Anderson County Council on Tuesday approved the hiring of a consultant to aid in the rewriting/recasting of the county’s zoning ordinances.

Code Wright Planners will be paid $380,000 for working with the county to revise development standards for new home construction and subdivisions and make the regulations easier to understand for citizens and potential developers. The contract runs through April 2027.

After years of country music offerings, Rock and Roll Hall of Famers “Kool & the Gang” will headline this year’s Celebrate Anderson on Aug. 31. Kool & the Gang has performed continuously longer than any R&B group in history, and their groove of funk and jazzy arrangements have made them the most sampled R&B band of all time.

But that’s done by broadening and shifting the tax burden: 19.4% of filers would owe less in spring 2027, while a whopping 59.4% of filers would owe more; 21.2% would experience no change, according to the fiscal impact report by the state Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office released ahead of Tuesday’s first hearing on the bill.

CodeWright has worked with multiple counties and towns in North and South Carolina - including Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, Mills River, Weldon in North Carolina - to overhaul and clarify development standards. Their customization of unified development ordinances and zoning codes includes simplifying the language, more graphically driven design, an intuitive document structure that is easy to understand and continuous improvement.

Equestrians from across the Upstate welcomed a new member to the Dressage Foundation’s Century Club as Linda Hostetler and her horse made an appearance at the Upstate Equine Council’s Spring Fling Horse Show at the T. Ed. Garrison Area.

The club recognizes when the combined ages of the rider and the horse are more than 100 years, and with Hostetler 74 at age 77, and her horse age 24. Her trainer is Rachel Owens of Liberty Acres Dressage in Pendleton.

South Carolina drivers who pay as little as possible for their auto insurance would need to double their coverage under legislation passed Thursday by the Senate.

State-required insurance minimums set 18 years ago simply aren’t enough to cover any serious accident — and often, not even a minor one — which shifts costs to the people who aren’t at fault, senators said.