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.

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.