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Nine students and ten employees have been added to the COVID-19 tracking page kept by the Oconee School District. Five of the cases are at Seneca High School. Five classes, containing some of the district’s youngest pupils, have been sent home and given February 2 return dates. Two of the classes are at Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary.
Read morePrisma Health of South Carolina, along with the public health department serving northeast Georgia, and the state of New Jersey, among others, share a common distinction. Their providers of COVID-19 vaccines have exhausted their supplies or are running dangerously low. Georgia’s District Two Public has stopped making appointments for the time being. Toccoa Radio WNEG quotes the department spokesman as […]
Read moreA new announcement this morning from the Rosa Clark Medical Clinic at Seneca. Rosa Clark was unable today to register as a third party provider. What that means, according to Rosa Clark’s Vicki Thompson, is that the clinic will NOT have to create emails for anyone or send them links to the site. “Staff will be able to register them […]
Read moreA man awaiting trial in Oconee County on the charge of murder wants new representation. Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons said yesterday that defendant Decota Brown wants a new lawyer. He’s charged with killing his grandmother, Geraldine Castle, in a Seneca home in March 2019. But the trial is in an indefinite delay as the chief justice, influenced by spiking COVID […]
Read moreElectric power outages are reported in Oconee County during a night of rain and thunder. Lightning hit a tree in Walhalla and a bolt from that lightning penetrated a home on E. Mauldin Street. No one was hurt. A motor vehicle accident led to one outage early yesterday afternoon near Salem. The Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative reported more than 440 […]
Read moreIt takes two shots of COVID-19 vaccine to get maximum protection against the disease, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reminded the public today. Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are 94 to 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, but only after you receive both shots. “It’s extremely important to remember that both vaccines currently available […]
Read moreSalem – Eloise Bennett Hamilton, 87, wife of the late Alvin D. Hamilton, passed away Monday, January 25th, 2021 at her residence. Eloise was born in Salem, SC, was the daughter of the late Vondiver and Fay Belle Harris Bennett. Mrs. Hamilton previously worked at the Salem Garment plant as a seamstress, was a member of Fall Creek Baptist […]
Read moreToday’s numbers: 2,736 new South Carolina cases; 72 Oconee cases. Statewide: five new deaths (none in Oconee). Of 10,798 test results received statewide, the new positivity is 25.3%. According to Dr. Traxler, the state’s acting health director, South Carolina is experiencing a “small plateau” in both case and death numbers. But it means that while the case and death numbers […]
Read moreFair Play – Bessie “Marie” Turner Cater, 88, wife of the late, William Harold Cater, of 399 Leroy Road, passed away Sunday, January 24th, 2021 at Cottingham Hospice House. Born in Pickens County, SC, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Hazel Finley Turner. She retired from Food Services, serving in many plants, and was a member […]
Read moreOne person, using a storage building as a place to live, avoided injury in an early morning fire near Seneca. The fire occurred at 204 Goddard Avenue in the Utica Community. The building was destroyed. Chief Richie Caudill of the Seneca Fire Department says the cause of the fire is undetermined.
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