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Oconee high schoolers enrolled in the culinary arts program offered by the Fred P. Hamilton Career and Technology Center are said to be learning skills to prepare for the adult world. The culinary students prepare food at the career center’s Considerate Cafe. What they learn, they can add to their resumes, and ultimately get work in the community. The career […]
Read moreClemson City Council will devote part of its February meeting next week to add to the recognition given a driver for “CAT”–Clemson Area Transit. For a humanitarian reaction on New Year’s Day, Sawyer Gambrell spotted something wrong as he wheeled his bus into the apartment complex Clemson Reserve. He saw a truck with a trailer halfway onto the sidewalk, and […]
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Clemson’s elected leaders are primed to act next week on phase one of a regional greenway. The Pickens County municipality received interest from at least five contractors. The idea to connect the trail west into Oconee County a year ago was met with division on the part of Oconee’s (then) five-member county council. In a vote of 3-2 on February […]
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A 35-year old Easley man is accused in Oconee arrest warrants of luring a teenager from home using sex and illicit drugs as a decoy. Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces the arrest of Jeremy David Barnes on charges of kidnapping and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. According to investigators, the teenager was located this week and is safe. The […]
Read moreA year after they arrived, some 50 refugees from Afghanistan are said to have adjusted well to their new lives in Clemson, according to a statement by Mayor Robert Halfacre. He says Afghanis have landed well-paying jobs which allow them to support themselves and their families. Many of the refugees, however, are single men who directly supported U-S operations in […]
Read moreThe state’s chief justice has opened the way for a Charleston housing court pilot project to all 46 South Carolina counties, and Oconee’s magistrates will consider the possibility. An order by Chief Justice Donald Beatty noted that the South Carolina Access to Justice Commission recognized the Charleston program for securing additional funds through the Eviction Protection Grant Program of Housing […]
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Dollar General stores appear to be everywhere, so why not a remote part of 123 headed west from Westminster? Work was underway on 123/the Toccoa Highway near Pickens Road this morning at what’s thought to be a new Dollar General. A Facebook entry suggests the store could be the start of a re-birth of what became a lonely stretch of […]
Read moreA “no bull” story was told on Coffee Time this morning on 94.1 The Lake, WSNW Radio. Mayor Alexander and City Administrator Moulder talked about a bull that got loose yesterday and made it into Cross Creek and nearby Dalton Bend before a police officer is credited with wrestling the bull, perhaps, by grabbing its horns.
Read moreRep. Jeff Duncan, South Carolina Republican in the 3rd District, believes a bi-partisan vote of 227-203 is a victory toward ending a Biden administration mandate that healthcare workers are required to take the COVID vaccine as a condition of keeping their jobs. “I began leading the charge”, said Duncan, “against Joe Biden’s authoritarian vaccine mandate in 2021, when the frontline […]
Read moreSouth Carolina’s new boss of public education, Ellen Weaver, gave state lawmakers yesterday her priorities in education spending: teacher and bus driver pay, literacy instruction, and support for the governor’s school safety initiatives. And Oconee’s senior member of the House in Columbia, Seneca’s Bill Sandifer, predicts House members are going to debate the creation of a Center for School Safety […]
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