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​The Town of Hilton Head Island received an Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies for the town’s Matthews Drive-Marshland Road roundabout project.

The South Carolina Arts Commission awarded the City of Greenville with one of its Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts, the highest honor the state presents in the arts.

Members of the SC Utility Billing Association recently elected their 2016-17 board of directors. President Patsy Hart, Seneca Light & Water; Vice President Amy Ashley, Greenwood Commissioners of Public Works; Secretary/Treasurer Keith Wood, Laurens Commission of Public Works; Member at Large Vikki Woods, Town of Estill; Member at Large Tonya Huell, City of Lake City and Member at Large Leigh Starnes, City of Lancaster.

Charleston, Greenville and Columbia made U.S. News and World Report’s latest list of the best places to live in the United States.

Thirty-five South Carolina municipalities received the Government Finance Officers Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program for fiscal years ended in 2014. Also the Association’s South Carolina Other Retirement Benefit Employer Trust received the Certificate of Achievement.

The SC Press Association recognized the Municipal Association with awards for its history book and new website.