For 16 years Mike Levasseur worked as a mechanic until one day he decided “it wasn’t fun anymore.”

Oconee and Pickens school officials are working to improve ways to prepare students for kindergarten after a statewide kindergarten readiness assessment report for all 82 school districts showed both lagging in that area.

Clemson city horticulturist Tony Tidwell and Clemson University landscape architecture professor Paul Russell recently presented to the Joint City-University Advisory Board two site plans for landscaping the U.S. Highway 76 and S.C. Highway 93 interchange.

Local and state leaders joined Schneider Electric officials as they marked Manufacturing Day, celebrated nationwide Friday, talking about the importance of manufacturing in the economy.

The atmosphere was festive in Pickens Friday afternoon as a large crowd waited for the opening of the time capsule buried at the Pickens County Courthouse during the county’s centennial in 1968. 

The “litter blitz” held in Pickens County on Sept. 21 collected less trash than the county’s first event in March, but that’s fine with county council chairman Roy Costner.

When Oconee County Council meets Monday morning for interviews with the last three candidates in the second round of interviews for county administrator, the council will once again be short one member.

Three Clemson University alumni who endured a multitude of horrors as prisoners of war while serving their country shared their stories Thursday. 

Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw addressed deputies Thursday morning at a normal weekly informational meeting.

With Westminster’s Music on Main series ending this evening, a bit of luck happened for a Saturday show from a second band. 

Pickens County’s swift water rescue personnel were recognized Monday night for their work before, during and after Hurricane Florence last month. 

Members of the Oconee County Special Rescue team and the Anderson City Fire Department partnered recently to help those impacted by floodwaters in Marion as a result of Hurricane Florence.

A singlewide mobile home was deemed a total loss in the aftermath of a home fire in Westminster on Thursday.

Gov. Henry McMaster will attend the opening of a time capsule buried outside the Pickens County Courthouse in 1968.