In a climate that’s given rise to terms like fake news and alternative facts, never has the public’s right to know how governmental bodies are functioning been more important.

In Thursday’s edition of The Journal, you read where the chairman of the planned agricultural center or FARM Center board, Stanley Gibson, went before an Oconee County Council committee Tuesday to request council consider designating millage to help the FARM Center both during construction and after for general operations.

You often hear it said some schools are “football schools” or “basketball schools.” If it weren’t the case already, West-Oak High School proved this weekend it has few equals when it comes to wrestling schools.

Friday nights in the fall are for high school football. With that sentiment, we couldn’t agree more.

Pointing out the names of the men whom the award was named for, Johnson Link said it was an honor to receive the Abernathy-Cox One Clemson Award at this week’s annual State of Clemson program.

Let’s tell it like it is — just as everyone among us has his or her own political leanings, so, too, do media outlets.

South Carolina doesn’t have an official groundhog as far as we know, but Georgia’s Gen. Beauregard Lee awoke Thursday morning with his shadow nowhere to be found.

With all the modern technology that connects us with one another, perhaps there is no longer any day on the calendar where the fax machine retains such a prominent role in our society as it did Wednesday.

Some problems don’t have easy solutions, and that’s what we took away last week as Oconee officials discussed measures to close loopholes allowing owners of unregistered boats to “leech” up to $75,000 in unpaid taxes off the county.

Like everyone else in Oconee, we were happy to hear from county officials this week that new safety measures at the Fall Creek access areas on Lake Keowee helped lead to a drowning-free summer at that park for the first time in recent memory.