Three days of South Carolina COVID numbers

Three days of new COVID-19 numbers are reported today by South Carolina DHEC.  On the counts made Thursday:  2,277 new cases statewide, including 65 in Oconee County. The count Friday showed 2,339 new cases, including 56 in Oconee.  Saturday’s count:  1,827 new state cases, including 33 in Oconee.  New, confirmed deaths Thursday:  33 in the state, including one Oconee resident; […]

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Promising forecast for brilliant fall colors

A forest ecologist who has been making foliage predictions for nine years from Clemson University believes there will be brilliant colors this fall in the higher elevations.  Don Hagan paid a visit to the western edge of the Pisgah National Forest, 5,500′ in the air, and saw no evidence of drought-caused stress.  Instead he found a full canopy of leaves […]

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New COVID test option for students and staff

Oconee public schools are partnering with DHEC to increase the availability of tests for county students and staff.  Drive-thru tests will available Monday through Friday at the Bountyland Education Campus from 8 am to 2 pm.  The PCR test specimen will be collected by a nasal swab, and those tested may, for the most part, expect results within 24 hours.  […]

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Van overturns on I-85 bridge

A van carrying four people went out of control and overturned this morning on I-85 at Fair Play.  The Fair Play Volunteer Fire Department reported minor injuries to those involved.  The accident occurred around 7 o’clock this morning I-85 northbound on the bridge over the Fair Play Creek section of Lake Hartwell.  The left northbound lane was blocked to traffic […]

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Olvera v. City of Walhalla et al — settled

A lawsuit that alleged excessive force by Walhalla police officers has been settled, according to an order filed last week by a federal judge.  The filing last week in U-S District Court, signed by Judge Joseph Dawson III, states that the case against Walhalla and two officers has been settled without prejudice, a legal term meaning that a new lawsuit […]

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Upping the ante in the Tucker Hipps case

An additional pledge has raised to $75 thousand the reward money to solve the death of Clemson student Tucker Hipps.  Crime Stoppers of Oconee has announced an additional $25 thousand is available, after the chief executive officer of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity last Thursday reached out to Helen Westmoreland, coordinator of Oconee Crimestoppers.  Earlier, last week, a private donor pledged […]

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Tamassee’s new residential program is official

The new residential program for mothers and their children at the Tamassee DAR School became official Saturday afternoon with the announcement made during welcome and opening ceremony for the 2021 Founders Day program for a school tucked away in northern Oconee where, for more than 100 years, has educated the under-served and under-privileged of Appalachia.  The Rev. Jon Holland, school […]

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