The town took its name from John Belton O’Neall, the president of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad and a justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. Darby said that Josephine Brown, daughter of Dr. G. W. Brown, who had sold land for the town, admired O’Neall and suggested a variation on his middle name.

By a vote of 452 to 95, Center Rock residents approved a zoning map for their precinct, choosing a system that will guide the uses, density, lot sizes, setbacks, and development patterns permitted there.

In Anderson County, Norman was on top with 3,672, or 31.5% of the vote, with Incumbent Darline Graham close behind at 3,521, or 30.2% of the vote. Russell Fry received 1,663, or 14.3% of the vote.

On Tuesday night, AnMed said it had made “significant progress” in restoring systems and communications following the July 26 incident. The health system said care teams now have full read-and-write access to electronic health records, allowing clinicians to view and update patient information electronically rather than relying on temporary workarounds. Beginning at 7 a.m. Wednesday, patients will again be able to call physicians’ offices and other departments directly during regular service hours with questions about their car

Anderson City Council on Monday night gave initial approval to annexation of 9.36 acres on Edgebrook Drive, moved ahead on new development ordinances, and approved a contract to update radio communication equipment for the City Fire Department.

On Tuesday, the special election is set to decide who will replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on the ballot for the United States Senate seat in South Carolina.

The UDO consolidates the city’s zoning, subdivision, and development rules into one document to make the rules of growth both more legible and more exacting — to give builders greater flexibility in some places while asking them to provide more in return to protect the character of neighborhoods.

There are Greenwoods and Beltons elsewhere, said Justin Thomas Atkins, artist and owner of Honea Path’s Fiddle & Bow, but only Honea Path holds the claim to a unique name.

The applicant of the proposed Water Oak subdivision would contain 15 custom-built, detached single-family homes on the cul-de-sac, and a green space park. Most lots would exceed 15,000 square feet, with one at 12,000 and two at just under 11,000 square feet

The year's marathon of activity will stretch into the autumn, marked by a sprawling bicentennial parade in October. Burns has issued an open casting call, urging anyone with a concept—even a grandmother with an idea for a float—to participate. Then, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a newly enlarged downtown Christmas tree will be illuminated and, in a break from previous years, left to glow through the remainder of the holiday season

The story of the Whitners is, in the old Southern style, both ancestral and infrastructural. It is a family biography told in churchyards, legislative chambers, and power stations.

The work is a little like standing in the wings of history and stormy weather at once, preparing for hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, winter storms, cyberattacks, and the less photogenic sort of crisis that arrives at 4 a.m. and requires everybody else to wake up.

Anderson County Council on Tuesday approved tax credits for a Belton-Honea Path area concern promising new investments and jobs, reduced the number of planning commission members from nine to seven, and approved a moratorium on special exception permits.

David Childers and Jason Ringenberg, two veteran Americana figures with enough mileage between them to make a genre feel like a family tree, will be backed by the Carolina Serpents, Childers’s band renamed for the occasion since Ringenberg will be taking the lead as well. The two are expected to trade songs with a certain amount of hard-earned authority.

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.