It is the season of the witch in Belton, as the city gets ready for the annual ghost walk set to begin Thursday at 6 p.m. The first departure from Belton’s old train depot will be followed every 15 minutes until 8:15 p.m. There is no train leaving the station for this event, although passengers will be invited to consider the possibility that not everyone associated with their destinations has entirely departed.

As of Friday, more than 430 people scheduled to work Anderson County’s polls for the Nov. 3 election, but more are still needed for rural areas.

The justices heard arguments Oct. 14 in Tonya Winbush’s challenge to the invalidation of her apparent victory in the April 7 election. The court will now deliberate before issuing a ruling, a process that could take weeks or months, according to Winbush’s attorney, Christopher P. Kenney. Until then, Anderson City Council remains one member short. City officials have said the district is being temporarily represented by Anderson’s two at-large council members.

It’s official: President Donald Trump is returning to South Carolina next week to rally support for Sen. Darline Graham and other Republicans ahead of the midterms. The rally will be Wednesday in Clemson. The scheduled start time is 7 p.m., the Republican National Committee announced Thursday evening. The announcement did not say where in Clemson.

One of the callings of any museum is to be the caretaker of old things. And this time of year, when thoughts drift to the antiquities, they often end up in tales of the supernatural.

Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election begins Monday at four locations in Anderson County. Voters can cast ballots through Oct. 31. Early voting centers will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.

With a jolly ho-ho-ho, West Pelzer christened a new, official home for Santa Claus on Tuesday. The new building, Gaines Hall in Chapman Park, was named in honor of Johnny Gaines who served as West Pelzer mayor for 24 years.

Construction is under way on the two-story AnMed Education and Innovation Center at 610 North St., near East Greenville Street. The facility will provide clinical classrooms, collaborative workspaces and administrative space to support the college’s Associate Degree in Nursing program.

“200 Years in Anderson County,” a new volume commemorating the county’s bicentennial, extends beyond 600 pages and could easily have been twice as long. Its 20 chapters move from Cherokee history to the county’s future, making room along the way for textile communities, railroads, churches, schools, businesses, hospitals and the people who built lives around them.

The debate featured an all-female stage, a first for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina, on the three-month anniversary of the shocking death of Lindsey Graham, which reset the race.

Anderson City Council will give final vote on a proposal to annex and rezone 31.5 acres at 216 Vandiver Road as part of tonight’s meeting at 6 p.m. in council chambers downtown.

The developing petitioning for the annexation plans to construct a 62-lot single-family residential subdivision on the property which borders Vandiver Road and is just behind T.L. Hanna High School.

Moving a festival indoors is not quite the same as moving a meeting indoors. The vendors still needed space. The performers needed somewhere to perform. Children’s activities, art demonstrations and visitors all had to fit into an arrangement that made sense.

The “Conversations on a Bench” event was part of a national effort to bring homelessness into public discussion, the questions were local: Where can someone sleep tonight? What keeps a family from finding housing?

An intersection can be cleared of roadside advertisements and, a few weeks later, look as though no one has touched it. For Matthew Stipe, the director of Anderson County Environmental and Code Enforcement, this is part of the cycle his office must deal with on a daily basis.

The festival will move indoors to Riverside Middle School (the building that previously housed Pendleton High School), 7324 S.C. Highway 187, due to a forecast rain and high winds associated with Hurricane Isaias, town officials announced.

That gap between childhood reassurance and adult uncertainty provides “Avenue Q” its comedy and its warmth. The Market Theatre’s production, directed by Clare Shaffer, brings Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s songs and Jeff Whitty’s book to Anderson with an eight-person cast, a collection of locally built puppets and a neighborhood full of people whose lives have not gone according to plan.

The idea came to Anderson School Dist. 5 Board Chairman Tommy Price in church, though it concerned a different kind of congregation - the more than a thousand students attending Robert Anderson Middle School. District 5 for some time has been considering how to reduce that number. Returning Southwood Academy of the Arts to use as a traditional middle school would create another place for students, but it would also displace an arts program that had developed its own following.

The organization operates a Sexual Trauma Center and a Child Advocacy Center, providing free services to survivors of sexual assault and child abuse. During the first nine months of 2026, it served nearly 1,600 people, including approximately 700 children.

Two Anderson locations are part of this week’s Citygate Network’s nationwide Conversations on a Bench initiative, which will run from 3 p.m. Thursday until 3 p.m. Friday.

Nationwide, rescue missions, recovery centers, outreach groups, and other ministries across North America will host a 24-hour livestream of conversations about homelessness, addiction, and mental health.

Anderson County Councilman Elgin, a retired law enforcement officer, said he discussed the idea with Anderson County Sheriff Chad McBride, who is on board with the ban.