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The South Carolina Sheriffs Association is asking everyone to be cautious when receiving phone calls requesting donations or information on behalf of the Sheriffs’ Association. The association executive director, Jarrod Bruder, said, “Our office has been inundated with phone calls…from individuals who believe they are returning a missed phone call. Some callers are being told via a recorded message that […]

For a period of hours yesterday morning and afternoon, a phone company outage prevented 9-1-1 calls from being received by the Oconee E-911/Communications Center at the Law Enforcement Center. Until service was restored by mid afternoon, the 9-1-1 center was able to accommodate only calls made from landline phones. It’s believed that no major emergencies were missed during the outage.

In about 90 minutes yesterday, an Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority committee cut $181 thousand from the contractor’s budget to renovate the administrative and operations facilities of the wastewater treatment plant at Seneca. At meeting’s end, Westminster representative Brian Ramey said the cuts were “still quite shy” of what Westminster and Walhalla representatives would be comfortable with. The committee yesterday […]

Three inmates from the South Carolina Department of Corrections have arrived at the Oconee Detention Center, and Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says they will be placed on work details. Crenshaw says, “Currently evaluating them to determine job assignment.” Oconee County has employed state labor in the past, but these three are the first since the start of a program called “Life […]

The city of Clemson and the Pumped Customers of the Anderson Regional Joint Water System have received word of a water main break at the Clemson Booster Pumped Station near U-S 76 and I-85 in Anderson. There is one pump feeding the city of Clemson, Clemson University, the Town of Pendleton, and Sandy Springs Water District. According to the city, […]

The success of Oconee’s business incubator in Walhalla could lead to the establishment of a second incubator elsewhere in the county. A committee recommendation to open a second incubator for start-up businesses is being placed on the agenda for the next meeting of County Council December 18. Dave Eldridge, coordinator for the Oconee Business Center at Walhalla’s Brown Square, says […]

The snow and freezing rain forecast to reach Oconee County by Saturday means there will be no Christmas parade this year in the town of West Union. The West Union parade had been scheduled for Saturday, but Mayor Linda Oliver has announced the parade has been called off.

According to a forecast from the South Carolina DNR, moisture infiltrates over South Carolina as plain, cold rain late on Friday. We should prepare for a day-long soggy rainfest Saturday. After sunset Saturday, rain changes to snow starting along the North Carolina-South Carolina border in Oconee, Pickens, and Greenville counties. Snow, heavy at times, migrates south and east along the […]

The first Friday of December is South Carolina’s designated Arbor Day. And the city of Clemson will celebrate the day tomorrow with an event at the Ashley Dearing Park on Berkeley Road. The city Parks and Recreation Department invites the public at 3 o’clock for a short program that will include tree planting, light refreshments, and a tree giveaway. Several […]

Senator Lindsey Graham has joined a bi-partisan group in the Senate to introduce a resolution directed toward the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. According to Graham’s office, the resolution seeks to hold accountable the Crown Prince for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the blockade of Qatar, the jailing of political dissidents in Saudi Arabia, the use of […]