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County Council recognizes Miss SC, Miss Teen SC

July 16, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Two young women with strong ties to the Powdersville area were honored by the Anderson County council Tuesday night.

Lanie Hudson was chosen as Miss South Carolina on June 28th. She is a cum laude Clemson University graduate a member of both the President’s and Dean’s Lists, and a member of the Blue Key scholastic society.

She is also a two time national clogging champion and a long time advocate for organ donation. She began a project to encourage organ donation in 2007 and currently serves as a spokesperson for DonateLifeSC. The County Council approved a resolution recognizing her achievements.

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County settles on lawsuits

June 25, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

The Anderson County Council concluded their budget preparations in a special called meeting Tuesday night and will reportedly finalize that budget with third reading approval at another special called meeting scheduled for Thursday, June 26. Following more than two hours of haggling and pencil sharpening, the council went into executive session to receive legal advice on two lawsuits that have been pending for almost five years now.

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Wilson says county spending improves over previous years

June 18, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

It’s rare to find a town or county council whose agenda doesn’t include a reading of their budget at this time of the year, but the Anderson County Council plans to have at least one more budget workshop before bringing the county’s budget to the floor for a final vote.

As a result, the Council moved smoothly through an agenda which saw third reading approval given to the ordinances needed to approve the financial incentives given to E & I Engineering, which plans to create at least 250 jobs in the coming years. The company, which is occupying an existing building near Exit 21 on Interstate 85, is expected to have a total economic impact of $400 million over the next twenty years.

District Seven Councilwoman Cindy Wilson made a presentation on several aspects of the pending budget, and on the county’s financial status in general.

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Anderson County budget gets second reading

June 04, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Anderson County Council agreed to provide the Anderson Interfaith Ministries with $10,000 to be used hopefully to leverage many thousands more in grants.

AIM’s proposal centered around the difference in the cost of demolishing substandard housing and the cost of repairing such housing; or better still using the money as matching funds for grants that could be many times that amount.

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Duke, housing and budget top agenda for County Council

May 22, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Anderson County Council made Duke Energy incentives official, heard a presentation on housing issues and discussed the budget during their meeting Tuesday.

Council put the final, and highly anticipated, stamp of approval on the incentive package used to entice Duke Energy to upgrade the Lee Steam Plant. The project to convert the plant to a natural gas fired facility will create as many as 500 construction jobs and bring a capital investment of between six hundred and seven hundred million dollars. A formal announcement of the project was made last week, but the final reading of the incentive ordinance took place last night.

Representatives of the Anderson Interfaith Ministries (AIM) gave a presentation on that group’s efforts to address some of the housing issues in the county, and to seek ten thousand dollars from the County to support those efforts.

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Project “Mystery Green” will have impact on area

May 14, 2014   The Journal

Duke Energy

By Stan Welch

A gathering of civic, political and business leaders will appear at ten o’clock Friday morning at the Anderson Civic Center for the official announcement of the economic development project currently called Project Mystery Green.

The project is generally acknowledged to be a massive upgrade of the Lee Steam Plant, and it is designed in part to address environmental concerns about the plant; as well as to significantly increase the generation of power through the newer technology.

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County approves fee in lieu for “Project Mystery Green”

April 16, 2014   The Journal

Duke Energy/Lee Steam

By Stan Welch

Tuesday night, Anderson County Council, led by District Seven Councilwoman Cindy Wilson, revisited a number of comments and remarks made by District Two Councilwoman Gracie Floyd at a recent meeting.

Wilson began her presentation by replaying a portion of the audio recording of the earlier meeting during which Floyd went into a long rant about how certain members of the Council overstep their authority. Her remarks also centered on when the Council was going to hire a full time administrator, instead of continuing to employ Rusty Burns as its ‘interim’ administrator.

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County approves incentives encouraging company investment of $19 million

April 02, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

The Anderson County Council continued its recent remarkable string of economic developments, by giving third reading approval of various incentives to the Carbon Resources Recovery SC LLC Tuesday night.

The company, which manufactures recycled tire materials, will invest $19 million and create approximately 30 jobs over the next two years. Anderson County Economic Development director Burriss Nelson said that the company will pay better than $18 an hour in wages, with an annual payroll of $1 million.

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Magruder recongized for help in finding missing man

April 02, 2014   The Journal

By County Council

By Stan Welch

A ten year old boy from north Anderson County was recognized for his efforts in locating an elderly neighbor who became disoriented and lost while on his daily walk one day last month.

The Anderson County Council presented Tallin Magruder and his family with a resolution, recognizing his efforts in finding Mr. Barry Thrasher, seventy-two, who suffers dementia and became lost in a wooded area near his home in the Powdersville/Easley area.

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Crowder offers thoughts for County

March 21, 2014   The Journal

By Stan Welch

Tuesday night, Anderson County Councilman Francis Crowder, feeling somewhat liberated by his decision not to seek reelection this year, offered his thoughts on the strategic vision the county should be following.

Crowder, finishing up his second term, began his presentation by citing the House of Representatives’ recent passage of yet another budget that cuts the aid to subdivisions, or the percentage of tax revenues returned by the state to the various counties. “It appears that the State legislature is shorting the counties by about seventy million more than the deal they had made,” said Crowder.

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