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Environmental services workers at Prisma Health hospitals, including Oconee Memorial, face permanent layoffs as Prisma transitions to a new company providing hospital cleaning work, according to a state list of dislocated workers. Potentially affected by permanent layoffs are 41 Oconee Memorial workers. However, a Prisma Health news release says no jobs are being eliminated during the transition and laid-off employees […]
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Dan Suddeth will call to order a meeting of the Oconee Aeronautics Commission. That meeting will be 5:30 Thursday evening at the airport, where the commissioners, among other business, will select new officers, including a chairman, a vice chairman, and a secretary.
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The July meeting of Walhalla City Council will be 5:30 tomorrow evening at city hall. On the agenda: contract for a building official; the approval of a memorandum of understanding with Main Street Walhalla; and repairs to a sanitation truck.
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Youth baseball at a state level continues this week in Clemson. The city parks and recreation department hosts the 10 and under State Dixie Youth tourney at Nettles Park. Through Wednesday, you can expect higher than normal traffic and congestion at the entrance to the park. Spectators are welcome. Admittance is $8 dollars adults, $5 dollars children; 6 and under […]
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A 39-year old Oconee woman has been located and, according to the Westminster police chief, she is safe. Authorities have called off their missing person alert for Valerie Poole.
Read moreSeneca – Sara Janie Jordan Whitfield, 73, wife of the late Jerry Glenn Whitfield, passed away on Saturday, July 15, 2023 at Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born in Fair Play, South Carolina, Sara was the daughter of the late Joe Jordan and Janie Brake Jordan. Sara was a retired seamstress and of the Baptist Faith. Sara enjoyed […]
Read moreSalem, SC — Roberta “Bertie” Smith Gibson, 91, wife of Joseph Gibson, of Salem, SC, passed away on Friday, July 14, 2023, at Greenville Memorial Hospital. A native of Haywood County, NC, Mrs. Gibson was the daughter of the late Lucius B. and Eullah Medford Smith. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Salem, SC. In […]
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Resolutions that have been passed by at least two Oconee County Republican precincts are going to be added to the agenda for a meeting next week of the county party, according to an announcement today by Jim Mann, the county chairman. One resolution would censure the Statehouse Republicans on what is described as an impasse between the state Freedom Caucus […]
Read moreThe Westminster Police Department is seeking the public’s help today in locating a missing Oconee County woman. 37-year-old Valerie Elizabeth Poole was reported missing during the late evening hours of Wednesday, July 12th. Valerie was last seen at an address on S. Bibb Street, in the city limits of Westminster, around 11:30 pm Wednesday. Valerie is 5’4″ tall and weighs […]
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Warrants disclosed by “SLED” — the state police — show Charles Jeffrey Underwood, 48, a former Oconee sheriff’s officer, charged with misconduct in office and petty larceny. The following statement yesterday from Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw: “At approximately 12 Noon today, Captain Jeff Underwood’s employment was terminated at the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. Captain Underwood began his employment with the […]
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