Whitmire
Whitmire, SC · Municipal
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Chapin Town Council meeting videos disappear from Facebook. It’s unclear if recordings were kept.
CHAPIN — Unrest continues in the small town of Chapin, with the latest complaints coming from concerned citizens who noticed all previous recordings of town meetings have been removed from their spot on the town’s official Facebook page. Mayor Bill Mitchell confirmed he is the administrator of the account, but denied deleting the recordings. Mitchell said the meetings, which are recorded and stored as Facebook “Lives,” are deleted automatically by the platform after 30 days. However, until this weekend, the entire catalog dating back several months was available for viewing. In an interview wi...
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Irmo voters reject changing town government. Local leaders mostly shrug
Irmo voters took a pass on Tuesday when asked to change their town’s form of government. With all the votes counted, 2,378 town residents rejected a proposal to switch Irmo to a council-manager form of government, 53% of all votes cast. The vote sets back efforts by town leaders to streamline how Irmo operates , but the day after the election, they didn’t expect much to change. “That was just a change of label, so we’ll still operate as if we did have a council-manager form of government,” said Town Administrator Jim Crosland, who under existing ordinances operates as Irmo’s manager in all but name. “The residents won’t see anything change.” Irmo currently operates as a council form of government, vesting ultimate responsibility for running the town in its five-person town council. But in practice, the council has long delegated day-to-day responsibilities to a professional town administrator, who oversees town departments and prepares its budget. When Crosland became Irmo’s town administrator last year, he recommended the change to codify how the town already operates, he previously told The State. But any change in a town’s form of government requires a public vote, and voters who turned up Tuesday to cast
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Honoring our Veterans: PFC Ole S. Danielson
PFC Ole S. Danielson (1924 – 2001), father of Irmo Mayor Bill Danielson, served his country gallantly during World War II. Ole was inducted into the US Army in June 1943 (picture enclosed) after graduating from Rogers High School in Newport RI in June of 1942. He shipped across the Atlantic in January 1944 where he served in General Patton’s Third Army, 80thInfantry, 319th Regiment, E Company. Ole fought through France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany then on to Czechoslovakia and Austria until his return to the states in December 1945.