The marker commemorates the General's Road, and its story is Anderson's story — which is to say it is the story of how a dirt path through the South Carolina Piedmont became a county seat, and how a county seat became a city, and how, somewhere in that transformation, the original name got left behind like a trunk in an attic no one thought to open.

Anderson County, which has watched development pressure arrive from the north and east with the steady intensity of a growing storm, decided last year that this was no longer acceptable. In April 2025, county council approved a $380,000 contract with CodeWright Planners, LLC, a firm with an unusual specialty: working with the county on reasonable standards and making those planning and zoning codes readable.

According to the latest soundings by the Winthrop Poll—a survey of 1,434 residents conducted by Winthrop University’s Center for Public Opinion & Policy Research—the mood of the electorate is decidedly overcast. Most of the state’s residents view the current economy with a jaundiced eye, and fully half report that their financial footing has slipped compared to where they stood a year ago.

The job had a title — assistant superintendent for communications and community relations — but the actual work, was something closer to institutional connective tissue: the person who knew the sheriff and the city council member and the state legislator and the nonprofit director, and who understood, from long practice, that those relationships were not incidental to the work of running a school district. They were the work.

Early voting for the June 9 South Carolina Primary is seeing record numbers turn out with 1,879 votes cast in Anderson the first two days. Early voting continues through June 5, Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m..

The argument for impact fees begins with arithmetic, not ideology. Anderson County is managing more than 174,000 acres of farmland, more than 3,000 centerline miles of public roads, a labor force of 103,346, and watersheds that already include impaired subbasins — all while absorbing new subdivisions and the traffic, utilities, and school demand that come with them. The county's plan says plainly that it does not want to morph into generic sprawl, even as it accepts that growth is coming whether it invites it or not.

"Neither my conscience nor common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway," said Cash. "I understand the anger and frustration that we could not pass our redistricting bill any faster, but the rule of law is the bedrock principle of our constitutional republic and, I'll emphasize, it is also a bedrock principle of conservatism."

Clemson University has chosen Kevin Guskiewicz to be its next president, selecting him unanimously after a national search that, for the institution, amounted to a rare act of succession: he is only the second president named in the past 27 years. The choice, announced Wednesday by the Board of Trustees, places a neuroscientist and veteran higher-education administrator at the helm of one of the state’s most visible public universities.

A GOP push to overhaul South Carolina’s congressional map ended Tuesday, as a record-setting start to early voting prompted Republican senators to abandon their support.

The 26-18 vote to effectively kill the bill requested by the White House included 14 Republicans.

The library’s next three years will be organized around four goals: expanding access, improving communication, building outreach and community partnerships, and creating “a place to belong.” Those goals, she said, grew directly out of what people said they wanted from their libraries: more programming after work and on weekends, later hours, clearer wayfinding, better marketing, and a fuller understanding of what the system already offers.

Honea Path celebrated the town’s annual Memorial Day event Monday morning with remarks from local elected officials challenging those in attendance to honor those who gave their live in service to the United States.

Despite the threat of thunder rand rain moving in Sunday afternoon, Iva marked Memorial Day weekend 2026 with a service honoring and remembering those from the town who lost their lives in service to their country.

Friday night at the Anderson County Civic Center came alive, giving birth to fond memories, as “The Come Dream With Me” prom returned with a circus theme — “Under the Big Top” – and filled the building with more than 138 special-needs friends from Anderson County and surrounding communities, along with the people who showed up to make the celbration work.

The turning of dirt marks the start of the fifth such home built through the Lot Project, and the latest class of Leadership Anderson has taken it on as its annual act of civic authorship, translating managerial talent and community pride into wood, labor, and the promise of a roof for those who are on the streets. The Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce speaks of Leadership Anderson in the language of legacy, and in this case the word does the work it ought to do: this is the 41st class, following four decades of projects meant to leave the county a little sturdier than it was found.

There are ceremonies around Anderson County to remember the our servicemen and servicewomen and their families who paid the ultimate sacrifice, Sunday in Iva, and services Monday at 10 a.m. at Dolly Cooper Cemetery, Honea Path and Pendleton. The Pelzer event has been rescheduled for May 30 from 4-6 p.m. County, state and federal offices will be closed Monday.

“If you can’t suspend the rules, the earliest the Senate could pass something is when you have tens of thousands of people standing in line to vote already,” Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, among the “no” votes, told reporters.

Pastures tended by farming families for generations are being surveyed and staked. The announcement signs go up first, rendered in the optimistic typography of the developer’s imagination: “Coming Soon. New Homes from the Low $300s. A Community Built for You.” What those signs do not say, and are not required to say, is what was there before.

Senators will begin debate Thursday on a bill redrawing the state’s congressional districts, a day after South Carolina’s election chief told them a second set of primaries will cost between $5 million and $6 million.

Early voting for the June 9 South Carolina Primary elections begins Tuesday and runs through June 5, Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m..

All early voting locations will be open for any potential runoff elections as well. Those dates are June 17 and June 18. Runoff elections, if needed are will be held June 23. 

Anderson County Council approved the amending of the zoning map in the Center Rock Voting Precinct, gave the go ahead for live streaming of county planning committee meetings, a ground lease agreement for new hangars at the Anderson Regional Airport and the Anderson County Comprehensive Plan as part of Tuesday’s meeting in the historic courthouse downtown.