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The defense in the Oconee trial alleging medical malpractice has called its last witness, and now the attorneys for both sides are preparing their final arguments to the jury. Once those arguments are completed, the judge will charge the jury on the law, and it’ll be up to the 12 men and women to make a decision in Hess v. […]

A home builder sustained what were described as crushing injuries yesterday afternoon in the collapse of a roof truss at a construction site near Walhalla. The accident scene was a home construction site in the Falcon’s Lair subdivision. Walhalla Fire Department assisted in the set up of a helicopter landing zone for a medical transportation air flight.

It’s election season time within the multi-county service territory of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative. And one Oconee County resident is making himself available to serve a new term on the policy-making board of the retail electric power supplier. Builder Joel Davis will seek support to be re-nominated during a meeting next week of Blue Ridge District One customers in […]

School choice within Oconee public schools will open on Friday, March 1 and continue until June 7. If you would like your child to attend a school outside the attendance area in which you live, you are asked to complete on online school choice request that can be found on the district website under the parent’s tab. If you can’t […]

The Prisma Health campus of Oconee Memorial Hospital will break ground in April or May for a Center of Family Medicine adjoining the Cancers Center on the hospital grounds. Hunter Kome, chief operating officer for Oconee Memorial, told the hospital’s Holdings Board last night that the location is the ground where the Hospital Foundation has staged fundraising golf ball drops. […]

Property near the Oconee Memorial Hospital has begun to take on the look of a construction zone, as the Foothills Area YMCA announces that it has closed on its construction loan with United Community Bank and its long-term financing with the USDA. The closing is regarded as a milestone for it allows the construction of the project to fully begin.

A one-day trial in the Oconee General Sessions Court ended with the conviction of the defendant on a lesser charge. The jury found Billy Whitmire guilty of domestic violence third degree. Whitmire went on trial charged with domestic violence second degree. Judge Scott Sprouse ordered a 90-day prison term, suspended to two years probation and the requirement to take domestic […]

Clemson faculty and students will gather on Saturday for their annual Out of Darkness Campus Walk. The event serves as a fundraiser and the chance for the community to raise awareness of mental health issues related to suicide. You can register for the walk starting at 11 am in front of Tillman Hall. Out of Darkness walks are so named […]

A defense witness testified this morning by video tape that a condition causing sudden but painless loss of vision is “very rare” and he believes it was reasonable for Oconee emergency room doctor Miles McGuff to have considered a detached retina as a working diagnosis. The jury has heard testimony documenting central retina artery occlusion as the cause for the […]

Separate trials are planned today on separate floors of the Oconee County County Courthouse. A one-week term of General Sessions Court has taken over the fourth floor courtroom for the trial of South Carolina versus Billy Whitmire, charged with domestic violence second degree. A floor below, the civil case of Hess v. McGuff and the Oconee Medical Center went into […]