First speakers represented ticket candidates

  Pamela Evette and Harrison Musselwhite were the first candidates to speak to GOP event Saturday at Chau Ram Park.  Evette and Musselwhite occupy positions on opposite Republic tickets for governor.  Evette is the state’s lieutenant governor.  She, along with Governor Henry McMaster, is running for re-election and was the first to speak on Saturday.  We spoke to Evette just […]

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Support for Kathy Maness

  On Saturday, the day of a large Republican rally near Westminster, roadside campaign signs popped up in various parts of Oconee in support of a Lexington woman for state superintendent of education.  Kathy Maness is a former teacher, now the head of the Palmetto State Teachers Association. Today Maness is to receive the endorsement of the woman she aspires […]

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Tragedy on Lake Keowee

The Oconee coroner reports a boating incident death at midafternoon yesterday at an upper section of Lake Keowee.  Coroner Karl Addis says a western North Carolina man died in the hospital emergency department after being extricated from the lake in the boat and taken to Fall Creek Landing access.  The victim sustained cardiac arrest.  He’s a 60-year old resident of […]

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Mail carrier killed in SC 11 wreck

The victim of a fatal crash on highway 11 in rural Pickens County Friday was a 41-year old delivery truck driver.  It was a two-vehicle crash at 11 and the Roy F. Jones Highway in the Sunset Community. Deputy Pickens Coroner Heather Harrison said the victim was Mark Douglas Hunt Jr., unrestrained US mail carrier.  State trooper Brandon Bolton said […]

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Morris Hendrix

Walhalla – Morris Arvie Hendrix, 70, husband of the late Brenda Gail Wilson Hendrix, passed away, Friday, June 3rd, 2022, at Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital.   Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, he was the son of the late Arvie Hendrix and Frances Irene Rankin Hendrix.  Morris was formerly a Treatment Plant Operator for Davis Brothers Lumber Company […]

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Michael David Langston

Bay City, TX– Michael David Langston, 58, of Bay City, TX, passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2022.   Born and raised in Oconee County, SC, Mike was the son of Jess and Marcella Manley Langston. He retired March of 2021, as a Maintenance Supervisor from South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company after working there for 29 years. Mike was […]

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Jake Boyd

Toccoa, GA – Jake Morris Boyd, 40, husband of Robin Deus Boyd, passed away Monday, May 30th, 2022.   Jake was born in Stephens County, Ga and was the son of Jimmy Boyd and Margaret M. and Donnie Alexander.  Jake was a grading foreman with E R Snell, Inc. and was of the Baptist Faith.   Jake was a hard worker […]

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Brandi Michelle Collins

Seneca, SC — Brandi Michelle Collins, 23, of Seneca, SC, passed away on Friday, May 27, 2022.   A native of Seneca, SC, Brandi was the daughter of Michelle V. Collins and the late Bobby Daniel Collins, Jr. She was a member of Monte Vista Baptist Church.   In addition to her parents, Brandi is survived by two sons: Abel […]

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Oconee girls finish empowerment camp

Sixteen Oconee girls have successfully completed a girls’ empowerment camp, sponsored this week by the county sheriff’s office.  These carefully chosen campers enjoyed four days of activities that were fun, educational, and character-building.  And this afternoon there was a graduation ceremony at which all of the girls received mementoes and, perhaps, more important compliments from their counselors, a group of […]

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