Friday, April 4, 2025

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Review: MTP Whodunit Breathes Life into Murder

The play wastes little time inviting the audience to choose the killer. But as in all of Christie’s work, everyone is a good suspect and deceit, lies, secrets and misdirection lurk around every corner. As suspects drop one by one, there are false clues, visual misdirections and sleight of hand action to cast suspicion and doubt on all.

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School Dist. 5 Gives Initial Ok to Pay Board Members

Anderson School Dist. 5 approved a motion on Tuesday, pending legal review, to become the first district in the county to pay board members. Board members will be paid $300 per month, and the board chair will receive $350 per month if the process clears review.

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Local Film Showing Spotlights Truth of Homelessness

Local sponsors, Hill Elective and Robert Rainey have paid to rent the theater for the event, which is limited to the first 200 who register for a free ticket. Tickets here. The Salvation Army of Anderson, Hope Missions of the Upstate, Family Promise, South Main Chapel & Mercy Center, The Lot Project, Asher House and the United Way of Anderson County after the film will briefly address efforts to help ease homelessness and find affordable housing in Anderson.

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Eastern Engineered Wood to Bring 31 Jobs to Belton

Eastern Engineered Wood Products announced today plans to bring 31 new jobs and a $18.7 million investment to Belton for a new regional distribution center.

A wholesale distributor of engineered wood products, the new distribution center, to be located at 110 Milliken Drive in Belton, will service lumber dealers and component manufacturers in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

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Council Gives Initial Ok to Split Housing Moratorium Plan

The original plan called for a 60-day countywide pause in allowing new housing developments over 25 housing units without additional approval of full council. The hybrid plan approved would allow each council member to choose whether to pause building in their district.

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Sadlers Creek Ads EV Charging at Park

Sadlers Creek State Park is now one of 30 in South Carolina to offer charging stations for electric vehicles. Park visitors who pay admission fees will have free use of the chargers on a first-come, first served basis.

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History of President’s Day

Little attention was given to the presidents on the wall except on their birthdays in February. Each year on Feb. 22 we had a lesson on Washington on his birthday, and the same for Lincoln on his Feb. 12 birthday each year.

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County to Consider Transfer of Properties to Housing Groups

Anderson County Council will vote on a plan to donate 24 properties to non-profit corporations to help improve the challenge of finding affordable housing.

The measure, which will require three votes to pass, will use $2.1 million of a grant allocated funds to address affordable housing for these projects.

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What Does Congressional Budget Reconciliation Mean?

Republicans in Congress have begun taking their first steps on the long and winding road that constitutes the budget reconciliation process.

GOP lawmakers plan to use the special legislative procedure to enact substantial changes to border security, defense, energy and tax law, as well as major spending reductions. If they succeed, there will be no Democratic votes needed.

On the way, Republicans have to jump through the many, many hoops that make up the reconciliation process and comply with its strict rules.

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Arts Director Aims to Expand Community Involement

Erin Spainhour - daughter of Alex Spainhour, an influential art educator who led the Greater Anderson Musical Arts Consortium, and art educator Ellen Spainhour who taught at Westside High School - cannot remember a time when her life was not immersed in the arts.

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Dude Chat Helps Men Escape Isolation

It’s been more than a year since a pair of Anderson men took on the challenge of battling isolation and loneliness among men. It was during the COVID shutdown that Brock Elder was watching the AppleTV series “Ted Lasso,” that the idea was born.

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Artist, Educator to Retire from AU

Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers is in the final stages of completing one of her greatest finished work: a legacy of art and art education at Anderson University.

Mitchell-Rogers Oeuvre includes not only countless creations of her own, but a hand in the work of hundreds of students over her near-four decades at the school.

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Friends of Library Open Online Store

The Friends of the Anderson County Library have opened a new online store to support the work and mission of the library across the county.

The group is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) and volunteer organization that provides advocacy and financial support county's library system. The Friends is governed by a volunteer board that meets monthly.

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Community Counts on Intern’s Economic Instincts

His Anderson County Business Development Facebook page, which reports the latest news of comings and goings in business and industry in the county, now has more than 20,000 followers, and Sherman is often the first to report the coming of a new store or restaurant.

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Thayer, McDonald Nominated for Magistrate Posts

Former S.C. Rep. Anne Thayer and Jill McDonald have been nominated by S.C. Sen. Richard Cash, R-Dist. 3, to replace two retiring magistrate judges in Anderson County.

Thayer stepped down as representative for House Dist. 9 where she served from 2011-2024. During that time, worked on numerous committees and chaired the House Rules Committee.

McDonald Jill McDonald worked with the South Carolina Foster Care Review Board in Anderson County and has he has been recognized by Anderson School District One for her contributions to education.

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County Adds EMS Site, Sheriff Substation in Piedmont

The county will rent a 2,919 square-foot building in the complex, located at 2110 Highway 86 in Piedmont, for $6,250 per month. Officials suggest the new location for EMS and the Sheriff’s Office will provide better coverage and response times for that part of northern Anderson County.

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Council Moves Ahead on Leasing to Love Well Ministries

Anderson County Council gave second-reading approval on Tuesday to leasing a portion of the county’s property on Towers Street to Love Well, a residential treatment center for women seeking recovery from drug and/or alcohol addiction, drifted into an airing of grievances about the issue of homeless people in the city.

The four-month Love Well program will offer residential treatment for woman admitted with referral from Anderson County Drug Court, Public Defender’s Office, Detention Center, and/or the Solicitor’s Office.

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Chuck, Not Phil, Top Forecasting Groundhog

Staten Island Chuck, also known as Charles G. Hogg, has an accuracy rate of 85 percent. Chuck lives in New York City Staten Island Zoo, and despite being so reliable at foretelling the weather, his behavior can be a bit unpredictable. He once bit the hand of the Mayor of New York City. Chuck is predicting an early Spring for 2025.

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