Keep Oconee Beautiful Association new calendar

The 2023 Keep Oconee Beautiful calendars have been published.  They feature color photographs of various spots of the county’s beauty, snapped by local photographers.  One, in particular, is a snap by Clem Watson of Lower Whitewater Falls drenched in multiple autumn colors.  Copies of the calendar are available through the Keep Oconee Beautiful Association, by contacting Phil Soper.

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Highlands, North Carolina’s drinking supply and its ice-covered lakes

The water tanks in Highlands, North Carolina are filling today to normal levels, and the town says, “Our water plant continues to produce an adequate supply of water to meet all town needs.”  Yet, there’s concern on Highlands’ part that with a significant rise in temperatures, there is still worry that water systems in unoccupied buildings may start to leak […]

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Tomorrow, jurist to don different robe

Danny Singleton can shed the title of Oconee Probate Judge-elect when he takes the oath of office in an Oconee County Courthouse ceremony.  After having been elected unopposed in November, Singleton retired as a long-time Seneca municipal judge, to prepare himself for the variety of duties required of a county probate judge, headquartered in the county office complex on Walhalla’s […]

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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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