Oak Grove News

Rick Perry at the Lizard Thicket restaurant in Oak Grove, South Carolina: "New Hampshire winnows the field, but South Carolina is where they pick presidents." Each poll that has been released in 2012 has Perry at 5 percent.

Carolina Water Service may go to court again seeking a rate hike that was denied last week by state officials.

State Sen. Jake Knotts holds a book of complaints while testifying at the Public Service Commission public hearing on a rate hike request for Carolina Water Service to raise water rates 80% and sewer rates 14% at the County Tennis Center on Oak Drive last week.

An early morning fire in the Oak Grove Community of Lexington County damaged a home and sent one firefighter to an area hospital.

An early morning fire in the Oak Grove community caused $60,000 in damage to a home.