If you missed the debate put on by Walhalla Partners for Progress last night, no worries. Most of those in attendance — not related to the candidates — probably want their two hours back.

Seneca’s downtown won’t be rebuilt in a day, but what happened Oct. 11 is worth remembering.

We live in a time when people can meet the farmers who grew the food they’re about to buy for their families. Why should local news be any different?

A siren test by Duke Energy and emergency management officials in Oconee and Pickens counties will take place this morning. More than 60 sirens within 10 miles of the Oconee Nuclear Station will be tested for three minutes, starting at 11:50 a.m.

The Oconee County Council doesn’t need to be involved with U.S. Highway 123 between Seneca and Clemson.

Drivers have been dodging that steel plate covering a hole on U.S. Highway 123 South for months.

Few plants are as misunderstood as hemp. It looks like marijuana but can’t get people high because it doesn’t have marijuana’s THC content.

A sewer line is just a pipe in the ground — except when it helps to connect a community’s present to a future it would like to achieve.

William Henry Talley predicted he would be killed while working as a law enforcement officer. Famous for breaking up a large moonshine still at Jocassee, Talley reportedly said, “They will probably get me, but I will die in the discharge of my duty,” according to the Oct. 17, 1928, edition of the Keowee Courier.

We’ve been critical of Walhalla City Council’s tough-on-the-customer water billing system.

A two-year fight over which property owners could rent out Seneca houses — the short-term rental issue — ended this week with city council siding with people who rent their own houses for no more than 72 days a year.

Suicide awareness meetings are being held this week in the attendance areas of Oconee County’s three high schools.