Golden Corner park a “white elephant”

Oconee County should be glad to unload the Golden Corner Commerce Park to an investor looking to build a solar farm, District 2 County Councilmember Wayne McCall said Tuesday. McCall claims it was a mistake for the county ever to buy the approximately 300-acre park off S.C. 59 near Fair Play because, he says, the park has been a “white […]

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Davis again to chair the county council

Julian Davis will be chairman of the Oconee County Council for the second year in a row, but his tenure wasn’t uncontested. In the reorganization traditional to the first council meeting of a new year, District 5 Councilmember Glenn Hart nominated District 1 Councilmember John Elliot to the post ahead of a nomination of Davis by District 3 Councilmember Paul […]

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Traffic checkpoints were common over New Year’s

As the calendar turned last week to the year 2020, Oconee County sheriff’s officers and state constables conducted safety traffic checkpoints in which citations were issued and, in some cases, the drivers were removed from behind the wheel and sent to jail. Two of the checkpoints occurred in the Westminster area, with one taking place at Mountain Road at Clearmont […]

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Career Center faculty tours future home

Teachers at the Hamilton Career Center in Bountyland have taken a look at their future home–the new Fred Hamilton Career and Technology Center on highway 11.  They took a “hard hat” tour yesterday, in small groups, and saw the classrooms where they’ll start to teach next year.  Although the construction has a ways to go, the schedule remains for opening […]

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Warrants allege woman attacked four deputies

A weekend incident on the rural Peaceful Lane in Oconee County is alleged to have been anything except peaceful. A Peaceful Lane resident in the Tokeena-Crossroads community was arrested by Oconee sheriff’s officers. Arrest records show Rebecca Denise Heaton is charged with public disorderly conduct, assault on police officer while resisting arrest, and spitting in the face of two deputies […]

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November 2021 piped sewer on I-85?

Design and engineering are underway on a new phase of Oconee County Sewer South—the one to bring piped sewer to I-85 in the hopes for economic development on Oconee’s four-mile stretch of the federal highway. The Joint Regional Sewer Authority is working with the Davis Floyd company, and the JRSA’s Chris Eleazer projects the possibility to extend sewer from the […]

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Biggest challenge facing Oconee sewer

A Clemson building moratorium, along with the university pushing students into off-campus housing, creates concern for neighboring Oconee County. And questions arise whether Oconee utilities are capable of accommodating the loads created by continual new development at the county’s east end, across from the city of Clemson and the university. But last night Chris Eleazer, executive director of the Oconee […]

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Benefit for the Salem auditorium

Buying a ticket to a dinner next month will help the cause to restore the auditorium of the former high school in Salem.  The non-profit group OPUS Trust will stage an oyster roast fundraise at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon, February 1 at the Jocassee Valley Brewing Company.  Tickets are pre-sale only $25 dollars for a dozen oysters and a drink.  […]

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