The state that gained the most jobs was South Carolina, up 2.3% or 55,200 jobs, followed by Louisiana (up 1.8% or 36,000), and Nevada (up or 1.6% or 25,300).

South Carolina’s job growth was concentrated in construction, health care, and leisure and hospitality, said William Floyd, the state’s employment and workforce executive director, in a statement.

Anderson County Council on Tuesday gave unanimous initial approval on second reading to a resolution forbidding county use of Flock Surveillance Cameras by the county.

In the first two days, Anderson's totals for the day 5,118 voted at one of the county’s four early voting sites.

On Tuesday, 2,571 voted with the following breakdown.

Nothing quite rings in the holiday season like the Salvation Army’s bell. Among the many sounds competing for attention during the holidays, Capt. David Donegan is hoping Anderson will make room for this sound and for the person willing to stand beside it.

Anderson County early voting locations are:

Anderson County Voter Registration and Elections Office, 301 N. Main St., Anderson.

Powdersville Library, 4 Civic Court, Powdersville.

Pendleton Branch Library, 650 S. Mechanic St., Pendleton.

Watkins Community Center, 204 S. Main St., Honea Path.

Crescent 58, Liberty 17

Wren 42, Palmetto 21

Pendleton 50, West Oak 17

Westside 56, Fountain Inn 42

T.L. Hanna 38, Greenwood 0

BHP 21, Powdersville 19

It is the season of the witch in Belton, as the city gets ready for the annual ghost walk set to begin Thursday at 6 p.m. The first departure from Belton’s old train depot will be followed every 15 minutes until 8:15 p.m. There is no train leaving the station for this event, although passengers will be invited to consider the possibility that not everyone associated with their destinations has entirely departed.

As of Friday, more than 430 people scheduled to work Anderson County’s polls for the Nov. 3 election, but more are still needed for rural areas.

The justices heard arguments Oct. 14 in Tonya Winbush’s challenge to the invalidation of her apparent victory in the April 7 election. The court will now deliberate before issuing a ruling, a process that could take weeks or months, according to Winbush’s attorney, Christopher P. Kenney. Until then, Anderson City Council remains one member short. City officials have said the district is being temporarily represented by Anderson’s two at-large council members.

It’s official: President Donald Trump is returning to South Carolina next week to rally support for Sen. Darline Graham and other Republicans ahead of the midterms. The rally will be Wednesday in Clemson. The scheduled start time is 7 p.m., the Republican National Committee announced Thursday evening. The announcement did not say where in Clemson.

One of the callings of any museum is to be the caretaker of old things. And this time of year, when thoughts drift to the antiquities, they often end up in tales of the supernatural.

Early voting for the Nov. 3 general election begins Monday at four locations in Anderson County. Voters can cast ballots through Oct. 31. Early voting centers will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.

With a jolly ho-ho-ho, West Pelzer christened a new, official home for Santa Claus on Tuesday. The new building, Gaines Hall in Chapman Park, was named in honor of Johnny Gaines who served as West Pelzer mayor for 24 years.

Construction is under way on the two-story AnMed Education and Innovation Center at 610 North St., near East Greenville Street. The facility will provide clinical classrooms, collaborative workspaces and administrative space to support the college’s Associate Degree in Nursing program.

“200 Years in Anderson County,” a new volume commemorating the county’s bicentennial, extends beyond 600 pages and could easily have been twice as long. Its 20 chapters move from Cherokee history to the county’s future, making room along the way for textile communities, railroads, churches, schools, businesses, hospitals and the people who built lives around them.

The debate featured an all-female stage, a first for a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina, on the three-month anniversary of the shocking death of Lindsey Graham, which reset the race.

Anderson City Council will give final vote on a proposal to annex and rezone 31.5 acres at 216 Vandiver Road as part of tonight’s meeting at 6 p.m. in council chambers downtown.

The developing petitioning for the annexation plans to construct a 62-lot single-family residential subdivision on the property which borders Vandiver Road and is just behind T.L. Hanna High School.

Moving a festival indoors is not quite the same as moving a meeting indoors. The vendors still needed space. The performers needed somewhere to perform. Children’s activities, art demonstrations and visitors all had to fit into an arrangement that made sense.

The “Conversations on a Bench” event was part of a national effort to bring homelessness into public discussion, the questions were local: Where can someone sleep tonight? What keeps a family from finding housing?

An intersection can be cleared of roadside advertisements and, a few weeks later, look as though no one has touched it. For Matthew Stipe, the director of Anderson County Environmental and Code Enforcement, this is part of the cycle his office must deal with on a daily basis.