Topping Monday’s civil trial docket

Positioned number one for civil court trial next week at the Oconee Courthouse is the condemnation case Central Electric Power Cooperative vs. Donald Devoe Slisher and others.  The one-week term of Common Pleas Court takes place the week of Monday, January 23, with Judge Scott Sprouse holding the gavel.  Lawrence Flynn Jr. and Alexis Kaylor Lindsay are plaintiff’s attorneys; Samuel Albergotti, […]

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Make sure it’s the real Jeff Underwood

When he played baseball at Walhalla High, Jeff Underwood could slug a baseball.  It’s the same Jeff Underwood who today is a captain with the Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  However, someone is trying to pose as a “Lt. Jeff Underwood” and making calls to county residents.  “Jeff Underwood has been a long time employee of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and […]

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Attorney General makes a Mark Meadows announcement

The following is a late December news release issued by the office of North Carolina’s attorney general:   “The North Carolina Department of Justice today announced that there is not sufficient evidence to bring charges against Mark Meadows or his wife Debra Meadows for alleged voter fraud involving the 2020 election. Attorney General Josh Stein released the following statement: “The […]

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Lawmakers implored to address water intrusions

Oconee’s lawmakers were urged last night to think upstream and support efforts to cleanse waters of chemicals.  Becky Hazelwood, a former Transylvania County, North Carolina resident, complained that as long ago as the middle of the last century manufacturing plants upstream from Oconee County discharged chemicals into waters that run downstream and become part of raw water that is treated […]

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A one-hour participatory exercise in democracy

Oconeeans turned out in droves last night in Westminster to hear and speak with the trio of men who represent them in the state legislative chambers at Columbia.  The approximate one-hour, annual constituents’ meeting arranged by Oconee’s state delegation made for standing-room only in the Westminster Depot.  Some 13 individuals took to the lectern to address the lawmakers on a […]

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Salem official makes appeal to the DOT

A meeting this morning in a conference room at Pine Street was all about better roads and streets.  Inclusive in that is safety.  And, after the breakup of the county’s State “C” Fund Committee meeting, Salem’s Marti Jennings made an appeal to the state DOT’s Randy Russell.  Jennings wants to see something done to slow down n. highway 11 traffic […]

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