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To eliminate confusion, Oconee school trustees have given a new name to a Bountyland school building that has been around since the middle part of the last century. The Hamilton Career Center in Bountyland, starting with next school year, shall be known as the “Bountyland Education Campus.” A new career center, already named for retired educator Fred Hamilton, is in […]
Read moreWalhalla, SC — Nancy Lee Baker Rogers, 71, wife of the late Edward Sevier Rogers, of 698 Pickett Post Road, Walhalla, passed away Sunday, May 10, 2020, at Cottingham Hospice House. A native of Portland, Maine, Mrs. Rogers was the daughter of the late James Frank and Ruth Baker. She loved her family more than life itself and loved singing. […]
Read moreAnderson- Eleanor “Ellie” Mae Blackwell Johnson, 53, of 1203 Old Webb Road, wife of William Junior Johnson, passed away May 10th, 2020, at An-Med Medical Center. Born in Seneca, SC, she was the daughter of late Bert and Bessie Bates Blackwell. Ellie was a homemaker and a member of Assembly of God of Honea Path Ellie is survived by her […]
Read moreA one-vehicle accident around 4 pm yesterday in Long Creek took the life of a Georgia man. He was 62-year old Tony O. Smith of Blue Ridge, Georgia. State trooper Gary Miller said a 2017 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck hit guardrail and went off the right side of the highway and overturned. At the time, the truck was east bound. […]
Read moreGovernor McMaster late this afternoon announced that, effective Monday, May 18, South Carolina will lift restrictions further and allow businesses involved in close contact with customers will be allowed to go back into operations. The lifting also applies to certain recreation and athletic facilities. The close contact businesses that will be allowed to return next week include barbers, hair salons, […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 140 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 15 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 7,792 and those who have died to 346. Eleven of those deaths occurred in elderly individuals in Charleston (1), Clarendon (1), […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced that it has identified more than 1,800 contact tracers to support the state’s ongoing COVID-19 response efforts. “With increased testing there will be an increase in the number of positive cases reported,” said Dr. Linda Bell, South Carolina State Epidemiologist. “This means we will need to increase the […]
Read morePublic safety responders are on their way to what appears to be a serious accident in Long Creek. According to passersby, it looks like a car may have gone thru guardrail and flipped over. This accident was reported shortly after 4 o’clock this afternoon.
Read moreA handful of South Carolina women, including an Oconeean, are hoping the voters will nominate them next month to hold an office, rarely occupied by members of their gender. It’s believed that no woman has ever been elected to the office of county sheriff in South Carolina, although some women have temporarily occupied the office. The executive director of the […]
Read morePartisan disagreements leave uncertain what form a new stimulus package might take from Washington–whether there will be more relief checks or tax cuts, or both. But South Carolina Republican Tim Scott says he and at least two Democratic colleagues are behind a proposal to ensure more new parents quickly receive the additional $500 a child benefit from the CARES Act. […]
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