New COVID-19 announcement

“The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is updating its isolation and quarantine guidance to reflect certain aspects of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated federal guidance issued earlier this week. Below are key points of DHEC’s current recommendations: If You Tested Positive (Isolation): If you test positive for COVID-19, you need to isolate […]

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“A justifiable homicide” determination

A review of evidence in the case of a Pickens County shooting death results in a determination by the sheriff’s office and the 13th Greenville-Pickens Solicitor’s Office that the shooting death December 19 of Stephen Wayne Kneece near Liberty was “a justifiable homicide.”  The Pickens Sheriff’s Office made this announcement today:  “Through the course of the investigation, detectives learned that […]

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Face mask consideration in Clemson

An ordinance to require facial coverings in Clemson will go back before the Clemson City Council during the council’s first meeting of the New Year.  It’s an agenda item for the night of Monday, January 3, as well as a report from physician Ted Swan on the local impact of COVID and the presence of variants.

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Why Scott believes Weill should not head agency

Dr. David Weill has supported government crackdowns on workforce models of Uber Technologies and other gig-economy companies, but Sen. Tim Scott says the Brandeis University dean is not the right person to head the Department of Labor Wage & Hour Division.  Scott and a handful of other Republican senators have sent a letter to President Biden outlining why they believe […]

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New Year’s holiday government schedules

Oconee County’s landfill, transfer station, and recycling services will run at regular time tomorrow on New Year’s Eve.  All will be closed on Saturday, New Year’s Day.  Walhalla trash pickups scheduled for Monday, January 3 will take place instead on Tuesday, the 4th.  All other Walhalla sanitation routes should remain on schedule.  There’s possibility the brush pickups will be delayed.  […]

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COVID cases have never been higher

COVID cases have never been higher in the U-S than they are right now.  Three people are testing positive for COVID every second across the country.  Each day just prior to Christmas and afterward South Carolina has recorded confirmed cases between 1,129 and 2,120.  Statewide test percentages are double digits, the highest of which was 23.8% recorded on Monday.  The […]

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Missing man found and he is OK

75 year old Samuel Capsouto, who was the subject of a Missing Person’s News Release earlier today, has been located and is safe.  Dispatch was notified of Samuel’s location around Noon today.   According to Investigator Jimmy Dixon, Samuel was located in a wooded area at the Summit Subdivision near Seneca.  Out of an abundance of caution due to be […]

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