The battle against opioid overdose in South Carolina

South Carolina DHEC credits state firefighters with a significant impact in the battle against opioid overdose deaths by administering antidotes. A milestone number of 200 naloxone administrations for suspected overdoses was achieved last week. The Reducing Opioid Loss of Life (ROLL) program is voluntary and trains any fire department to administer the opioid antidote naloxone, including departments not staffed with […]

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Janette Sheriff

    Westminster – Janette Louise Marsengill Sheriff, 81, wife of Hoyt “Ed” Sheriff, passed away Monday, October 26th, 2020 at her residence. Born in Seneca, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Edgar Judson and Nellie Corina Carver Marsengill. Mrs. Sheriff retired from West Point Stevens after 47 years of service as an inspector. Janette was a […]

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Dr. William “Bill” P. Jenkins

  Brevard, NC – Dr. William “Bill” Pressley Jenkins, 76, husband of Linda Faye Moore Jenkins, of 284 College View Terrace, Brevard, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2020, at his home.   A native of Gastonia, NC, Dr. Jenkins was the son of the late Luco and Macie Lockridge Jenkins. He was the former owner and operator of MediVision for […]

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Plans for high-speed internet across five counties

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative has found a partner for its project to spread high-speed internet across its five-county service territory.  Jim Lovinggood, president/CEO, today announced a partnership with WC-FIBER, a subsidiary of Abbeville-based West Carolina Telephone Cooperative.  According to the results of two-year study, Blue Ridge members have shown a need for high-speed internet across large parts of the electric […]

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Guns stolen in burglary, arrest made

  Pistol, rifle, shotgun. They are among the weaponry stolen in a home burglary over the weekend near Westminster.  A 27-year old man has been arrested.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, William Kyle Craig of Howling Lane was arrested and jailed Saturday on charges of grand larceny and first degree burglary.  Some of the stolen weaponry has been retrieved […]

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Playing traffic cop at the absentee precinct

If you are returning in-person your completed mail ballot, there is no need to wait in the line outside the Oconee County administrative complex on S. Pine Street in Walhalla.  The outdoor line is for persons casting their ballot inside.  Joy Scharich, elections director, says if you are returning a completed ballot in a sealed envelope, go directly to the […]

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Seven cases reported by Oconee schools

Seven new cases of COVID-19 popped up on the virus tracking page kept by the Oconee public schools for Friday, October 23.  They are as follows:  an employee at Walhalla James Brown Elementary; a student at West-Oak High/Hamilton Career Center; a student at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary; a case at the West-Oak High bus area; and three Seneca High School […]

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Early voting confusion

Apparently some Oconee voters have begun to show up at the wrong place.  That has prompted the following announcement today from Joy Scharich, elections director:  “ALL early voting is at 415 S. Pine St. in Walhalla 8:30-5.  Precincts are only open on Election Day (Phones are flooded with voters asking where they go and they went to their polling place […]

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