Teenager is missing

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a missing 16 year old.   16 year old Madison Jade Elgin was last seen wearing a light blue cut-off t-shirt, black shorts and socks and light blue shoes.   A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division met with a family member of Madison’s late this morning.  According […]

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Orchard Park’s new principal

Oconee native and Walhalla High graduate Kerri King is the new principal at Westminster’s Orchard Park Elementary School.  She started her career as a 4th-grade teacher at Oakway Intermediate School, who began work at Orchard Park in 2016 as a reading coach and later became assistant principal.  Dr. Thorsland, district superintendent, says King’s hiring is an example of the district […]

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Investigator to take to the stand

Deputy Solicitor Alderman says David McMahan, who was an investigator for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, will be called to testify during day two of SC. v. Mack Gaines.  A Seneca resident, Gaines is charged with abuse or neglect resulting in death — vulnerable adult.  He’s the son of the victim, Alma Louise Gaines, who died in early 2018.  Yesterday the […]

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Death of vulnerable adult trial

The state’s case against Mack Adam Gaines is set for a 2 o’clock start this afternoon in Oconee General Sessions Court.  At 58 years old in 2018, Games was arrested and charged with abuse of neglect resulting in the death of a vulnerable adult.  Authorities investigated the death of Alma Louise Gaines, 92, and decided the manner of death was […]

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Trout threatened by disease found in two Upstate counties

The presence of disease found in four streams in Pickens and Greenville counties has the state DNR worried that the whirling disease pathogen could cause 90% or greater mortality of young rainbow trout and have serious impacts to wild and hatchery trout populations.  The disease is caused by the microscopic parasite Myxobulus cerebralis, which damages cartilage and skeletal issue in […]

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