Living with HIV/AIDS

Tonye Torrence, 50, is is one of the many people in South Carolina who is living with AIDS.



Fenicia Rosario, 51, is one of the many people in South Carolina who is living with HIV.



Brian Erb, who was once a professional bull rider, is one of the many people in South Carolina who is living with AIDS.



Fenicia Rosario, right, reacts as RN Debbie Cantrell places an IV in Fenicia's arm during her infusion treatments at the Anderson Health and Wellness Center.



Tonye Torrence shows the amount of medication he takes on a daily basis.



Tonye Torrence and Fenicia Rosario talk with members of DHEC during a meeting at the Greenville County Public Health Center about how they live with HIV and AIDS.



Fenicia Rosario works on the computer at home as her son sleeps on her bed. Rosario gave up her son for adoption after he was born but recently found him after searching on the internet. He now lives in Piedmont and visits Rosario when he can.



Brian Erb, works on his lawn in the front of his house during late afternoon hours. The medicine he takes for his AIDS is ultra-violet sensitive which forces him to wait until the sun is lower in the sky before he can do yard work.



Tonye Torrence, who has AIDS, often walks to his infusion treatments, and other places around Anderson, when he feels he has the energy. He says the walking keeps him active.

Lots O' Football

Clemson running back C.J. Spiller is consoled by Clemson tight end Michael Palmer after the Tigers lost to Maryland 24-21 on Saturday afternoon in Maryland.



Clemson running back C.J. Spiller runs past Maryland defensive back Anthony Wiseman (6) on a punt return while loosing a shoe during the 3rd quarter of the Tigers game against Maryland on Saturday. Spiller scored a touchdown on the run.



Maryland defensive back Jamari McCollough intercepts a pass intended for Clemson wide receiver Marquan Jones in the end-zone at the end of the second quarter.



Clemson wide receiver Jacoby Ford is horse collared by TCU safety Colin Jones during the 4th quarter at Memorial Stadium in Clemson on Saturday afternoon.



Clemson wide receiver Jacoby Ford misses a catch after being hit by TCU cornerback Rafael Priest No. 10 during the 4th quarter at Memorial Stadium in Clemson on Saturday afternoon. Priest was called for pass interference.



Clemson running back C.J. Spiller jumps over TCU cornerback Rafael Priest during the 2nd quarter of their game at Memorial Stadium in Clemson on Saturday afternoon.





Clemson's Da'Quan Bowers sacks Boston College quarterback Justin Tuggle early in the fourth quarter of their game at Clemson on Saturday afternoon.



Clemson's Rashard Hall intercepts a pass in the first quarter during the Tigers game against Boston College on Saturday afternoon.



Clemson running back CJ Spiller runs past Boston College kicker Ryan Quigley to score a touchdown on a 82 yard punt return in the first quarter.



University of Georgia Brandon Boykin returns a kick off in the first quarter during their game against South Carolina at Sanford Stadium in Georgia on Saturday night.



University of Georgia's A.J. Green catches a pass over University of South Carolina's Chris Culliver and Akeem Auguste during the second quarter of their game at Sanford Stadium in Georgia on Saturday night.



University of South Carolina's Chris Culliver breaks up a pass intended for University of Georgia's A.J. Green in the first quarter of their game at Sanford Stadium in Georgia on Saturday night.



South Carolina's C.C. Whitlock breaks up a pass intended for NC State's Jarvis Williams late in the second quarter.

Misc Sept

Jean Kidd, middle, an instructor for a kids yoga class at Lilia Day Spa, has the girls in her class perform specific stretches.



Clemson University junior Charlie Jenkins stands with a horse after washing it on Monday afternoon at the Clemson University Equine Center. Jenkins and other students were participating in a Horsemanship class that is a part of the Animal and Veterinary Science program where they learn horse riding at handling skills.



Nadine Salazar, daughter of Maritza Hurtado Dickson and sister of Jilian Melisa Salazar who were murdered by Nathan Dickson in April of 2008, addresses Dickson while speaking during at his plea hearing on Monday morning.



