73 kids can look forward to new bikes

A successful fund drive by corporate and employees of Lift Technologies raised enough money this year to guarantee new bicycles for disadvantaged youth in Oconee County.  Seventy-three bicycles were delivered Saturday to the Toys for Tots program at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center. Stephanie Jackson, who is a Senior Design Engineer at Lift Tek, collects money from Lift Tek employees […]

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$40-$60 hour jobs is county leader’s goal

Matthew Durham is talking a revival for industrial growth in Oconee County.  The county council chairman says the goal is modern manufacturing and high-tech industries with jobs that pay between $40 and $60 an hour.  In a statement, Durham expresses the belief that Sewer South, thru its infrastructure for the I-85 corridor, will be essential to industrial development.  The fact […]

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Legal business tops city council agenda

The start of tomorrow’s December meeting of the Westminster City Council will be preceded by a scheduled one-hour closed-door meeting to address legal matters involving the city’s electric power supplier.  The open part of the meeting with invocation and pledge of allegiance is set for 6 o’clock.  During the open session, the council is to consider a motion to authorize […]

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Allen Pickens

Westminster – Robert Allen Pickens, 73, husband of Barbara Barnes Pickens, passed away Friday, December 8th, 2023 at his residence surrounded by his loving family and friends.   Born November 23rd, 1950, in Seneca, South Carolina, he was the son of the late Robert Arnold and Marie Cobb Pickens. Allen was the owner and operator of Pickens Heating and Air […]

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Janice Harris

Westminster, SC — Janice Lucille Johns Harris, 80, wife of the late Carzell Harris, of Westminster, SC, passed away on Saturday, December 9, 2023, at her home.   A native of Oconee County, SC, Mrs. Harris was the daughter of the late Grady and Josephine Nixon Johns. She loved to fish, play bingo, throw horseshoes, and was an avid Atlanta […]

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Freida Phipps

  Seneca – Freida Marie Phipps, 95, wife of the late John Brown Lee Phipps, passed away on Sunday, December 10, 2023 at Keowee Place in Seneca.   Born October 23rd, 1928, in Lafeyette, New Jersey, Freida was the daughter of the late Wilber H. and Flossie Mae Reed Price. Freida worked at the Sparta High School in New Jersey […]

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