Category: News

Traffic southbound late yesterday afternoon on I-85 slowed down in Oconee County, in advance of roadwork in progress across the state line in Georgia.  As far back as exit 4, according to Fair Play Fire Department, a tractor-trailer truck hit one vehicle and pushed it into two others.  Chief Larry Wilkerson says a mother and a child were transported by […]

The state police are out with guidance to the public regarding the Open Carry with Training Act, signed into law today by Governor McMaster.  “It’s critical for South Carolina gun owners to understand the new law before carrying their weapon in public,” said SLED Chief Mark Keel.  The law has a 90-day implementation delay. Therefore, the law does not go […]

An Oconeean recently answered her telephone recently to a call that displayed the non-emergency line of the county sheriff’s office.  The sheriff’s office says this was a scam by someone pretending to be a deputy sheriff.  The caller warned the person called that she needed to pay money due to a warrant that had been issued for people who fail […]

Even before the Colonial Pipeline shutdown of last week, gas prices were expected to flirt with $3 dollars a gallon leading up to Memorial Day weekend.  The motor club AAA Carolinas predicts nearly nearly one-half million South Carolinians are expected to travel by car over the holiday weekend.  “Many Carolinians are so eager to travel, we don’t expect higher gas […]

The head of a small operation within the Oconee Business Center in Walhalla lost his life last week in a traffic accident on highway 11 in Greenville County.  His wife survived the accident. The death May 13 of Dana Todd, a Keowee Key resident, is being mourned locally—especially by Dave Eldridge of the Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation.  Eldridge counted the […]

According to South Carolina DHEC, new cases of COVID-19 on this afternoon’s report:  229.  Statewide, there was one new death.  Of 8,790 test results, the state positivity remained 3.5%.

A Clemson University researcher, James Morris, has received a four-year $1.77 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify compounds that interfere with or prevent a group of deadly parasites from getting the nutrients they need to survive.  The research could lead to better drugs to treat or even prevent three devastating diseases that sicken, disfigure and kill […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced today that it is partnering with South Carolina ETV (SCETV) and local community leaders to host a special live town hall event about COVID-19 vaccines Thursday, May 20 at 7 p.m.   Titled A Shot of Hope: COVID-19 Vaccine Community Town Hall, this televised conversation is an opportunity for South Carolinians […]

At this time of year, bears have emerged from hibernation and they are hungry, as a group of campers found over the weekend in Oconee County.  They called for help.  In this instance, however, there was no need to panic.  Bears usually want to avoid humans, as much as campers and other non-hunters want to avoid them.  Nevertheless, it pays […]

The calendar that Oconee public schools are following to conclude another year of public education is not the usual when it comes to the last days for classes.  This year’s calendar calls for students to remain in the classrooms for days after the May 29 graduation ceremonies for the three high schools.  Students in the rest of the high school […]