Tony Zane jumps over Diamond Walker while roller skating at the Firelake Skateboard Park off Cheddard Road in Anderson County. Zane and Walker are members of the dance group BreakSk8 out of Kokomo, Indiana. The group was featured on the first season of the MTV reality competition show, Randy Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew, in which they placed fourth. The group was performing at a private party in Easley over the weekend. While driving through the area they saw signs for the skate park and decided to stop in.



Runners participating in the Peoples Bank Midnight Flight one mile race take off at the starting line on Friday night.



Tom Martin, who has a prosthetic leg, ran the 5K race of the Midnight Flight on Friday night.



Mary McCarty looks at a map showing the Electric City Transit Gold Route schedule after boarding the bus at the old McCants Middle School on its first day of operation on Tuesday afternoon.

Battle of Oconee

Vince Swiney walks onto the battle field before the start of the Battle of Oconee. The battle reenacts the fight for the Toxaway Valley in Oconee County, SC. Reenacts from all over the southeast participate in the living history event.



Stacey Hughes prepares a meal for soldiers and their families before the start of the Battle of Oconee on Saturday.



Mike Looper eats alone in his tent before the start of the Battle of Oconee on Saturday.



Wendell Decker shows a couple their photograph after taking their picture with an authentic 1800's camera.



Confederate soliders in the South Carolina Second Rifles Robbie Owens, left and Berlin Owen, right, bow their head in prayer before the start of the Battle of Oconee re-enactment on Saturday afternoon.



Confederate soldiers fire a cannon at Union soldiers during the Battle of Oconee re-enactment on Saturday afternoon outside of Westminster.



Union soldiers advance toward Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Ocone



A Union soldier riding a horse fires his pistol at Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Oconee re-enactment on Saturday afternoon outside of Westminster.



Confederate soldiers with the South Carolina Second Rifles fire at Union soldiers during the Battle of Oconee re-enactment on Saturday outside of Westminster.



Union soldiers advance toward Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Oconee.

July and some of August

Tahj Martin, 11, of Anderson plunges down a slide at the Sheppard Swin Center on Tuesday afternoon.



Willie Nelson gives a smile to the audience while performing at the Heritage Park Amphitheater in Simpsonville last Wednesday.



Emergency rescue crews work to pull people trapped in a SUV that fell into a creek from a bridge while driving on I-85 North on Sunday afternoon.



Ryan Robles, 8, stands underneath a water fountain at the Sheppard Swim Center in Anderson on a Saturday afternoon.



Chanse Howard, 17, swings with her sister Patience Synder, 8, on her lap during a rain shower at Darwin Wright Park on Sunday afternoon. The two girls were spending the afternoon with their family at the park.



From left to right, Tim Fitzgerald, Bobby Licchillo, and Reagan Fitzgerald look at an interactive map of the Lake Keowee area at the World of Energy at the Duke Energy nuculear power plant on Tuesday afternoon.



Sherry Martin, Lauree Cole and Stacey Nelms have their photo taken in the locker room showers during a tour of the player's facilities in the West End Zone as a part of the Ladies Clinic at Clemson on Saturday.



Samantha Noble, 7, and her mother Sara Noble touch a plasma globe at the World of Energy at the Duke Energy nuclear plant on Tuesday afternoon.



Doris Hutchens stands in her field of sunflowers at the Berry Thyme Farm in Westminster.



Ken Turk spins a piece of glass after heating it to give the glass a wider shape.



Wrestler Chris Hamrick flips backward onto Donnie Dollar during a Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling event held at McCants Middle School on Saturday night.



Jeanette Bradley, a volunteer at Anderson Interfaith Ministries, fills paper bags with food that will be given to those in need. With the recent economic downturn, AIM has scene a decline in donations and is running low on food.



