The answer Anderson County settled on is R.E.A.A.C.T., a deceptively simple piece of software layered on top of a new records platform called Ingenuity. On a computer screen, it appears as a small, almost unassuming box on the face of the county’s online land‑records system.

In an attempt to get out of the starting gate legislation that would allow South Carolinians to bet on horse racing through a phone app, proponents are promising to hold the gambling to Palmetto State races only.

And those who want to make a wager must be present at the race to do so.

The Senate Finance Committee voted 12-6 Tuesday to advance the bipartisan proposal

The $5.8 million renovations, funded largely by the city’s hospitality tax, include walking trails, vast landscaping (50,000 plants, including 9,500 daffodils), environmentally friendly islands in the pond for the ducks/geese, a covered bridge architectural structure to improve visuals, additional areas for picnic tables and grassy play areas. The city also worked with the South Carolina Department of Transportation to turn Hiawatha Drive into a cul-de-sac, to increase safety in the area as well.

Anderson County Council approved on Tuesday measures to protect the integrity of the Planning Commission, limits on townhouse developments and for tax incentives for a growing local company and a new company.

Council seats 1, 5 and 7, now have opposition. In District 1, Councilman Chris Sullivan, elected in 2024, drew a challenger in Kelly Koonce. In District 5, the county council chairman, Tommy Dunn—on the board since 2008 and something of a fixed feature in the room—will face Josh Mann. District 7, long represented by Cindy Wilson, first elected in 2000, will share the ballot with Collin Alexander, who has chosen the year of her quarter‑century mark in office to ask voters whether they’re ready for a change. No candidate has yet to file for the Dist. 4 seat which will be vacated by Council Vice Chairman Brett Sanders at the end of the year.

The designers have tried to strike a balance between making the place more inviting and not tampering too much with its personality. The paths are meant to be friendlier to strollers of all ages and abilities, and the gathering spots are arranged to encourage lingering, the way parks did before everyone began to carry their own screens. There is a nesting-habitat island out in the water now, a sort of tiny, floating cul‑de‑sac for birds.

Spring is special in a town which features a historic mineral spring which has watched a large park grow around it. It is a season where Williamston is stirring with a quiet determination—a town not rushing headlong into tomorrow, but inching forward with the steady grace of a mill wheel turning anew.

The state’s partisan primary filing fees are set at one percent of the total salary for the full term of the office, with a minimum of $100, and the money helps pay for the primaries themselves. Only candidates seeking a party’s nomination in the primary are required to pay; those who come to the ballot by convention or by petition are spared the charge.

Spring is a season of growth for the City of Anderson. A newly renovated park, innovative road work, and progress on new retail business and housing projects downtown are all sprouting up, according to Mayor Terence Roberts.

Council is expected to give final approval to tax incentives for Vertiv Corporation’s $17.84 million facility upgrade at 400 Supreme Industrial Drive for electrical switchgear manufacturing projects to create 53 new full-time jobs averaging $32.27 hourly (plus benefits), within a 5-year investment period under a 40-year FILOT with six percent assessment ratio and fixed millage of 0.35901 mills. Special source credits apply at 75 percent for years 1-10 and 50 percent for 11-20, secured in the 2010 Greenville-Anderson Park; failure to meet minimums triggers retroactive termination.

Tucked into Fire Station 1 on McDuffie Street, the Anderson Fire Department’s museum gleams as like a “hidden gem,” its relics salvaged from barns and city storerooms by prescient forebears who refused to consign century-old engines to oblivion.

The city, working with state and regional transportation officials, is preparing to install an adaptive traffic signal system along Clemson Boulevard, a project known formally as the Clemson Boulevard Adaptive Signal Project. The adaptive signal system will operate at signalized intersections along U.S. 76 (Clemson Boulevard) from the I‑85 interchange east to Cinema Boulevard, covering the full commercial corridor in between.

At the center of this new activity is a project that has hung over Honea Path for a generation: the fate of the old Chicola Mill. For roughly 25 years, the property has lingered in a limbo familiar to mill towns across the South—no longer an engine of employment and identity, not yet anything else, a hulking question mark at the edge of town.

Green Pond’s future lies in a slightly altered angle of descent. The original conceptual drawings for the site called for a six‑lane deep‑water ramp, but for years the facility operated with only three. To expand it in time for 2027, the county had to confront a geological fact: beneath the top layer of soil and “rippable” rock at the shoreline is a thick, stubborn vein of blue granite. That granite, blasted once already during the construction of an ADA parking lot and the original ramp, now wraps the shoreline as erosion control, lines roadways as vehicle barriers, and has been trucked to other Corps‑of‑Engineers properties for use in their own projects.

The House approved two income tax bills Tuesday immediately after passing a $15.4 billion spending plan that didn’t factor in their revenue losses.

The votes sent one bill, which lowers state income tax rates, to the governor’s desk. Republicans tout it as a tax cut, though many South Carolinians will pay more next year under the changes. Democrats blasted the bill as a tax increase on working people. The other bill would temporarily apply federal tax cuts to state income taxes.

With 1,771 votes cast, representing a 20.91 percent voter turnout for the referendum, 926 voted in favor of the new school while 845 voted against it.

On Saturday, PAWS (the Anderson County animal shelter) will turn briefly into a kind of doggy Irish street fair, minus the Guinness but heavy on the treats. The Lucky Paws adoption event, a St. Patrick’s Day–themed afternoon running from noon to p.m., will feature rescue dogs, cats, and a curated lineup of local vendors—a lavender farm, a personalized pet-treat maker, a coffee truck, and a cart called the Frozen Frog that deals in carnival-style snacks—arrayed in the parking lot like a pop-up Main Street for animals and the people who post about them.

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.