Bridge closed near Seneca
SC DOT announces a bridge near Seneca is closed for repairs. Traffic is being detoured to avoid the Radisson Road above the Coneross Creek.
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SC DOT announces a bridge near Seneca is closed for repairs. Traffic is being detoured to avoid the Radisson Road above the Coneross Creek.
Read moreA 16-year-old boy died in a one-car accident last evening on SC 187/the Wild Hog Road in Anderson County. Chief Deputy Coroner Don McCown said the victim, Kveon M. Willis of Royston, Georgia, was a student-athlete at Madison County High School in Danielsville, Georgia. McCown reported that the investigation shows Kveon was an unrestrained front-seat passenger in a Honda headed […]
Read moreThe Allen Green marker was unveiled in a Saturday afternoon ceremony in Walhalla. The marker, depicting an unsavory episode in long-ago Oconee County race relations, takes up a corner position on the grounds of the Oconee Courthouse. The spot is maybe 50 yards from where a mob of white people overpowered the sheriff and his one deputy in 1930 and […]
Read moreWestminster, SC – Jack Eugene Matheson, 75, husband of Joan Marie Cox Matheson, of Westminster, passed away Friday, April 28, 2023, at his home. A native of Oconee County, Mr. Matheson was the son of the late Harold Melvin and Aileen Sanders Matheson. He was formerly employed by C+T Backhoe and Dozer Service and was a Vietnam veteran in […]
Read moreAn Oconee jury returned verdicts early this afternoon in favor of the plaintiff, settling a week-long civil trial in the Common Pleas Court at Walhalla. For breach of contract, the jury granted plaintiff 4105 Liberty Highway $850 thousand in actual damages and $400 thousand in punitive damages. The damages are assessed against defendant Redland Properties. For the claim of negligence, […]
Read moreA new historic marker has gone up in the vicinity of the Oconee Courthouse. Sources are saying it’s a marker at S. Tugaloo and Short streets to remember Allen Green, a prisoner killed at the hands of an angry mob nearly 100 years ago. Covered now, the marker, it is said, is to be unveiled AT 3 pm tomorrow by […]
Read moreA proposed budget to operate Westminster city government in 2023-24 is ready for the first of two required readings by the city council. First reading planned for Tuesday, May 9. For all purposes, it is proposed, the city expenses approach $28.5 million. “Most notably,” says city administrator Kevin Bronson, is a proposed reduction in the City’s millage rate of 3.5 […]
Read moreTwo cars traveling highway 28, the Blue Ridge Boulevard, made contact this morning, but the occupants avoided injury. One car wound up in the median; the second crossed the opposite lanes of traffic and wound up in a ditch. It happened just south of the West Union Road turn near the Poplar Springs Bridge. A wrecker was required to remove […]
Read moreThe occupant of a southern Oconee County home lost the premises in a fire around 10 o’clock yesterday morning. One adult lived in the Fisher’s Cove Road home near the Feltman Road, according to Larry Wilkerson, chief of the Fair Play Fire Department.
Read moreA crowd of an anticipated 110 Oconee Republicans made their way to the Lighthouse Event Center on Lake Keowee. The April meeting of Oconee County Republican Men featured a salmon main course and a speaker’s dais of five members of the one-year-old South Carolina Freedom Caucus. It’s a group of conservative state representatives who are out to shake up the […]
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