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If you are an adult wanting to brush up on your education, it’s time to register with Oconee Adult Education. Enrollment is open for GED, High School Diploma, and the Family Literacy Program. The Family Literacy Program offers free childcare for registered students. Classes begin Monday, August 5. Call 864/718-4812.
Read moreMauldin, SC– Mr. John (Jay) David Lyle, III (45) of Mauldin, SC passed away in his sleep Thursday, July 18, 2024. He was the son of John David Lyle, Jr. and Margaret Queen Hiser. He is survived by his parents and step-parents, Judy Lyle and Kenyon Hiser, along with many aunts, uncles, and cousins in the Walhalla area […]
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Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center now has six basketball goals on its newly constructed courts, and the thanks goes to a group of employees at the local BASF plant. Over two days last month, 14 volunteers from the BASF Veterans Employee team committed 60 hours to bring the project to life. The main installation took place June 14 with the […]
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An Oconee task force dedicated to combatting the opioid epidemic locally invites the general public this week for a discussion of how better to do its work. The task force has money to spend and Jon Holland, one of its members, says this week’s public forum is to discuss community needs as part of what’s called a gap analysis. The […]
Read moreSeneca, SC — Ovaline Patterson Hood, 87, of Walhalla, passed away on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at Lila Doyle Post Acute in Seneca. A native of Oconee County, SC, Mrs. Hood was the daughter of the late Tillman and Gertha Edney Patterson. She retired from Sangamo and was of the Baptist faith. Mrs. Hood in survived by her […]
Read moreAn arrest made in an Oconee jailhouse death that occurred March 29. The state police announce the arrest of a 26-year-old Walhalla man, Jordan Scott Tilson on the charge of voluntary manslaughter. The affidavit in the arrest warrant reads, “The defendant did, on or about 3-29-24, acting in the sudden heat of passion and without malice, expressed or implied, caused […]
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Prisma Health and United Healthcare (United) have reached a new multi-year agreement. This after, several months during which some United Healthcare insured changed doctors who accept UHC or simply paid more for care than they would have had they remained in-network. According to Prisma Health, the new agreement ensures that Prisma hospitals, physician practices and other health care services are […]
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A semi-trailer truck ran off SC 130 north of Salem, killing the driver. He was 61-year-old Osvaldo Perdomo of Homestead, Florida. Coroner Addis says the Kenworth tractor trailer truck driven by Perdomo overturned and went down an embankment off 130/the Whitewater Falls Road. The 1:50 pm Friday accident occurred near the Cg Roxane Crystal Geyser water plant and the Kenworth […]
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A 36-year-old Anderson man, Christopher Price, died in the hospital Thursday night, the victim of a two-vehicle accident that morning on the LaFrance Road near Pendleton, according to Coroner Greg Shore of Anderson County.
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Late at night Tuesday in rural southern Oconee, a deputy spotted a small car turn off SC 24/the West-Oak Highway and onto SC 59 without, he says, any tag lamps illuminating the license plate. The deputy followed the car which, eventually, turned into a driveway and was met by farm gate. The result of that traffic stop produced the following […]
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