners began imagining what it might mean to give the place back its original shape without pretending it could ever become what it once was.

In the first six months of Rick Sanders’ tenure as mayor, the has moved smoothly into the role as only one already deeply connected to the town might do. Sanders, who also owns Westy’s Antiques and the Lincoln Tap Room, said the job has suited him because it lets him do what he has always preferred to do: talk to people, knock on doors, and try to pull a community closer to itself. That instinct has is already shaping the town’s public life.

The proposed budget, with general-fund appropriations of $137,873,400 and a total millage ceiling of 83.2 mills, exclusive of debt-service millage to be set later by the auditor.