Customers get a blend of water

Customers of Pioneer Rural Water of Oconee-Anderson are being served with a blend of treated lake water – some of it from Lake Hartwell, some of it from Lake Keowee.  As it was explained at an Oakway meeting today, “M-I-B” has a distinct earthly or musty odor.  Buying water from nearby Seneca, Pioneer is able to offset the intrusion of […]

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The police response to Robert Talley’s death

This account is provided by Matt Patterson, chief of Westminster police: “Officers from the Westminster Police Department responded to reports of a traffic accident yesterday afternoon on the Westminster Highway. Officers were dispatched to the scene around 4:39pm Monday.  While enroute, officers were informed that the driver of the vehicle involved was unresponsive.  Upon arriving on scene, officers observed a […]

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By one-vote, a statue may not be placed

In a meeting of all five members of a Seneca regulatory board, a restaurant south of the railroad won’t be allowed to erect a 16’ statue.  The board of architectural review (“BOAR”) voted to deny Jim Rowe’s request to be allowed to place the statue inside the historic district at Dimas Brothers Café on S. Fairplay Street.  The vote last […]

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Civil suit filed over incidents alleged in jail

Jail overcrowding and supervision and training of employees are allegations contained in a lawsuit filed yesterday in the Oconee Common Pleas Court.  The complaint on behalf of Christopher Wade Prichard, identified as an Oconee jail inmate in 2021, names the Oconee Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Crenshaw, in his official capacity, as defendants.  The lawsuit claims that Prichard, while in jail […]

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Lawsuit dismissed

A lawsuit between the Tamassee DAR School and the Missouri State Society DAR is no more.  The suit involved a financial dispute.  But Andrew Holliday of Seneca, attorney for plaintiff Tamassee DAR, recently filed in the Oconee Common Pleas Court a stipulation of dismissal.  In a motion for dismissal, an attorney for the defendant asserted that the plaintiff’s claims are […]

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Cleaner and safer sewer operations

Can the messy business of sewer be made cleaner?  It’s a question that Chris Eleazer sought to answer during yesterday’s board meeting of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  Not just cleaner, but also tidier, and safer in Eleazer’s estimation.  And he referred to the state health authority’s evaluation of the complex at Seneca’s southern edge.  

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A resolution supports Durham, Hart, and Mize

The move last month by the new conservative majority on the Oconee County Council to cut spending has met with approval of Mountain Rest Republicans meeting yesterday.  A resolution arising from the Mountain Rest GOP meeting above the signatures of Doug Hedden, precinct president; and Al De La Costa, precinct secretary, reads, in part, “Be it resolved that the Mountain […]

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