Wagner may not retire “retire”

David Wagner of Anderson County has racked up 34 years in the business of prosecuting criminal court defendants.  He admits that, at the age of 60, his decision this year to retire as 10th Circuit Solicitor in Oconee and Anderson isn’t easy, but it’s the right decision for him, especially to be able to find more time to spend with […]

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Ramirez named new Seneca High principal

From Seneca to Greenville goes a high school principal.  Oconee School District has named Ashley Ramirez as the replacement for Seneca High principal Dylan Hudson.  District officials say Hudson is leaving Seneca to be the new principal at Greenville High School.  In his place at Seneca comes former Seneca High math teacher Ramirez.  Currently, she’s an assistant principal at Walhalla […]

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Dorothy Rogers Prater

Seneca, SC — Dorothy Rogers Prater, 82, wife of Donald Harold Prater, of Seneca, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2024, at Oconee Memorial Hospital.   A native of Seneca, SC, Mrs. Prater was the daughter of the late Thomas Garland and Mary Naomi Hooper Rogers. She was a member of Crossroads Baptist Church.   In addition to her husband, Mrs. […]

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Popular sentiment won’t decide Keowee River project

A two-hour meeting moved Oconee Planning Commission closer to changes in standards that developers must follow.  For a second time this month, the planning commissioners’ meeting was dominated by worries for the potential of a large commercial/residential project on SC 130.  At the outset last night, Chairman Mike Johnson cautioned those audience members opposed to what’s called Keowee River, a […]

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Prestigious award for a Clemson professor

A Clemson faculty member will extend a career-long research project to an education institution in Great Britain.  Matt Rhodes-Purdy, assistant professor in the Clemson Department of Political Science, earned a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to study the challenges and successes of contemporary-era democracies in Manchester, England.  He will join the University of Manchester in 2025 for the spring and summer […]

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13-year prison sentence handed down

A 51-year-old woman, co-defendant in an Oconee drug case investigation, received a 13-year prison sentence today in the General Sessions Court at Walhalla.  Tamatha Franklin Collins pleaded guilty to trafficking in methamphetamine.  Collins was arrested in 2019.  Assistant Solicitor Beth Blundy said Collins, a motorist, was discovered in the possession of 106 grams of methamphetamine in the middle of the […]

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Opening day filers stake their claims

The opening hours of candidate qualifying saw a pair of races become official.  Beth Blundy of Oconee County and Micah Black of Anderson County qualified for the June primary as candidates for 10th Circuit Solicitor.  And Matthew Durham, the incumbent, and newcomer India Lancaster, are paired against each other as the result of their filings on Saturday afternoon for Seat […]

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