Durham misgivings on the Joint Regional Sewer Authority

Matthew Durham, the suspended Oconee County councilman, has published misgivings about the county government’s relationship with the separate body politic Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  In a newsletter, Durham comments:  “I’m of the belief that the county needs to begin to separate ourselves from the toxic OJRSA relationship.  I recently had a commercial developer tell me that his firm was hesitant […]

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Claude Lewis Dickson

Walhalla, SC– Claude Lewis Dickson, 71, husband of Wanda Rutledge Dickson, of Walhalla, passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at his home.   A native of Oconee County, Mr. Dickson was the son of the late Vernon Leon and Edna Ball Dickson. He retired from industrial maintenance at Koyo and was a deacon at Rocky Knoll Baptist Church.   […]

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7-week old “Theo’s” death being investigated

                                                   The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a seven week old infant that occurred on December 26, 2022 at 2:48 PM. (Update:  Coroner Addis identifies the deceased as Theodore “Theo” Sage Raynor, death to blunt force head trauma, and he classifies Theo’s death as homicide).   Deputies from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to an address […]

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South Carolina becoming a “battery belt”

Seneca’s Bill Sandifer, chairman of the state’s Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee, hails the announcements this month that electric vehicle and battery manufacturers are setting up in South Carolina.  Redwood Materials is committing $3.5 billion in the Low Country; Envision AESC, a Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, announced a battery cell giga-factory in Florence County, to create more than […]

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Fatal Christmas Eve fire

Support has been pouring in for an elderly couple and their two grandchildren made homeless Christmas Eve when fire destroyed their home in the Gumlog community of Franklin County, Georgia. The blaze broke out Saturday morning at the home of David and Kaye Gearin on Buttercup Lane in the Gumlog Community. According to Clayton Bryant, the Franklin County Coroner on […]

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Mann Luke “ML” McGuffin Jr.

Westminster – Mann Luke “ML” McGuffin, Jr., 92, husband of the late Gwendolyn Leatherwood McGuffin, passed away Saturday, December 24th, 2022 at Oconee Memorial Hospital surrounded by his loving family.      Born August 28th, 1930, in Oconee County, South Carolina, he was the son of the late Mann Luke McGuffin, Sr. and Kate Cox McGuffin. ML was a United […]

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Carolyn Cochran

Seneca, SC — Carolyn Skelton Cochran, age 99, born in Seneca in January 1923, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Christmas Eve.   She lived her entire life in Seneca; graduating from Seneca High School, attending Furman University during the war years, and marrying William Ray Cochran after he returned from the South Pacific. She began teaching elementary school […]

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