South Carolina becoming a “battery belt”

Seneca’s Bill Sandifer, chairman of the state’s Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee, hails the announcements this month that electric vehicle and battery manufacturers are setting up in South Carolina.  Redwood Materials is committing $3.5 billion in the Low Country; Envision AESC, a Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, announced a battery cell giga-factory in Florence County, to create more than […]

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Fatal Christmas Eve fire

Support has been pouring in for an elderly couple and their two grandchildren made homeless Christmas Eve when fire destroyed their home in the Gumlog community of Franklin County, Georgia. The blaze broke out Saturday morning at the home of David and Kaye Gearin on Buttercup Lane in the Gumlog Community. According to Clayton Bryant, the Franklin County Coroner on […]

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Continued power use conservation requested

Duke Energy asked customers to conserve energy usage as crews restored power following rotating outages in the Carolinas in response to high-energy demand Saturday morning. Due to extreme cold weather causing increased demand and a shortage of available power in the Southeast region, the company was forced to interrupt service to about 500,000 customers to maintain the energy grid and […]

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