Ramondeze Rivera talks with his defense lawyer John Delgado during Rivera's hearing at the Anderson County Courthouse on Thursday. Rivera is being tried for murder of and Anderson woman.



Employees for Wharton-Smith Inc. work on the construction of new structures at the Rocky River Waste-water Treatment Plant in Anderson on Thursday.



Carl Sutherland ties a tomato plant to a bamboo chute on Saturday afternoon on his father's farm off of Old Williamston Road in Anderson. There are around 600 tomatos in 50 different varieties on the Sutherland's farm. They also grow cantaloupe, okra, squash, cucumbers, watermelons, beans, peas and more which they sell at the Anderson County Farmers Market and at their home.

June

CATCH (Criminal Apprehension Through Community Help)



Kenneth Groves, left, watches as Anderson County Sheriff's Office deputy Scott Hamby, middle, and Sgt. Mike Binninger, right, seize the possessions of a pull-tab gambling business that was operating on the corner of Booker and Market Street in Anderson.



Anderson County Sheriff's office deputies Joel Frazier and Chris Whitfield search two men in an area with known drug activity in Anderson on Tuesday. The two men did not have any drugs in their possession.



Anderson County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Mike Binninger points out houses near Spencer Street that used to be sites of criminal activity that have been remodeled.



Anderson County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Mike Binninger, middle and deputy Brent Moore talk to Darlene Davis while arresting her for D.U.I and having an open container on Tuesday.



Anderson County Sheriff's Department Deputy Marty Robinson dumps out a forty ounce beer after stopping an intoxicated driver on Tuesday afternoon in Anderson.



A small marijuana plant growing on the back porch of a residence in Anderson gave the Anderson County Sheriff's office reason to search the residence and make an arrest for manufacturing marijuana and simple possession of marijuana.



Anderson County Sheriff's office deputy Brent Moore takes Carl Tabacaru into custody after he was arrested for manufacturing marijuana and simple possession of marijuana on Tuesday afternoon.



MOM COACH



Susan Sanders, middle, coach of an under-16 baseball team, gathers players before the start of a game at Bomber Field.



Coach Susan Sanders looks back after calling a meeting an the pitcher's mound.



Coach Susan Sanders helps her player Jared Watkins put on his catchers equipment before taking the field.



Coach Susan Sanders watches her team, The Braves, from the dugout during a game at Bomber Field.



Rylie Simpson, 4, swims to the surface after jumping off the diving board during swimming lessons at the Sheppard Swim Center on Wednesday.



Palmetto High School seniors walk to the tunnel of Littlejohn Coliseum before the start of the school's graduation on Thursday afternoon.



From left to right, Orlando Trujillo, Ivan Reyes-Mendez and Pedro Trujillo dive into Lake Hartwell off of a dock at Hart State Park in Hartwell on Wednesday afternoon. Georgia and South Carolina lifted its drought restrictions on Wednesday.



Chris Evett, 19, washes the windshield of Tim Borsum's Jetta during a free car wash held at several locations in Anderson by the members of the Wayfarer Camp.



U.S Marines Phil Masker, left, and Justin Kopta, right, ride on inner tubes in Lake Keowee on Wednesday afternoon as a part of recovery for a group of Marines.



T.L. Hanna' s Casey Craft is the All-area soccer player of the year.



Pendleton's Jasmin Stowers is the All-area track athlete of the year.



South Carolina State Troopers Chuck Coggins, left, and Frank Wooten stand next to a stop sign that was knocked over in a fatal accident on the corner of SC 20 and Early Shirley Road on Sunday afternoon.



Gloria Flemming looks down River Street as emergency crews arrive to respond the tree that fell from her front yard onto River Street during a strong thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon.



Homeland Park firefighter Cornelius Pickens picks up a piece of a tree that fell into River Street during a strong thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon.

May

Saxophonist for the Black Tie Affair performs a solo while playing Downtown Sounds in Anderson.



Reverend Julius Scipio plants a garden in his back yard each spring and shares the harvest with the community.



