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A group called “Citizens for Childhood Education in Oconee, SC” is announcing plans for “Meet and Greet” events featuring the candidates this year for seats on the county board of trustees. The first is to be an event to allow the public to meet and hear the three candidates for Seat #1—Dean Bare, Amanda Holder, and Keri Unsworth. That one […]
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Cartee wrecking has deployed some of its largest equipment to the scene of an accident involving serious vehicle damage near Seneca. Cartee’s task this morning is to figure how to remove a car and a trash truck from an embankment betwixt SC 28 and the Frontage Road to the side of Perry Ellis International. The embankment is covered by tree […]
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The spokesman for Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Master Deputy Jimmy Watt, says a new drug sweep is underway across the county. The roundup, he says, started yesterday. At least 2o people named as violators.
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The newest judge in Oconee, according to County Administrator Amanda Brock, is Cody Alexander. He begins filling his duties as a part-time county magistrate – a newly-created position. Apparently, there is at least one other judicial office to be filled in the county. Seneca Magistrate Todd Simmons resigned this summer. Seneca Magistrate is a full-time position.
Read moreA large bear has been seen at night, roaming the Dendy Woods subdivision on Fowler Road near Walhalla. Video surveillance there by one resident shows a bear meandering around the house — not at all deterred by the house lights inside.
Read moreIn the Atlantic there’s now a named system: Tropical Storm Danielle, which has formed between Bermuda and the Azores along a dying stationary front. Danielle is nearly hurricane strength, at 70 MPH. Frank Strait at the South Carolina Climate Office says, however, Danielle is NOT going to pass anywhere near SC.
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Businesses that are solicited to consider Oconee’s southernmost industrial park acreage are liable to think the topography there is challenging. County administration wants to do something to remedy the situation at the Golden Corner Commerce Park on highway 59. On Tuesday night next week, county council will be asked to allot $1.5M for clearing and grading. The recommendation is scheduled […]
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The state has placed 10 of its 46 counties in the category of higher-than-normal rainfall. The ten are coastal counties and their drought status is downgraded, the result of a conference call by the South Carolina Drought Response Committee. Oconee, Anderson, and Pickens, along with 11 other counties, were upgraded to incipient–the first level of drought, which is followed by […]
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The duty shall fall to a 10th circuit judge from Anderson to decide whether Jason Mark Carter leaves the state mental health facilities for what’s called a community residential care facility. However, the circuit solicitor and relatives of Carter’s murdered parents are adamant that allowing Carter to move to what Solicitor Wagner likens to a half-way house bodes danger to […]
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The pending criminal charges against a suspended Oconee County Councilman appear headed for a jury in the spring of next year. Judge McIntosh told the attorney for Matthew Durham that he will direct that a week in April will be designated as trial week for Durham—who faces domestic violence and neglect of child offenses. And that’s despite Durham attorney Keith […]
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