The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Savannah District announced Wednesday it is imposing long-term restrictions on how high Hartwell Lake may rise because of a structural concern at the Clemson Lower Diversion Dam Saddle Dike, an earthen barrier associated with the lake’s flood-control system. The Corps maintains there is no immediate danger to the public, but its most recent Dam Safety Program evaluation found that the dike’s condition does not meet the agency’s acceptable risk standards.

“Our goal is to make sure no one forgets,” said Anderson County Councilman Greg Elgin, who also serves as chief of the Rock Springs Fire Department. “We want them to remember. We especially want to make sure the younger generation remembers.”

The city has characterized the project as an improvement to the existing street and Heritage Plaza rather than an expansion of the park. What people walking downtown will notice is the removal of a lingering in-between space — part roadway, part event venue, part unfinished edge — and its replacement with a permanent gathering place.

Its next free virtual training class begins Sept. 15, and applications are due Sept. 1. The program is seeking adults from the Upstate and across South Carolina to serve as Guardians ad Litem — court-appointed advocates for children navigating Family Court after allegations of abuse or neglect.

In Anderson County, Norman received 11,362 votes, or 57.27 percent of the vote to Graham’s 8,479 42.73 percent. Turnout in the county was just over 16 percent.

That water still rises in the town’s Mineral Springs Park, beneath a gazebo in the shade of large trees. People still come down for a drink as children pass through the park. At Christmas, visitors drive or walk among it to visit the holiday lights and decorations. The spring is so familiar that it is more than a relic at the center of an old municipal landscape. It’s the reason the town exists at all.

The consultant, who has built fire stations across the Upstate as well as in Georgia and Utah, is tasked with creating a scope for a final budget with maximum price guarantees for the new station which will serve the growing population of the area.

At its heart, the new ordinance is an attempt to turn a growing city’s ambitions into enforceable rules. Across 279 pages, it combines zoning, subdivision, land-use, parking, signs, landscaping, tree preservation, historic preservation and approval procedures into one code, a single operating manual for how the Electric City may grow. The draft, prepared by Houseal Lavigne and dated July 10, 2026, would be effective immediately if approved by council.

The Spring Water Festival may be Williamston’s signature gathering, but the park’s calendar does not linger in one season for long. Halloween’s Boo in the Park is next, followed by the town’s Christmas celebrations, which Burgess said grow “bigger, bigger, bigger” each year.

Hope Missions of the Upstate, located near downtown Anderson, noticed a disturbing trend in recent months as an unusually sharp increase in eviction-related pleas for help during the final week of July, including messages from families facing imminent displacement, creating a challenge that has no easy immediate solution.

The club began its 46th at the Anderson Institute of Technology with head coaches from the county’s football teams on hand to talk about changes from last season and expectations on the season ahead.

Pendleton 21, Palmetto 11

Emerald 21, Crescent 6

Powdersville 28, Walhalla 12

Daniel 42, Wren 28

T.L. Hanna 17, BHP 14

Westside 39, Ashley Ridge 14

William Kenley, AnMed’s chief executive, described the July 26 cybersecurity incident as an attack carried out by people motivated by financial gain and indifferent to the institution’s role in the community.

“Make no mistake,” he said. “It was an attack on all of us.”

On the first day of early voting, 1,188 cast votes in the U.S. Senate Special Republican Primary Runoff between Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Darline Graham. Early voting runs through Friday. The winner will face Democrat Annie Andrews in the November election.

The official version of the town’s history is preserved in incorporation papers dated Dec. 24, 1913, displayed at the West Pelzer Municipal Center. The unofficial version centers on John Franks, a surveyor who mapped not only Pelzer’s mills but other textile properties stretching from Greenville through Belton and Honea Path. Franks, according to town lore, grew tired of the restrictions imposed by the mill village, crossed the railroad tracks, and founded a new municipality called Frankville.

A rarer split decision emerged during the second reading of an amendment to downsize the Planning Commission from nine members to seven. Passing by a narrow 4-3 margin, the measure would eliminate two at-large seats to leave only the seven council-nominated positions; it will require one final reading for formal adoption. The move would return the commission to the pre-pandemic seven members, one from each council district.

The $2.8 million included in the spending package that went into effect Monday is expected to cover the cost of breakfasts this school year for all students who don’t already qualify under another program, regardless of their parents’ income, according to the Department of Education.

The area, currently unzoned, so under county rules that land may generally be available for residential, commercial, or industrial development without the district-specific restrictions that zoning would impose.

Beginning Aug. 28, the center will present “Amerikan Dream,” the second installation in a three-part exhibition series by Upstate artists Shay Abramo and Nat Morris. The show follows last year’s “Amerikan Gothic,” which drew substantial crowds to the Arts Center and persuaded the artists and staff that one exhibition might become a larger conversation. A third installment is planned for the same time next year.

Early voting for the U.S. Senate Special Republican Primary Runoff between Rep. Ralph Norman and Sen. Darline Graham begins Wednesday and runs through Aug. 21. The winner will face Democrat Annie Andrews in the November election.