Zach Jordan, right, and Abram Barton pose for a photo in the gymnasium before the start of the Franklin High School graduation on Friday evening.



Boy Scouts from different troops across the upstate watch as Chris Verrilli of Troop 260 in Greer launches rockets made from two liters that the Boy Scouts constructed on Saturday during the Blue Ridge Council 2009 Exporee that was held over the weekend at the Civic Center in Anderson.



Carol Hall, right, and Jo Ann Tripp, look up to watch the Team RV planes fly by during the Snowbirds Over Anderson II Air Show on Wednesday afternoon.



Spectators watch from the curb of S.C. 24 as the Snowbirds jets take off from the Anderson Regional Airport during the Snowbirds Over Anderson II Airshow on Wednesday.



Brian Tipton, an employee of J.A.T. Incorporated who does contract work for the state, sweeps of Greenville Street near the intersection of Main Street after repainting the direction arrows. The crew spent Sunday repainting the direction arrows and lane markers from College Street down to SC 28.



Dancers from the Foothills Conservatory in Seneca perform outside of the new patient tower at the Oconee Medical Center during a Patient Tower and Preview and Family Festival on Saturday.



Hannah Hanrion gives Shaun Morrison a kiss on the cheek before the start of the Anderson University commencement ceremony on Saturday morning.



Margaret Franks places her hand on the mausoleum where her husband Ronald. L. Franks, who served in the U.S. Army and fought in Vietnam, is buried at the M.J. "Dolly" Cooper Veterans Cemetery after the Memorial Day Services that were held at the cemetery.



Carolyn Holbrooks, of Pendleton, places a poppy in honor of her late husband Thomas J. Holbrooks, who served in the Navy during World War II in Okinawa, at the Memorial Day services in downtown Pendleton



Dan Hogan, a veteran of the U.S. Navy who served in the Pacific during World War II, stands at salute during the playing of the national anthem at the Memorial Day celebration at the Richard M. Campbell Veterans Nursing Home.



Leland Halleck, who served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, places a flag on the grave of David Sadler at the Roberts Presbyterian Church cemetery during a Veterans remembrance and recognition service on Sunday. Roberts Presbyterian, which was organized in 1789, has many veterans buried in its cemetery.




Harold Waters, a veteran of the U.S Army who served in Korea, takes a picture of the grave of his son, Michael Waters who served in the U.S. Air Force after placing flowers at the head stone during Memorial Day services at the M.J. "Dolly" Cooper Veterans Cemetery.



Merrill Nixon, a member of the Richard Campbell American Legion Post 184 and a veteran of the Navy, closes his eyes while playing Taps during the Memorial Day services at the M.J. "Dolly" Cooper Veterans Cemetery.



Larry Gilreath is a veteran of the Vietnam War and fought in the battle of the Ia Drang valley in November of 1965. The battle was the basis for the book and movie "We Were Soldiers".



A timber rattle snake sits in its cage at Oconee Reptiles in Walhalla. Timber rattle snakes and copperheads are the only two venomous snake found in the Anderson area.



A pigmy rattlesnake sits its cage in Oconee Reptiles in Walhalla. Pigmy rattlesnakes can be found in areas just south of Anderson.




Jim Farmer pulls a copperhead snake from its cage at Oconee Reptiles in Walhalla where Farmer keeps several types of snakes and other reptiles. Copperheads and timber rattle snakes are the only venomous snakes found in the Upstate area.



Jim Farmer of Oconee Reptiles holds a black rat snake. Black rat snakes are not poisonous and not aggressive. According to Farmer, they can be useful for rat and mice problems.



A copperhead snake sits in the grass outside of Oconee Reptiles in Walhalla. Timber rattle snakes and copperheads are the only two venomous snake indigenous to the Anderson area.



Sara Knight, 92, smiles while talking to Westside High School Beta Club members during a Hawaiian themed prom at the NHC Health Care center on Friday afternoon.



