Oil losses lower pump prices

The price of oil suffered losses last week and that, according to AAA, enabled the pump charge for gasoline to back away from record highs.  The lower global price of crude oil is now more than $20 cheaper.  By yesterday, South Carolina’s gas price average was $3.96, a 10-cent drop from the week previous.  After hitting a record $4.11 March […]

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Groundbreaking–new Seneca school

A new public school at Seneca, in the next couple of years, will join the nearby Borg Warner complex as landmarks along a stretch of the Wells Highway.  Drawing attention to that yesterday was the break of ground for the school district’s new Seneca middle school.  For the middle age school populations of the Seneca area, they can count on […]

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Joel Ward apologizes to fellow municipal colleagues

The failure of the Oconee Municipal Association to meet over the last four years was described last night as unfortunate and a hindrance to progress the county’s municipal leaders could make toward better government within the county’s five towns and cities.  Seneca Councilman  Joel Ward, chosen to lead the municipal association in 2018, took the blame for not calling meetings. […]

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Clout re-arranged inside municipal group

The Walhalla, West Union, and Westminster mayors grabbed key offices last night within the county’s organized group of municipalities.  It was a rare meeting of the Oconee Municipal Association, and the first since the strife created within the county’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  There might now be more municipal association meetings, as the association is now led by West Union’s […]

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Structure fire

Fire broke out in a storage building in rural Oconee.  No injuries reported in the late night fire on Chevy Lane near the Oconee Creek Road, inside the service territory of the volunteer Picket Post/Camp Oak Fire Department.  A large number of fire fighting agencies and their equipment were mobilized shortly after 9:45 and many remained on the scene for […]

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Shelby Wittrock

Westminster- Shelby Jean Wilson Wittrock, 84, wife of Charles Edward Wittrock, passed away Sunday, March 20th, 2022 at Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital.   Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, Shelby was the daughter of the late Bewley Wilson and Glena Smith Wilson.  Shelby retired from Kendall where she was a machine operator and was of the Baptist Faith.  […]

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Info meeting on spring planting

Learn how you can successfully start vegetables from seeds and then plant them in your garden on Wednesday March 23 at 2:00 p.m. at the Salem Library. This program will go over the basics of growing vegetables from seeds.  What type of soil is good to use for your plants, and what type of pots you can use to plant […]

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