Mental Health Court to be established

South Carolina Chief Justice Donald Beatty believes there’s demonstrated need for a mental health court in Anderson County to divert mentally ill persons from jails.  In an order this week, Beatty appointed At-Large Judge Cordell Maddox to preside over the Anderson Mental Health Court and Judge Lawton McIntosh as his backup.  The chief justice acknowledged that David Wagner, 10th circuit […]

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Two judgeship hopefuls deemed qualified

After hearings late last month, two attorneys have been deemed qualified and nominated to run for a vacant judgeship in the 10th Circuit of Oconee and Anderson counties.  It’s a seat belonging to Anderson County.  According to the state’s Judicial Merit Selection Commission, the two are David Brousseau, attorney in Anderson, and Heather Vry Scalzo, attorney in Greenville.  A vote […]

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Exceeding the speed limit on Main Street

On Westminster’s Main Street, between Lucky and Isundega streets, motorists are violating the 25 mile an hour speed limit.  As a deterrent, the city will get prices on speed bumps.  The speed bumps the city has in mind will be of a plastic type, not the kind that loosens a driver’s fillings.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, describes the speed bumps […]

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Lawsuit settlement to mean a bump in utility charges

The city administrator says a pre-trial settlement of a lawsuit among parties with Westminster’s electric power supplier means the city will have to raise its retail electric power rates.  Administrator Kevin Bronson made the prediction last night, as the city council approved his recommendation to settle the case of Greer and Rock Hill versus the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency.  The […]

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Mid-day tomorrow target to lift advisory

Westminster expects the results this morning of the first set of water samples from yesterday’s tank emptying in the Unity Community off highway 76.  That tank has since been refilled, but the boil advisory for customers in that vicinity remains in place.  With the hope, Kevin Harbin says, of lifting the advisory around mid-day tomorrow.  Harbin, the utilities director, says […]

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At Charleston, Scott stands with Israel

South Carolina’s junior U-S senator, Tim Scott, spoke in Charleston at Chanukah in the Square in support of Israel and Jewish people and condemned antisemitic, pro-Hamas demonstrations taking place in the U-S, especially at American colleges and universities.  In part, Scott said, “I would say to every student on college campus fomenting hatred and antisemitism and promoting Jewish genocide and […]

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Clemson musicians create tribute song

Anthony Bernarducci, director of music and vocal studies at Clemson University, debuted “Something Beautiful Remains” with colleagues and students at the fall concert in the Brooks Center.  It was in tribute of a dear friend, Pat Moore, who died in October after a four-year battle with cancer.  Moore was a director of the funeral home Bernarducci worked in alongside her […]

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New boil advisory

THE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PUBLIC WORKS ADVISES THE RESIDENTS LIVING ON US 76 WEST OF RIVERSONG DR, ALL ROADS OFF OF US 76, INCLUDING UNITY CHURCH RD, COBB BRIDGE RD, NORTH UP HWY 76 ALL THE WAY TO THE WELCOME CHURCH COMMUNITY LOCATED IN OCONEE COUNTY, TO VIGOROUSLY BOIL THEIR WATER FOR AT LEAST (1) FULL MINUTE PRIOR TO DRINKING […]

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