Betty Collier, 76, dances with husband Kirby Collier, 77, at the NHC Health Care center in Anderson during a prom for the residents that organized by the Westside High School Beta club members on Friday afternoon. The Colliers have been married for 55 years.



Juanita Williamson, 78, stands up out of her wheelchair to dance with Westside High School sophomore and Beta Club member Victoria Johnson at the NHC Health Care center in Anderson during a prom held for the residents of the center on Friday afternoon.



B-HP's Jon Terbeek celebrates with Parker Frost after Frost was batted in making the score 3-2 in the fourth inning during their game against Camden High School on Friday night.



B-HP's Jacbo Tavernier makes a diving catch in the first inning of their game against Riverside at B-HP.




Kylie Allen, right, of T.L. Hanna High School and Morgan Cutts of Clover High School compete for a loose ball during the first half of their playoff game at Hanna on Wednesday.



Clemson's Jason Stolz slides safely into second base past University of Maryland's Alfredo Rodriquez in the fourth inning of the second game of their double header on Sunday.

Crazy Weather

Lighting streaks past the historic Anderson County Courthouse on Friday night as a line of severe storms passed through the upstate.



Storm clouds pass Oakwood Baptist Church in Anderson.



Bo Taylor walks his bike around a large puddle that blocked the sidewalk on South Main Street on Monday after more rain fell in the Anderson area.




Monica Clinkscales runs across Main Street in Anderson during a rain shower on Monday as her umbrella collapses from the wind.



A fallen tree blocked Whitehall Road near Pope Road on Friday night after a severe storm passed through the city.



Kayla DiChiro walks dogs "Frankie" and "Dayce" across a dyke on Hartwell Lake in Clemson on Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures on Tuesday reached lows in the 30's. More seasonal temperature are to return today with high's in the lower 70's which will continue through the weekend.

Anderson TEA Party

From left to right, Sharon DeFino, Donna E. Fillingham and Bernard Dearborn hold up signs while protesting with a few hundred others that attended the Anderson tea party that was held on Thursday afternoon at 1203 North Main Street.



Siblings Olivia Speed and Jared Speed hold signs as a speaker addresses the crowd at the Anderson TEA Party.



Oscar and Dee Okes watch as a speaker addresses the crowd at the Anderson TEA Party.



Larry Lawrimore placed tea bags on his hat at the Anderson TEA party.



Several protesters lined North Main Street with signs during the Anderson tea party on Thursday afternoon.



Sue Strickland holds up a sign and cheers at the Anderson TEA Party.



Paul Mitchell holds a "Don't Tread On Me" flag during the Anderson TEA Party.

Some April Stuff

Fire and rescue crews responded to a vehicle fire on U.S. 29 North on Tuesday night.



John Hill, 12, wipes his nose as medical assistant Katherine Barnes prepares Hill's back for an allergy test at the Allergy Partners of Anderson.



Kim McCrea and Randy Spearman perform a swing dance during the 3rd annual Dancing for Our Heros competition at the Civic Center on Friday night. The partners dancing in the competition performed the tango and a swing dance that was judged by a panel that included mayor Terrance Roberts and Pendleton mayor Carol Burdette. The event benefited the Cancer of Association of Anderson, 263rd Family Readiness Group and the PolioPlus program of Rotary International.



Tyler Smith and Melissa Morella watch as water flows from the Broadway Lake flood gate into to Broadway Creek on Tuesday morning.




"Winston", an English bulldog, rides down Main Street on Wednesday in Anderson. "Winston" is the mascot for The Fox, an English style pub and restaurant, which is set to open in late spring.



Johnny House, guitar player for The Nightcrawlers Band, takes a guitar solo while playing through the arms of Shay Newell of Anderson during Downtown Sounds on Thursday night.




A group of Clemson University students walk past nearly 10,000 flags in a shape of a ribbon that were placed on Bowman Field at Clemson University as part of the university's diversity week event called "One World Project".
The flags represent hate crimes in the U.S. from 2007 F.B.I.




