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Seneca – Patricia Arnold Meier, 86, wife of the late Louis Orville Meier Sr., passed away on Monday, April 15, 2024, at The Residences at Park Place. Born September 1st, 1937, in Washington, DC, Pat was the daughter of the late Joshua Leslie and Anna Marjory Arnold. Patricia was a librarian at West Point and a member of St. […]
Read moreSeneca – Jerry William Blakely, 73, husband of Maxine Cooper Blakely, passed away on April 14th, 2024, at his residence surrounded by his loving family. Born May 29th, 1950, in Oconee County, South Carolina, Jerry was the son of William Henry and Sarah Gibson Blakely. Jerry was retired from AT&T as an electronic technician with 37 years of […]
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A ribbon cut symbolically opened the new Seneca Middle School on the Wells Highway, to be ready in August for the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students now housed in an old building on WS 4th Street. It’s likely an understatement to say that those who toured the new school are enthralled by what the public dollar has provided. Credit […]
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Administrators warned Oconee school trustees that, unless teacher pay is raised, the teacher shortage will only worsen. Of two options, the trustees gave first reading last night to a new spending request that’ll generate $55.6 million in local support. The local support is dependent on the County Council which tonight will see the district’s preliminary budget numbers. The presentations last […]
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General Sessions Judge Scott Sprouse began qualifying the jury this morning for the start of an Oconee Courthouse trial. Arrested by the sheriff’s office in April last year, William David Gunn faces the following charges burglary first degree, resisting arrest, malicious injury to property, and possession of tools capable of being used in a crime. From the pool of jurors, […]
Read moreSeneca, SC — Lois Werner Douberley, 97, wife of the late Sam Douberley, of Seneca, passed away on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at St. Francis Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. Born in Miami, FL., Mrs. Douberley was the daughter of the late Charles and Marie Grafe Werner. She retired as a county planning administrator and was a member of […]
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BabyRead is a free, pre-literacy program in Oconee County. Readers such as Katie Conlin encourage and support parents and caregivers to read to their children every day. Conlin describes the benefits of public service programs to society and the inner satisfaction that she and other readers gain from this volunteer activity. Conlin will be the guest on this weekend’s “Community […]
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Pickens County receives a new director of DSS this week. In a long career in social services, Cynthia Wolthuis has experience in the tri-counties including Oconee County work as an investigations’ leader and team coordinator. She starts her new duties Wednesday with the Pickens County DSS. In a statement, she said, “I am a proponent of the new initiatives DSS […]
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“Hub” opponent Catherine Watt hopes to head off final approval tonight for the controversial residential-commercial project in Clemson. Watt says, “I will be making a motion to send the proposal back to Planning Commission for 4 weeks so we can do one last evaluation based on what we’ve learned over the past two months. Will see who agrees. We owe […]
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Inside the cafetorium of the new Seneca Middle School, about 200 people heard Oconee’s economic development recruiter predict announcements of new investments in the county are not far away. Jamie Gilbert of Oconee Economic Alliance says three pending announcements go before the county council this week and the county is one of four finalists for a project, the decision on […]
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