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This may be Super Tuesday across the country. But, in Walhalla, it’s a special election day to fill a vacated seat on the six-member city council. The only ballot candidate is Keith Pace. Voting takes place 7 to 7 at the EMS/rescue squad building on S. Church Street.
Read moreSeneca, SC — Betty Jo Green Patterson, 80, wife of the late Alvin Patterson, of 202 Inland Drive, Anderson, passed away Sunday, March 1, 2020, at Oconee Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Davenport Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Evergreen Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from […]
Read moreSalem, SC – Robert Stephen Akroyd, 80, husband of Linda Quick Akroyd, of Salem, SC, passed away Sunday, March 1, 2020 at his home. Memorial service to be held at a later date. The family is at their respective homes. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Oconee Humane Society,1925 Sandifer Blvd, Seneca, SC 29678.
Read moreAn investment group is in hopes to see a new use for a former manufacturing plant near Seneca. Studio Investment Group, LLC held onto the former J-P Stevens plant in Utica by submitting the only bid at a public auction. The un-contested bid of $1.8 million submitted by Studio Investment’s attorney Robert Byrd of Charleston was received by the Oconee […]
Read moreA Pickens County man from the town of Six Mile has been arrested in a continuing investigation of a burglary at a former manufacturing plant near Westminster. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, the arrest of Kevin Wayne Ballard is the fourth arrest related to burglary at the former Dunlop golf products plant. Forty-three year old Ballard is charged with […]
Read moreCommissioners of Oconee Soil and Water Conservation recently attended a conference in Charleston that included state DNR and Natural Resource Service officials. A highlight was a tour of St. James Island. The South Carolina coast has a 90% oyster bed restoration rate, and the state is considered number one in restoring habitats to ensure oysters in the future. The local […]
Read moreThe field for seats on a state regulatory board, the Public Service Commission, widened with an extended application period that ended on Friday. A joint session of the South Carolina Legislature will fill PSC seats representing Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7. First, however, will come public hearings on the qualifications of the candidates. District Three includes the counties of […]
Read moreState Rep. Bill Sandifer of Seneca announces he will seek re-election to the State House of Representatives from District 2. Sandifer serves Oconee County in the General Assembly and is the Chairman of one of the six House Committees, the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee which guides policy on energy and commerce issues in the state. The committee recently passed […]
Read moreSeats are coming open this year on the board that sets policy for the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative. One of them is an Oconee County seat in District One. It’s the seat held by Len Talley, and Talley is offering for re-election. Blue Ridge will accept nominees for the seat during a District One membership meeting at 10 o’clock Monday […]
Read moreBernie Sanders’s 24% of the Oconee vote was a surprise to Chairman Steve Sperry of the Oconee Democratic Party. He had thought Sanders would have taken 20%. Tracking Saturday’s results, Sperry kept an eye on the results from a pair of county precincts where it was suspected Republicans would have cast ballots for Sanders, not because they want him to […]
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