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.

There are dates in our history we remember more than others. If we were alive at the time, we remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news:

We get excited to see headlines in The Journal when one of our great manufacturing partners announces a multi-million dollar expansion and financial investment or when we welcome a new employer to Oconee County.

For the third day in a row, we find ourselves taking a hard stance on what is at its best abuse of power.

In Thursday’s edition of The Journal, we addressed Glenn Hart’s abuse of his power in asking the planning commission and thereby the council to remove governances that would in turn make him money.

Ignorance or greed … which is more dangerous?

The Journal and the city of Seneca partnered up last year to put on the first of what we hoped would be many Labor Day Brew & ‘Que events — a local barbecue cookoff and craft beer tasting with live music, a kids’ area with free pizza, cornhole boards and more.

Summer is quickly coming to an end in Oconee and Pickens counties, and teachers, students and support staff will soon be filling the halls of local schools for the beginning of a new school year. 

On Monday, we learned that Oconee County economic development director Richard Blackwell resigned his position after six years.

Typically we strive to report things as important as budgets passing and tax increases as quickly as possible.