Wren High School's Miranda Wilson is congratulated by teammates after hitting a home run in the third inning during their game against Westside on Friday afternoon.



Erick Lowe moves a japanese maple into a greenhouse at the Whitten Nursery and Garden Center to protect the tree from the low temperatures.




John Fredrickson of T.L. Hanna High School contemplates his next move while playing Rick Ferreira of T.L. Hanna High School (not shown) during a chess tournament at Westside High School on Friday.



Dick Johnson, right, helps guide his Catalina 30 sailboat as a crane lowers the boat into Lake Hartwell at the marina of the Western Carolina Sailing Club on Thursday morning. Lake levels have risen high enough for the boats to be docked at the marina.



Andrea Ingleton, paints a door on the outside of The Fox on Main Street in Anderson. The English style pub and restaurant is set to open in the late spring.

Spring Time

Clemson University students Kelly Arps and Brett Rhyne run through the mud in a field on campus while playing ultimate flying disc with other students on a rainy Friday afternoon.



Clemson University student Megan Kelly walks through campus in the rain on Friday afternoon. Heavy rains continued through Friday and are expected to continue through the weekend.



Kevin Hinson, 24, an entemology graduate student at Clemson University, uses a net to catch insects in a field at the South Carolina Botanical Gardens on Monday afternoon. Hinson has to catch 105 families of insects and 150 different species for his graduate class.







Norm Moyer, a resident of Canada, takes pictures of japanese camelias while visting the South Carolina Botanical Gardens on Monday













Clemson University students Melanie Francis, 18, and Matt Siebert, 19, lay in the grass as Francis studies for a Chemistry test on Tuesday afternoon. Clemson students are back in class this week after having last week off for spring break.

News

Kemia Geer, step daughter of a man who was shot and killed, sits with Vanessa Watt, 27, cousin of the same man, while comforting each other on a neighbors porch on Friday afternoon.



A large crowd gathered and watched as law enforcement surveyed the scene where a man was shot and killed.



Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore interviews people on the porch of the house where a man was shot and killed on Friday afternoon.



Anderson County Deputy Corner marks evidence on the street where a man was shot and killed on Friday afternoon.



Matthew Merriweather Sr., right, father of Terrell Merriweather who was shot and killed on Friday hugs with brother Billy Merriweather outside of the scene where the shooting took place.



Police tape blocked off Dickens Ave where a man was shot and killed on Friday afternoon.



Joseph Hudgins is lead out by of the Anderson County General Sessions Courtroom after Judge Cordell Maddox ruled Hudgins does not have a right to a post-conviction relief hearing. Hudgins was convicted of murder at the age of 17 in 1993 for the shooting of Anderson County deputy Chris Taylor.



Emergency crews responded to a fatal wreck on 436 La France Road in La France on Friday afternoon. Two teenage boys were involved in the accident. One died on scene and the other was taken from the site.



Robert Burns holds up a sign while picketing outside of the historic county courthouse on Tuesday afternoon. A group of construction workers met outside of the courthouse to voice their opinion on the use of illegal workers.

Fun

Jessi Kinley, 7, hangs from playground equipment at Linley Park in Anderson on Tuesday afternoon.



Marge Davis, left, puts on make up in the dressing room of the Rainey Fine Arts Center at Anderson University with other members of the Senior Follies before the start of their performance on Friday night. This is the 20th anniversary of the Senior Follies.




Preston Brookshire, a kindergardener at Palmetto Elementary School, struggles to open a heart shaped napkin while eating a cupcake and other snacks during a Valentines Day party on Friday. The children in Ashley Pruitt's kindergarden class made cards for classmates, drew pictures for their parents and had other Valentines Day activities in celebration of the holiday.



Jim Striech, 66, shoots pool at Simon's Bar and Grill in Anderson. Striech is fighting cancer and plays pool twice a week in his effort to beat cancer.



