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Here are excerpts from this afternoon’s advisory issued from Columbia by the state’s severe weather official, Frank Strait: “Signs continue to point toward an active weather day tomorrow with the risk of dangerous thunderstorms. A storm now centered over West Texas will be the culprit. If you pick a hazard, this storm is causing it somewhere today. Areas from the […]
Read moreJust days ahead of Donald Trump’s first public 2024 presidential campaign event in the critical early primary state of South Carolina, a new poll from the South Carolina Policy Council (SCPC) shows Palmetto State voters are no longer sold on the former president. And in a head-to-head matchup with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump is behind by a whopping 19%. […]
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The right-of-way property manager for the plaintiff opened the civil trial testimony this morning at the Oconee Courthouse. Columbia-based Central Electric Power has brought a Doctor John’s Road, Westminster couple into the court for a jury determination of just compensation for the taking of a strip of the couple’s property. The taking was made necessary to allow a transmission line […]
Read moreA proactive measure move by Duke Energy satisfied an emergency protocol, in the estimation of “FERC”–the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. After the Greenville-Spartanburg National Weather Service office predicted 3-4 inches of rain in the Lake Keowee watershed, Duke lowered the lake level. The Maintenance and Emergency Protocol attached to the Keowee-Toxaway license allows Duke to reduce reservoir levels for high-inflow […]
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A bridge over a southern Oconee creek is in line to be replaced, and South Carolina DOT has opened a public comment period. Thru February 15, DOT will accept comment on plans to replace the secondary 99/Rogers Road bridge over Mud Creek.
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The police in Seneca say they found a man wearing a red stocking hat in the bathroom of a community building at 5 am last Friday and arrested the 30-year old on multiple charges. Law enforcement records show charges of burglary second degree and possession of drugs at the Blue Ridge Community Center on Holland Avenue. The police quoted the […]
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The attorney for a former Florida couple who fell in love with 40 acres near Westminster describes their property as the “jewel in a valley.” Donald and Debbie Slisher built a home on the Dr. John’s Road in the same vicinity where a Civil War surgeon lived. The Slishers bought their property in 1990 and, according to Attorney Samuel Albergotti, […]
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Oconee County Animal Control and the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a dog attack that occurred yesterday near Seneca in which one man and one woman suffered injuries. The E-911/Communications Center received a call around 11:08am today from a woman who suffered injuries from being bitten by dogs on Burns Drive. While on the initial victim was on […]
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Oconee court bailiffs are transporting a civil jury to 40 acres of property near Westminster this afternoon so that the jurors will have been able to see the acreage that is subject of a special proceeding this week in the Court of Common Pleas. A determination of “just compensation” will be duty of the jury in the case of Central […]
Read more“Lakeview Place” is the name given for a proposed new home development that’s being designed to take a bite out of the local area’s shortfall of low income housing – or what’s called affordable housing for working individuals and families. Those who attended a hearing this morning at Seneca’s Shaver complex saw drawings and heard from a representative of the […]
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