The Anderson Emergency Soup Kitchen will soon have a new home in the former Roy’s Diner building at 1527 South Main. The final day of service at Roy’s is Friday. The closing on the building is scheduled for next week.

The district has five schools: Flat Rock Elementary, Iva Elementary, Star Elementary, Starr-Iva Middle and Crescent High. The district also joins school districts 4 and 5 as part of the Anderson Institute of Technology. Parental involvement has grown to the level it is creating parking challenges at school events.

Sponsored by Anderson County, the 400-yard timed runs will begin every few minutes beginning at 9 a.m., for ages five and up, with races grouped by age. Only manual wheelchairs will be allowed in the time events and a first-place medals will be awarded-the male and female winners in each category.

Clemson University has joined a growing list of schools banning TikTok on campus WiFi servers. Clemson announced the move in an email to students, faculty and staff Friday, stating that no one will be able to access the app while connected to campus servers beginning Monday.

Brenda Kelley has also been a teacher, assistant principal, principal, executive director of early childhood and elementary instruction, and Deputy Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services in the district.

Closer to the City of Anderson, two new roundabouts are slated within 100 yard of each other on Midway Road. One will be at a newly cut intersection for Harriet Circle south of the current site the road connects with Midway, and a second at the intersection of Midway Road and Crestview Road.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”

“Nobody does Independence celebrations like Williamston,” said Williamston Mayor Rockey Burgess, who led the parade..

Find out Aug. 19 how you stack up in first annual Anderson County’s Fastest Runners event, which offers runners of all age groups-discover their personal best time in sanctioned speed events between 9 a.m. and noon at the Anderson Lights of Hope/Anderson County Recycling property.

The 2023-2024 school year will kick off with a new principal at Pendleton High School, a new high school sport and free breakfast and lunch for all students. Christopher discusses these and other goals for the new year in this interview with the Anderson Observer.

Online registration at SC.Votes.org, must be completed before midnight July 9. A valid South Carolina driver’s license or S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles ID card are required for online registration. Citizens may also register in person at the Anderson County Voter Registration and Elections office in downtown Anderson.

A new provision would expand the South Carolina Youthful Offender Act to  allow those convicted of some nonviolent misdemeanors and low-level felonies to apply for those offenses to be removed from their criminal records. Violent crimes, such as domestic violence, and convictions that require the person to be added to the state’s sex offender registry are not included in the new law.

Anderson Police Chief Jim Stewart, Greer Police Chief Matt Hamby and Spartanburg Police Chief Alonzo Thompson told the crowd of their respective departments’ activities to promote community connections and public safety.

Tuesday's oral arguments will mark the second time since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal protections last summer that lawyers for the state and providers will present their arguments to the state Supreme Court. A 3-2 majority in January tossed a similar law that banned abortion once cardiac activity is detected, or at about six weeks and before most people know they are pregnant.

The historic courthouse downtown is the county’s most photogenic (and photographed) building, was dedicated on June 27, 1898, with a celebration of the “new” county seat facility which included elaborate fireworks and a procession of officials from the Hotel Chiquola.

Efforts are also continuing to raise funds to complete the oldest YWCA building in the state, a house which will be home to the museum when completed. The structure built in 1908 by Piedmont Manufacturing Co. as a home for single women working in the mill, which features the artifacts of everyday life in the mill village as the new home of Piedmont History Museum.

But few speakers on the state’s past are in more demand than Dr. Tim Drake, the State Program Manager for the Department of Pesticide Regulation, and Assistant Director of Regulatory Programs at Clemson University.

The group has been working in collaboration with the University of South Carolina Upstate to catalog a number of new historical collections which will now be available at the Piedmont location.

Nearly 99 percent of in-state students receive some form of state scholarship.