With potential for major new housing projects, commercial development and successful events, the City of Belton is looking for some major announcements by Summer.

The Caroline Community Center in Williamston celebrated Founders Day Saturday, with a tribute to those who made the center a hub for community engagement, support, and activity for residents of all ages.

The area of even more concern looking ahead is the intersection of the parkway at Concord Road, which is listed in the city’s comprehensive plan and prime for annexation and development.

Part of a more complicated issue on development standards, this story is developing. The City of Anderson, which passed new development standards in 2023 which are just going into effect with some of the new developments. Anderson County has hired a consultant to update and revise building and development standards countywide with the goal making such rules clear to the landowners and developers.

The Honea Path special election for mayor is set for July 15. Filing for the seat opens May 6 and closes May 20.  All candidate paperwork be completed and $100 filing fee must be paid at the Honea Path Town Hall.

The Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Anderson Class 40 is joining Vets Helping Vets of Anderson in their continued mission of serving local veterans in Anderson County and surrounding areas.

As part of the initiative, Class 40 will assist with enhancements to the group’s new building near Bleckley Street and contribute to the creation of visual and physical displays that honor the organization’s mission through hands-on service, collaboration, and outreach.

Senate Minority Leader Brad Hutto of Orangeburg introduced the resolution Tuesday extending “a formal invitation to the president of the United States to visit the plant and witness firsthand its impact on the Palmetto State and the nation.”

The invitation follows remarks by White House Trade Advisor Peter Navarro on CNBC last week criticizing the German automaker because it imports many of the parts it uses in its X series vehicles built in Spartanburg County.

Citing increasing demands from his full-time job as assistant professor of technology at Greenville Technical College, Honea Path Mayor Christopher Burton stepped down Tuesday night during the regular council meeting.

Burton, who was elected in 2019, said he is proud of his accomplishments as mayor.

“This decision was not made lightly,” Burton told the council. “I believe it is in the best interests of the town and with my career and family in mind.

Dahl said while the demand for yards continues to grow, the rug business and overall home décor market has been depressed for some time and never really recovered after the COVID pandemic. Then came inflation, an election year and now tariffs to add to the challenge to produce and sell rugs domestically.

After 46 years in operation, Orian Rugs will produce its last rug by early summer.

Staff reductions have already been going on for several months, so the closing of the rug factory will mean the loss of approximately 30 jobs, some of whom might be transitioned to the yard division.

The internationally sanctioned event brought cooks from more than a dozen states to Belton to compete for a chance to go to the national championships in September.

On an unseasonably cool Saturday morning, Palmetto High School Junior AFROTC joined a group of more than 100 walkers/joggers/runners to memorialize march with a 14-mile trek across in Anderson. Cadets who joined in the march will earn an Air Force Ribbon.

Lt. Col. Mike Creamer, who supervises the AFROTC program, and who has walked more than half of the actual route of the Bataan Death March himself, said it’s among the lessons he teachers his cadets.

Pendleton’s Greenville Street Market, located within the town limits at 719 Greenville Street, with offerings from local farmers, millers and other goods created in the area.

Not only do they offer local eggs, cheese and milk, they offer milk, half and half and lemonade in glass bottles. Local produce season is just around the corner, and in the meantime, they have a selection of fruit and vegetables from Florida to help fill the shelves.

The cost of vehicles made and sold in the U.S. could rise by an estimated $3,000 to $7,000 as a result, said Scott Baier, an economist at Clemson University who previously served on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush and has consulted for the Congressional Budget Office and the U.S. International Trade Commission.

In 2024, South Carolina imported billions of dollars’ worth of car parts, largely from Germany and Mexico.

Meanwhile the largest housing expansion in more than 100 years is under way in Pelzer, with more than 120 new homes now being built within the town limits. Anderson County has begun cleanup on the historic lower mill site in preparations for planning for future development.

Anderson County Council held a forum on education Thursday night at the civic center with the goal of building strong relationships between council and the school districts.

The forum was the second in a series and featured representatives from four of the five school districts.

A nearly completed Cheney Mill development district with new housing downtown headlines progress for the Town of Pendleton going into Spring. The project will bring 120 new housing units and expected to be open before summer.

It’s part of Pendleton’s goal to expand efforts to create an expanded walking downtown area, adding to such projects as the West Queen Street sidewalks and streetscapes, and future plans for the old oil mill property.

Did you Anderson County Museum is home to one of the most complete early 20th century harness shops in the Southeast?

Located on the upper parking lot at the museum is McGee Brothers harness shop and buildings, which operated in southern Anderson County in Starr for at least half a century. In 2005, the McGee family donated the structure and its contents to the museum, and a pair of master craftsmen from Arkansas spent months moving the shop and restoring it completely at the new location.

More than 25 volunteers, including many from Vets Helping Vets of Anderson and the Anderson Lights of Hope. joined the Home Depot Foundation on Tuesday to honor a local veteran who has spent his life volunteering to help others.

The group worked to take care of some much-needed repairs for the house of U.S. Coast Guard veteran Dennis Lavold, who is now 82. Lavold has been a driving force in volunteering to help others in the community, and as a co-founder of Anderson Lights of Hope (Lavold said he is a “Christmas guy”) has spent countless hours in service to the area.

The new Anderson facility offers comprehensive primary and preventive care and includes family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, counseling, psychiatry, and pharmacy assistance. The location will also offer service to those with chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. ​

The state Department of Motor Vehicles has fixed a glitch in its system that automatically disqualified 17-year-olds from registering to vote, ending a legal fight with the state American Civil Liberties Union, the civil rights group announced Monday.

Under state law, teenagers who will turn 18 by Election Day can register to vote up to 13 months in advance. One way of doing so would be for teens to check a box while applying for a driver’s license saying they want to register.