CurTec to make $13M investment in Oconee

A maker of sustainable, high-performance packaging, will open operations in Oconee County.  The announcement by the company CurTec will mean a $13 million investment and 32 jobs over the next five years.  Based in the Netherlands and founded in 1991, CurTec makes plastic drums, pails and jars for leading pharmaceutical, specialty chemicals and food ingredient companies.  The entry into the […]

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Reminder: There’s a public health clinic in Walhalla

A sign adorned in Clemson University colors appeared yesterday and is a reminder that, inside a county-owned building, there’s a public health clinic in Walhalla.  The Clemson University Joseph F. Sullivan operation is available to those in medical needs on Fridays.  Amanda Brock, county administrator, hopes there’ll be more use in that building on a block between S. Broad Street […]

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Three or six new officers?

Oconee County fathers heard appeals last night to beef up law enforcement by raising officer pay and hiring additional officers, as many as six.  Those appeals came not from Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, but from a couple of members of the public, one of them an announced hopeful for the county council later this year.  Stressed last night was the thought […]

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Chairman Elliott, again, vows no tax hike

Chairman John Elliott of Oconee County Council sought to make clear last night that current council will not approve a property tax increase for the next budget year–2022-23.  His comments were a repeat of an earlier declaration.  Last night Elliott spoke against after an audience member suggested that the next countywide property reappraisal will have the effect of raising taxes […]

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Economic development announcement today

Announcement is to be made today of the arrival of a new employer to locate inside the Oconee County Industry and Technology Park on highway 11.  So far, the employer has been publicly identified by the code name “Queso.”  Last night members of Oconee County Council heralded the creation of jobs, along with the work by the Oconee Economic Alliance […]

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Sentencing for John Towery and co-defendants

U-S District Court in South Carolina announces sentences in a sex trafficking case in which adults engaged in conspiracies to sex traffic minor children and make child porn.  Federal Judge Coggins placed John Towery, a former Fair-Oak Elementary school officer, along with co-defendant Duwione Allen on five years’ probation with house arrest.  Other sentences were much stiffer.  Gary Garland of […]

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Homicide on the waters of Lake Keowee

Oconee sheriff’s investigators say “all parties” in a fatal shooting yesterday afternoon on Lake Keowee near Salem have been identified and are cooperating.  However, the names of those involved and specific details of what happened are not being released at this time.  Coroner Karl Addis says a homicide occurred when a 29-year old Walhalla man died of an apparent gunshot […]

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Lake Keowee shooting incident

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office issued the following statement this afternoon, in response to news media inquiries about an incident reported at or near Lake Keowee: “The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported shooting that occurred this afternoon on Lake Keowee near the Salem area.  Deputies with the Uniform Patrol Division, the Criminal Investigations Division and the Special Operations […]

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Is the BA.2 variant a concern for South Carolina?

The White House expects the BA.2 variant of COVID to increase, considering that there are 35 thousand cases in the U-S.  In South Carolina, there are 15 known cases, according to a DHEC spokesman.  DHEC’s Derrek Asbury added this:  “Early, preliminary information about the subvariant suggests it may be more transmissible than the original form of Omicron, but it does […]

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