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After more than six months, Lucas Watts will return to his Oconee home. The county deputy, seriously wounded in an officer-involved shooting November 16, comes home tomorrow. His boss, Sheriff Mike Crenshaw and others are excited. According to Crenshaw, the tentative plan is for Watts to be discharged from his out of state re-hab facility sometime early tomorrow afternoon and […]
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Joshua Harrison will leave the principal’s job at Fair-Oak Elementary to move to Ravenel Elementary in the same capacity. Oconee School District announces the move of Harrison, as the result of last night’s meeting of the county trustees. In another move of transition, Sarah Melton will leave her position as special education coordinator at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary School to […]
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A Clemson University student from Central, Annika DeVol, is one of five Clemson students recognized recently with a STEM-focused graduate research fellowship. The fellowships are awarded each year through the National Science Foundation. DeVol can look forward to a three-year stipend of $37 thousand and a $16 thousand cost-of-education allowance. She is a materials science and engineering major with a […]
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Oconee School District is announcing plans to again take part in the Summer Rural Meal Program, to offer free pickup of meals for children 18 and under and those with special needs under 21. It will run May 28 through July 26 and the one way to guarantee a meal package is to pre-order. Jennifer Dodd, spokeswoman for the public […]
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A regulatory board in Seneca welcomed the ambitious plans of an Atlanta developer to convert a dilapidated former textile property into a multi-housing complex inside an economic opportunity zone adjoining the Utica Community. This was accomplished on two votes last night by the city planning commission: one to annex what used to be a J-P Stevens plant and the second […]
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One hour later yesterday a section of east bound 123 traffic on the Seneca-Clemson Corridor remained in single file in the vicinity of a serious car accident near the Wells Highway. A small white car was relegated to the grass median with heavy damage front and back. An ambulance was seen at the accident location around 5:30 pm.
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The bodies of two Pickens County teenagers have been recovered from Lake Hartwell near Central. The coroner’s office says the deaths of Zakaria Chaar, 15, of Central and Ryan Alnasser, 16, of Clemson are under investigation as drownings. The death scene was Pike Road and Six Mile Highway, Central.
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The opening of a new Seneca restaurant — and its offer of free coffee for the first 100 customers — has brought out the crowds this morning. Parking is at a premium this morning in and around the new Dunkin Donuts on the 123 Bypass.
Read moreSENECA-Reverend John B. Compton, Jr., born to and preceded in death by his father, John B. Sr. and mother, Annie Mae Smith Compton, of Oconee County, SC, was welcomed into this world on April 30, 1934. John was their only child and, led by the example of his father’s faith, answered the call to the ministry at the young […]
Read moreWestminster – David Luke Thomas, 74, husband of Deborah Denise Thomas, passed away on Sunday, May 19th, 2024, at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born February 10th, 1950, in Pickens, South Carolina, David was the son of the late Perry and Nellie Pitts Thomas. David was a United States Army Veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. He later […]
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