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The Clemson authority on autumn foliage predicts conditions are such that you’ll be able to take in leaf changes earlier than normal this year. Don Hagan of the Clemson Department of Forestry and Environment Conservation made the prediction standing at the edge of North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest and noted that color change has already begun at higher elevations – […]
Read moreSeneca – Dorothy Kathleen Worley Holbrooks, 75, wife of the late Dennis Wayne Holbrooks, passed away, Sunday, October 2, 2022 at Fleetwood Post-Acute. Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, Dorothy was the daughter of the late Marvin Worley and Mildred Franks Worley. Dorothy worked for Jantzen and she operated the concessions stand at the Westminster Speedway. Dorothy is […]
Read moreA couple from the television reality world, former Westminster residents Julie and Todd Chrisley, are fighting their fraud convictions, according to a recent People magazine article. People reported the date of this Thursday—October 6—for the Chrisleys’ sentencing has been postponed and re-scheduled for November 21. Meantime, People quoted documents in the Atlanta Division of the U-S Northern District of Georgia […]
Read moreA Jeep Liberty apparently left a turnaround drive and crashed into the side of the Walhalla school bus building, next door to the middle school campus. Authorities say no one was on the other side of the building, and the driver was checked by EMS for injury. The accident occurred during the 9 o’clock hour. It brought to the scene […]
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A closed section of 2-lane U-S 76 north of Westminster has re-opened to traffic, after crews responded to the wreckage created by an over-turned fuel truck early last evening, according to Oconee Sheriff’s Office.
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One state agency is at odds with another, in the aftermath of the closing last year of a Seneca funeral home. Keowee Funeral Services closed after the death of its founder, Heyward Scott III. The South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs entered a lawsuit last week in the Common Pleas Court against the state Department of Revenue, Keowee Funeral […]
Read moreWestminster – Clarence Norman Burch, 79, passed away on Sunday, October 2rd, 2022 at Piedmont Post-Acute Care. Born in Franklin, North Carolina, Clarence was the son of the late Buford and Goldie Dills Burch. Clarence was a United States Army Veteran, who retired from Kendell/Covidien and was a known taxidermist, and a member of Westminster First Baptist Church. […]
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A 54 year-old Franklin, NC man died Sunday evening in Oconee County at approximately 6:15 pm after a single vehicle collision. The deceased was the driver of an 18-wheeler fuel truck which overturned on Long Creek Highway (U.S. 76) near Spy Rock Road west of Westminster. He died at the scene. He was in transit from the fuel depot at […]
Read moreSeneca- Isaiah Troy King, infant son of Isaiah Dacota King and Rachel Grace Roach, passed away September 30th, 2022, at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. In addition to his parents, Troy is survived by grandparents, Bryian and Michelle King of Seneca; Diane and Wayne Roach of Walhalla; great grandparents; Judy King, Randall and Ethel Cobb, and Hazel Roach; aunts, […]
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If you missed one or both Oconee school board forums in the last two weekends, don’t fret. There’s still time to eyeball all of the county trustee candidates at one time in one place and hear what they have to say. That’s 7 to 8:30 tonight at Seneca’s Gignilliat Center on N. Townville Street. The League of Women Voters of […]
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