Last year witnessed more than 375,000 visits across branches, with checkouts topping 999,000 — nearing a million, Sutton noted hopefully — and 84,000 library cardholders, about 40 percent of the county’s population. Physical books led checkouts, trailed by digital ones, but non-traditional LEAP station items flew off the shelves: museum passes to Greenville’s Children’s Museum or Roper Mountain, state park admissions, fishing poles, and seeds from the seed library, stocked through a partnership with Anderson County Soil and Water Conservation. In total, patrons saved more than $7 million using these services, nearly matching the budget, by borrowing rather than buying.

Today is the day voters in Anderson School Dist. 3 will decide on the wisdom of building a new middle school to replace one built during the Eisenhower administration. A total of 154 early votes were cast in this referendum, and now it’s time for the rest of voters to voice their thoughts at the polls.

The incentives, pending review and other work, will effectively freezing the buildings’ assessed values at pre-rehabilitation level for seven years, allowing owners to invest in renovations without immediately paying for their ambition in higher tax bills.

Platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket say they are offering contracts similar to commodity markets that speculate on the future price of corn or oil — not outright gambling. But a growing number of states are rejecting those justifications, arguing the platforms are offering a backdoor to skirt state gambling regulations, particularly on sports.

The move would allow for an estimated $2 million in improvement of properties at 215, 217 and 219 South Main Street, by effectively freezing the buildings’ assessed values at pre-rehabilitation level for a set number of years, allowing owners to invest in renovations without immediately paying for their ambition in higher tax bills. The properties’ current combined fair-market value is $254,400. The resolution before Council would endorse the project so the Board of Architectural Review can undertake preliminary certification, examining design and investment details before offering final certification once the work is complete and allow participation in a special tax assessment for rehabilitated historic properties.

The library’s director, Annie Sutton, reminded the crowd that the new Anderson County Library Bookmobile is replacing the retiring bus that has been doing the rounds since 2004 and had “earned its retirement.” In that time, she said, libraries have gone from “quiet repositories of books” to “bustling community centers,” where you can borrow not just novels but board games, tools, and Wi‑Fi hotspots, and where “outreach” means showing up at festivals, daycare centers, senior residences, and the occasional manufacturing plant.

On Saturday night, the phones will take care of themselves, their internal clocks obedient to distant servers and statutes. The appliances, the microwaves and ovens and the digital thermostats with inscrutable menus, will require patience or neglect.

He is officially the Director of Community Impact at the United Way of Anderson County, but the title misses the informality with which people, spotting him at the back of a council chamber or in the corner of a fellowship hall, wave him over as if he were a neighbor who also happens to know where every door in town leads.

Around Anderson, the easiest way to find their produce is through the Clemson Area Food Exchange, an online farmers’ market with a drop-off site in downtown Anderson and others in towns across the region. There is also the more traditional route: restaurants. Vannette ticks off a list of downtown Anderson kitchens—The Common House, Sullivan’s, Maki Sushi, Earl Street Bar & Grill—that buy their greens and other crops, along with roughly 20 local restaurants across the Upstate.

“This bill makes our state more competitive, supports our marine industry, and encourages boat owners to keep their vessels registered right here at home. I’m proud to have co-sponsored from the beginning and worked with the counties to ensure the local impact is phased over time.”

The senators then voted 6-2 to reject a bill requiring all public school children to be vaccinated from measles — no longer allowing exemptions for religious reasons. In both cases, the “no” votes came from Democrats.

Anderson County Council approved tax incentives for a new industry, code named “Project Bento,” which would bring an $11.5 million investment and 202 jobs with average pay of $22.03 an hour plus health benefits. Annual payroll is projected at about $8.9 million dollars, with property taxes on the site rising from $14,800 in 2024 to an estimated $93,630 in 2026.

County Council also signed off on new rules for solar farms, tightened requirements for large townhouse projects and approved a series of economic development and airport items March 3, including incentives tied to other new jobs and tens of millions of dollars in private investment.

This spring marks the thirty-eighth iteration of the clinic’s signature fundraiser, “Walk with the Docs”—a name that invites inevitable confusion with canines, though leashed companions are welcome amid the strollers and retirees. Conceived nearly four decades ago by hospital physicians and clinic staff, the event has amassed $2.7 million and 7,500 miles of footfalls.

It is here, in the low sprawl between the City of Anderson’s advancing annexations and the steady quiet of Midway Presbyterian Church’s graveyard, that the South Carolina Department of Transportation is working to impose order of a particularly modern kind: not one, but two roundabouts, set within a hundred yards of each other. The project bears the faintly bureaucratic name of the Harris/Midway Crestview Intersection Project, but it is, in essence, a promise to turn a place of idling and irritation into a choreography of yield signs and circulating lanes.

Adjustments to land-use law, industrial recruitment, solar farms, opioid treatment, and airport leases headline the Anderson County Council agenda for Tuesday’s 6:30 p.m. meeting in the historic courthouse downtown.

Burns also praised the cooperative efforts of the county, “Teamwork Without Borders”—signaling a turn toward the mechanics behind the scenes. He sees a county government that imagines itself as a kind of extended family, blurring departmental lines in service of shared water, shared roads, shared days on the lake.

Construction should be complete in early June, punch list by midsummer, inspections to follow, staff training, keys handed over in mid-November, inmates—if all goes to plan—settled into their new bunks by Christmas.

The Anderson County Board of Registrations and Elections is reminding citizens of the City of Anderson of Anderson that voter registration for the April 7 municipal elections is March 8 at midnight.

Requiring an 11-by-13-inch poster or framed copy in every classroom in the state, alongside a “context statement” explaining its history, will reinforce the basis of the country and its laws, said Rep. Robby Robbins, one of the bill’s 47 Republican sponsors. Even better would be a commandment telling students to respect their teachers and principals, Robbins said. But the 10 from the Bible’s Old Testament could help guide students morally, the Summerville Republican said.

At the edge of the Alphabet Streets, where the old Appleton Mill once dictated the rhythms of work and worry, a crowd in winter coats had gathered Tuesday morning to watch a small rectangle of earth become something larger than its footprint: a fourth “Village Home” for The Lot Project, another modest attempt to bend Anderson’s housing story toward mercy.