ANDERSON COUNTY — Candidates for the South Carolina Senate District 3 seat plan to debate Thursday at the Anderson County Library and to attend an event at Tri-County Technical College later this month.

The event Thursday is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in the library at 300 N. McDuffie St., Anderson, rooms B and C.

Democrat Dr. Marshall Meadors is challenging District 3 incumbent Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, in the Nov. 4 general election.

The debate is sponsored by the Anderson County Taxpayers Association, an organization that is incorporated with the South Carolina Secretary of State.

The Tri-County Tech event is scheduled to happen from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 29. The session, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Marshall Parker Auditorium on the Pendleton campus of the school on U.S. 76.

The school’s Arts and Sciences Enrichment Series Committee is sponsoring the event.

This session is to include Bryant, Meadors and Bob Peter, a political science instructor at Tri-County Tech. An interactive question and answer session will be part of the event.

The session will introduce the audience to state-level politics by explaining what the job of a South Carolina state senator is. Those who attend can learn more about the candidates, what they stand for, and what they plan to do if elected to office.

For more information about the debate, call Ed Jean at (864) 225-4466 or (864) 940-0513 (cell).

For more information about the Tri-County Tech, call Jennifer Beattie at (864) 646-1333.