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If you’ve wondered about the activity of late in a middle of the block Main Street in Walhalla, indications are 222 E. Main is to be the new home of Partners in Wine. The wine-serving business is on the move after a controversy involving window displays at its existing location across the street. In a legal advertisement, the state Department […]
Read moreDuke Energy believes its resources are sufficient to meet the energy needs of customers as the temperatures climb the thermometer. The utility says it continues to monitor its power plants, power lines and other equipment to help ensure customers get reliable service during the summer heat. Nevertheless, Duke offers tips to help customers save energy – and money – and […]
Read moreSeneca– Mary Lou Owens Price, 86, wife of the late Bobby Lee Price of 2210 Blue Ridge Blvd., passed away on Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 at Cottingham Hospice House. Mary Lou was born in Oconee County, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Owens and Cora Davis Owens. Mary Lou retired from West Point Stevens as a Department […]
Read moreWestminster – Kristin Nicole “Nikki” Wheeler, 46, of 108 Chambers Dr., wife of Steven Oliver Nabors, passed away on Saturday, July 24th, 2021 at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Nikki was born in Dayton, Ohio, and was the daughter of Joseph Brown and Pamela Kershner Brown. Nikki was a homemaker and enjoyed spending time with her family and travelling to the […]
Read moreSouth Carolina’s 3rd District representative Jeff Duncan and Democratic and an Independent counterparts in the House are reviving a bill that they believe would facilitate improved management of chronic care patients. The bill is called the Seniors’ Chronic Care Management Improvement Act. Duncan, Vermont Independent Peter Welch, and Washington State Democrat Suzan DelBene believe that, for Medicare beneficiaries, chronic care […]
Read moreThe state police have put out a reminder that South Carolina’s new open carry measure becomes law on Sunday, August 15. The governor signed the legislation in May. It had a 90-day implementation delay. The new law removes the “SLED” application for all Concealed Weapons Permit applications on or after August 15. No application fee will be required for any […]
Read moreOnce again, South Carolina has surpassed one thousand new confirmed cases of COVID-19 for a 24-hour period. The DHEC numbers reported today reflect the count that ended at 11:59 Tuesday night. Of 1,200 new cases, 26 of them were Oconee County residents. Statewide, the death toll rose by four South Carolina residents. Of 9,604 test results received, the positivity was […]
Read moreA county marshal in Stephens County, Georgia stepped in to escort a zoning applicant out of a testy land use hearing in front of that county’s board of commissioners. Things got heated in debate over whether Bernard Wood of Slice of Heaven Drive would be allowed to have his properties rezoned from residential single-family to agricultural. Neighbors objected to Wood’s […]
Read moreThe world outside Oconee this week got to see one of the county’s top possessions when, for the first time outside the county, the Medal of Honor awarded to Lewis G. Watkins was displayed at a Greenville event organized by that county’s veterans association. And a volunteer at the Oconee Veterans Museum at Walhalla, Pam Dowd, felt honored to be […]
Read moreOconee County Planning Commission will entertain comments next week on an application to change the zoning on some four acres along Lake Keowee near West Union. The planning commissioners’ hearing will consider a request by James and Diane Neal to rezone 4.3 acres on Waterstone Drive from conservation district to lake residential district. The hearing will be 6 o’clock Monday […]
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