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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$11 thousand lost in scams

Scams in which two Oconeeans were bilked out of a total of $11 thousand dollars are highlighted in this month’s                                                                                                                                                           scams update from the county sheriff’s office.  And what happened in each makes for a lesson for everyone to be on the guard against cheats.  An Oconeean lost about $6 thousand to a telephone scammer who impersonated an “Officer Sellers”.  […]

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Grant to pay for Prisma Health Oconee projects

A grant from the state Department of Health and Human Services includes funds for two Prisma Health Oconee projects at Seneca.  The grant amounts to $3.2 million and includes funds for the renovation of the Seneca Medical Associates building to allow for an additional two clinicians and funds to renovate Prisma Health Seneca Pediatrics to expand capacity from four to […]

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