Architects asked to redraw plans

Architects at work on plans to renovate and add to the 30-year old building that houses Oconee County’s Corinth-Shiloh fire station have been asked to go back to the drawing board, with the idea of scaling down the original cost estimate. Bill Box, president of the all-volunteer fire station near Clemson, made the announcement this morning as the department closed out a series of three public meeting to acquaint the community with the project. Box says originally the planned 6,300 square foot addition likely would have cost $640 thousand dollars. He says Corinth-Shiloh has a local bank willing to lend the money and four or five builders interested in the job. Box estimates the loan would require a payback of $45 thousand dollars a

year—money which Corinth-Shiloh intends to generate through community fundraisers.