A new school year gets underway

Following a new system of staggered starts, the 2017-18 school year opens today in Oconee County.  Motorists are reminded that those yellow school buses are back on the roads today and the importance of obeying laws covering passing and stopping for a bus.  Protection of the students, the teachers, and other school workers is chief on the minds at the Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says, “We have School Resource Officers at every high school in the county and at West-Oak Middle School and we have three SRO’s who work in the elementary schools in Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster areas….”  According to Crenshaw, the commitment to protect other schools in the county, unaffiliated with the public schools, is just the same and as important.