It seems most every week or month nowadays has some designation attached to it aimed at promoting a cause or bringing awareness to an issue.

An emergency scanner sits in our newsroom, and it chirps and buzzes intermittently pretty much all day every day.

South Carolina has been generally accommodating to the federal government’s nuclear waste disposal needs over the decades, based on the promise that the highly radioactive material would be eventually shipped out of Savannah River Site to a permanent storage facility.

A recent post that made the rounds on social media suggested: “The future of news is 3,000 outlets blowing up your phone about a resignation at the White House and nobody investigating school boards.”

In striving to place as many adoptable pets into homes as possible, Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s call for variable pricing for county shelter pets makes so much sense you kind of wonder why the change hasn’t already been made.

Hopefully over the last couple weeks you’ve read our series on the School District of Oconee County’s salary structure, and we hope you found it informative.

We hope you saw our coverage of Gov. Henry McMaster’s visit to Oconee County in Thursday’s edition and, perhaps not surprisingly given that he was speaking at a Chamber of Commerce function, his message was all business.

We’ve often opined in this spot how the myth that newspapers are struggling is more a case of some outlets having poor business models — rushing to cater to perceived demand for digital products and social media content — than any real change in their importance within a community or society as a whole.

With fall now upon us, October is right around the corner, and both Oconee and Pickens county councils have passed proclamations recognizing it as National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Health care seems to be a perennial issue in our country. We can’t agree about how it should function.