Category: News

Ahead for Walhalla voters this year are two elections, including the special election next month.  On April 13 city voters are to fill a council term that has only months remaining.  The ballot candidates are Gwen Owens and Christy Marlow.  Whoever wins that election will be faced with whether to run for a full, four-year term in November.  The November […]

An e-library card is available for Oconee high age students, 14-17, and requires no parent or guardian signature.  Advantage of the card is that e-books and audio books and other such materials do not run up fines.  A student who obtains such a card has the later option of converting the card to one that offers full privileges.  Just like […]

The death of an Oconee County resident on Monday is considered by DHEC to have been a probable COVID-19 case, according to the state health agency report issued this afternoon. In the latest 24-hour period, there were 819 new virus cases across the state, including 18 in Oconee.  There were 38 new deaths reported in South Carolina.  Of 21,020 total […]

Senator Tim Scott is out with a video in which he lays out his opposition to Xavier Becerra to be the next U-S health secretary. President Biden’s nominee has come under questions about his objectives, and South Carolina Republican Scott accuses Becerra, the California attorney general, of attacking the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners and pushing policies that undermine […]

The largest animal ever to have made its home in the Oconee County shelter near Seneca is to get a new home thru a New York state-based rescue group.  Farewells will be made today for “Mack”, a two-year old resident of the Oconee Animal Shelter on the Sandifer Boulevard.  Mack thinks he is a dog, but he’s 1-thousand-plus pound Jersey […]

Threatened and endangered plant species, along with fuels reduction, are the reasons for today’s U-S Forest Service prescribed 650-acre burn in Oconee County, of the Cedar Creek and Rich Mountain roads.  The expectations are that smoke might be visible from a distance, but the impacts will be limited because of good dispersion.

Monies are to be set aside to pay to I-85 corridor property owners for their consent as the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority embarks on the project to extend piped sewer to interstate highway.  Those property owners will be asked to surrender easements to allow the county to build the necessary infrastructure that, it’s hoped, will open the possibilities for […]

Winds often blow in March.  The month also can foretell temperatures warm enough for the area’s road pavers to kick into gear.  The sight of road crews at work to smooth out part of SC 11 in front of the Davenport Funeral Home this week is a sign that motorists and the public should know that, in the next few […]

    The smell of smoke in the air this morning in the Bountyland Community near Seneca.  Just after 8 last night, fire was reported in one of the units at the Gail Court apartments, SC 188/the Keowee School Road. An ambulance was sent to the fire scene to check out one possible patient.    

583 new cases across the state; 7 in Oconee. 18 new deaths statewide.  One of the 18 is a middle-aged Oconeean who died February 27. Of 9,277 test results received, the South Carolina positivity was 9.6%.