Four weeks from today, voters will step into voting booths across Oconee and Pickens counties and throughout the state of South Carolina to cast their ballots in the general election.

When we kiss our spouse and children on our way to another shift at work, we probably don’t think that moment could be the last time we see our loved ones on Earth.

As we were growing up, we were taught to respect and trust those who held some kind of authority over us — parents, grandparents, babysitters, teachers, church leaders, neighbors, military servicemen and servicewomen, firefighters, law enforcement officers and others.

On Saturday morning, a group of people are planning to gather in the Utica community near Seneca and go through the neighborhood picking up trash.

In Oconee and Pickens counties and throughout South Carolina, there are people — mostly women and children — living in fear for their lives.

Oconee County Council will have the first of two meetings this morning to begin in-person interviews with five candidates for the vacant county administrator job.

Imagine you had a chance to be heard on something that may be important to you and you were disqualified a month before your time to be heard.

It probably sounded like a simple request when Clemson University Undergraduate Student Government president Mason Foley and Bubba Britton of the Clemson University Alumni Association asked city officials to give the go-ahead for a block party on College Avenue in Clemson.

Last week, Jared Ketterman, CEO of JKAT LLC, announced the company was releasing its purchase agreement to buy a 4,200-square-foot city-owned building that had once been the Walhalla Fire Station headquarters and currently houses public restrooms in downtown Walhalla.

The public session at Tuesday’s Oconee County Council meeting was filled with people voicing opinions on a controversial amended ordinance called the Oconee County Animal Control Act.

For more than 35 years, the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic in Seneca has met a need in our community by offering affordable and accessible quality health care to those who need it.

For more than a day, Hurricane Florence has brought a deluge of rainfall and damaging winds to the coasts of North and South Carolina, and the storm is expected to have at least some impact later this weekend on Oconee and Pickens counties, as well as the rest of the Upstate. 

By now, you probably know a storm is coming. 

A shooting Monday that left two people dead outside a mobile home in the Utica community near Seneca was only the latest example of the ongoing problem of drugs and violence that has plagued the neighborhood.