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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Chairmanship change

A Seneca representative will now hold the gavel during meetings of the board that sets policy for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority. The JRSA’s long-time chairman, Walhalla’s Scott Parris, took himself out of consideration for a new term during the 2020 re-organization meeting of the sewer commissioners. In Parris’s spot will be Seneca’s Scott Moulder. Westminster’s Brian Ramey nominated Parris […]

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Janice Crooks

Seneca – Janice Capps Crook, 66, passed away January 5, 2020, at Prisma Health-Oconee Memorial Hospital. A Funeral Service will be held 2:00 pm, Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at Sandifer Funeral Home Chapel. Burial to follow at Heritage Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 12:30 – 1:30 pm, prior to the service at Sandifer Funeral Home. The family […]

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