Clemson University senior Patrick Shaw takes advantage of sunny skies and gusts of wind from the top of a hill near the South Botanical Gardens to practice kite boarding. "When your out on the ocean its way more fun", said Shaw. Only a few days after receiving inches on snow, temperatures in the upstate will reach the 60's and lower 70's going into the weekend.

Recent Sports

Clemson forward Trevor Booker goes up for a lay up against Florida State's Chris Singleton, middle, and Solomon Alabi, right, in the first half of their game at Clemson on Saturday night at Littlejohn Coliseum.



The Clemson University basketball team lost to Virginia Tech 80-77 on Wednesday night



The Clemson University baseball team hosted Michigan State University on Tuesday afternoon. Clemson won 15-2.



Clemson pitcher Justin Sarratt throws a pitch in the fourth inning during the Tigers game against UNC-Asheville on Wednesday afternoon.



Pendleton's Sterlin Blakey, left, and Ashely Adger hug after beating Strom Thurman High School in a double over-time game at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville on Saturday. Pendleton won the IIA Upper State Basketball Championship to advance to the state finals.

Start of 2009

Anderson University students Steve Harring, left, James Brotemarkle, middle front, Andrew Higgins, middle back, and Wesley Johnson, right, jump to catch a disc on Monday afternoon at the recreation field in the back of the university. A large group of students met at the field to play ultimate disc to take advantage of the unseasonable temperatures. Highs on Monday reached the lower 70's.



Anderson resident McNeil Grier turned 104 last week.



A referee checks the spacing between the mat and the should of T.L. Hanna High School's Mustafa Niazi as Cameron McCarley of Westside High School pins Niazi in their wrestling match at T.L. Hanna on Monday night.



Bryan Casey, right, helps his son Britton Casey, 5, cast his fishing rod into the pond at Chris Taylor Memorial Park on Monday afternoon. Mr. Casey, who is from Abbeville, was running errands in Anderson on his day off work. Despite the cloudy and cool weather he decided to stop and fish with his son while they had some down time.



The Anderson University Ensemble raises their hands in the air at the end of performing the song "We Shall Overcome" during a worship session at the Rainey Fine Arts Center in honor of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



Fannie Vickery, left, who turned 101 years old on Monday, smiles as she gets a visit from friend Marian Gerrard, right, neighbor Dorthy Ardister, middle left, and employees of the Willow Creek Living Center. Mrs. Gerrard brought Vickery a pineapple pound cake to help celebrate her 101st birthday. Vickery is at the Willow Creek Living Center for short term rehabilitation and has plans to go back to her home in Anderson. She lived next to the Pleasnat View Baptist church in Anderson for several years and watched after many of the ministers children giving her the nickname, "Nanny".



Glenn Rodway looks underneath a sink to repair its plumbing in the bathroom of 228 Foster street. The bathroom and other areas of the house are being repaired and upgraded as part of a block grant the city received through the Appalachian Council of Governments.






Pendleton High School's C.J. Gleaton plays three sports for the Bulldogs; football, baseball and basketball. He is an all-region player in all three sports.

Recent Spot News

Ronald Harris and his dog "Libby" were helped out of Harris' 18 wheeler through the windshield by members of the Broadway Fire Department on Tuesday morning. Harris' truck flipped on its side after making a turn on to Snow Road in Anderson. Both Harris and his dog did not suffer any major injuries.







Jason Davis, left, of the Flat Rock Fire Department sprays down Emory Craft of the Starr Fire Department to remove soot from his suit. Both Flat Rock and Starr Fire Departments responded to a house fire at 1010 Lakemont Road in Anderson County around 4:15 on Monday afternoon. The house is considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.



Chase Sanders of the Rock Springs Fire Department walks by the remnants of an abandoned home that caught fire on Sunday afternoon. Rock Springs and Ebenezer Fire Departments responded the fire off Shirley Drive near Broadway Lake shortly after 1 p.m. The cause of the fire is still unknown.

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