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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help to identify a subject who led deputies on a pursuit Tuesday night. The subject was operating a motorcycle that matched the body style of a motorcycle reported stolen Monday morning in the Timberlake One Circle area of Oconee County, which is located near Townville. The deputy observed the driver of […]
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A fallen tree had part of an intersection blocked at the 5 o’clock hour this morning in Seneca. Two police cars were at the scene: E. Main and Stribling streets. The tree down had access blocked to one side of Stribling.
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“Why do we want to push that over to Anderson?” The question was asked Tuesday night by Oconee County resident Mickey Haney. He was questioning why September 12, for a 60 to 90-day period, was chosen as the start of the temporary closing of the runway at the Oconee Regional Airport. The college football season will have been two weeks […]
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The Blood Connection (TBC), the Upstate’s non-profit community blood center, announces the construction of a state-of-the-art donation center in Anderson, South Carolina – designed to meet the continued critical need for local blood donations. This center will be the sixth TBC donation center in the Upstate. TBC is the sole blood provider for AnMed Health and has been since the […]
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The Oconee hamlet of Mountain Rest normally a quiet place. Today, however, two search warrants were executed by the county sheriff’s office – one search warrant on the Bauknight Road and the other on Verner Mill Road. Only limited information is being given. Sheriff Crenshaw says, “The search warrants are not related to any current death investigation in the area […]
Read moreA Salem man is organizing a new trip to the flooded regions of Eastern Kentucky and is welcoming additional donations from members of the public. Those relief items may be dropped off at the Salem Park Avenue home of Myrtle and Thurmond Coward, directly across from Town Hall. This time Mr. Coward has been requested to drive a truck to […]
Read moreEarly today near Townville a motorcyclist apparently drove his chopper off a boat ramp into Lake Hartwell. Info we’ve received from one of the public safety responders is that the motorcycle has been pulled out the lake at the Timberlake boat ramp. No sign of anyone around that motorcycle.
Read moreIowa’s cornfields may seem an odd place to spend part of your summer vacation. Not for Chris Eleazer. The executive director of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority, his son, Markham, and Mr. Eleazer’s roommate from college scored tickets for last week’s “Field of Dreams” game in Dyersville, Iowa. The farm and its cornfields were the setting for the Field […]
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The building that once was the pride of Oconee County government sits idle and deteriorating. And every time Julian Davis drives into Walhalla he feels the compunction to do something. So, the county council committee that Davis chairs put their heads together yesterday and recommended demolition, at least part of the building of the former Oconee County courthouse abandoned 20 […]
Read moreWestminster- Betty Lou Smith, 77, passed away on Monday, August 15th, 2022. Born in Oconee County, Betty was the daughter of the late Albert and Louise Sullivan Smith. Betty worked 48 ½ years at Kendall-Covidien. She loved motorcycles, had a great love for animals, but most of all she loved her family. Betty was a member of Pleasant Hill […]
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