Former State Rep. Claude Marchbanks, who died last week at age 96, was remembered Monday as a dedicated public servant — from his time as a Pickens County councilman to the dozen years he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives starting in the mid-1980s.

More than 700 people from Foothills Church went “outside the walls of the church” to pick up trash, wash cars and help elderly and disabled people and several schools and nonprofits Saturday morning without asking for anything in return.

William Henry Talley joined the Oconee County Rural Police Department in 1926 and served until he died from wounds, including a fractured skull, sustained while responding to a call in Salem, according to an Oconee County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority executive director Chris Eleazer said he received official word Monday that the sewer authority had received a $3.7 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to connect sewer lines from the Golden Corner Commerce Park to Exits 1 and 2 of Interstate 85 in Oconee County.

A 47-year-old woman died Saturday night after a rollover wreck near Westminster, according to Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis

Scarecrows are taking over this town ahead of the annual Fall Harvest Festival.

Now that Clemson City Council has given unanimous final approval to an amendment banning tobacco use except for designated areas at all city parks and ball fields, parks and recreation director Jay Bennett said approximately 25 signs will be ordered next week.

On Friday, Furman University professor Danielle Vinson taught a class on Congress in a room filled with upperclassmen and political science majors and a separate introduction to American government course to a class comprised of mostly freshmen. 

With the nation in a whirlwind over a potential impeachment of President Donald Trump on the issue of whether he withheld foreign aid and asked Ukraine to investigate a political rival, a Clemson University professor said the situation is unprecedented. 

Convicted school shooter Jesse Osborne will appear in the Anderson County Courthouse for a sentencing hearing in less than two months.

Carousel music mixed with bellowing calves and the squeals of delighted children Friday night as the Carolina Foothills Heritage Fair welcomed the weekend crowd.

Three years after the idea was first proposed, a new turning entrance into the Southern Wesleyan University campus off S.C. Highway 93 in Central has been completed.