Category: News

Another Oconee County woman has gone missing. At a City Hall meeting last night, Walhalla Police Chief Sean Brinson announced the disappearance of Tammy Stubblefield, a 51-year old resident of Moore Avenue. The police quote Stubblefield’s daughter, Angel, as saying that her last contact with her mother was in late November. None of Tammy Stubblefield’s friends or relatives say they […]

Final approval of a solar farm project near Fair Play will have to wait, but now major details of the project confidential till now stand revealed. County attorney David Root asked the County Council on Tuesday to delay a third reading on a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Blue Ridge Solar LLC because the company representatives still held some of the paperwork […]

Two sitting members of the board of the Pioneer Rural Water District at Oakway are in line for new terms of office, without opposition.  Ronnie Williams and Eddie Grant were re-nominated during a meeting this afternoon at the district office.  Williams serves as the District Two member; Grant represents District 5.

If there’s a theme to the pattern of scamming attempts, it is that the scammer will try to play on your emotions, and Oconee Sheriff’s Office wants you to be wary. A caller claimed that a power customer needed to pay or see his power disconnected. He wanted the power customer to buy a pre-paid card and place money on […]

The number of those arrested for burglary at a former Westminster manufacturing plant has swelled to six men and women. The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has added 22-year old Pickens resident Leanna Shyann Green to a growing number of those accused of burglary at what used to be the Dunlop/Maxlfi plant on 123. Charges against Green are listed as second degree […]

Parents or guardians who wish to enroll their children in an Oconee public school outside their attendance zone may make application during an open enrollment period that started yesterday and will run until June 5. Applications are found on the district website under the Parents tab. If you are unable to complete the online request, please contact the school office […]

Commercially-zoned property in front of one Lake Keowee home development is disconcerting to some of the residents there, and one let her feelings be known during a meeting yesterday of the Oconee Planning Commission. Melinda Jenkins is a new resident of Craggmore Pointe near SC 130/the Stamp Creek Road. She and others in her neighborhood were attracted by the fact […]

Scott Parris and Sharon Hennes have been appointed by the board of the Oconee Joint Sewer Authority to determine billing needs and start talks with Pioneer Rural Water for the billing for retail wastewater collection and treatment service for Sewer South.

Eleven applications have been received by the Oconee Parks, Recreation and Tourism Commission for “ATAX” monies. The funds are generated by accommodations tax payments. Applications from a variety of organizations range from a low of $2,400 to a high of $20 thousand. The next meeting of the PRT commissioners will be noon Thursday at the Oconee Heritage Center. The public […]

Eleven applications have been received by the Oconee Parks, Recreation and Tourism Commission for “ATAX” monies.  The funds are generated by accommodations tax payments.  Applications from a variety of organizations range from a low of $2,400 to a high of $20 thousand.  The next meeting of the PRT commissioners will be noon Thursday at the Oconee Heritage Center.  The public […]