Electric utility watching what’s happening on I-85

Electric-run vehicles are able to juice up at a recently-opened charging station operated by the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative at exit 4 on I-85 near the line between Oconee and Anderson counties.  Now operating there are 12 Tesla superchargers and one ChargePoint Express 250 fast charger.  Jim Lovinggood, Blue Ridge president/CEO, explains in the newest “South Carolina Living” magazine that, […]

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Truck driver charged with felony DUI with death

The driver of a pickup truck has been arrested as part of the state patrol’s investigation of two traffic fatalities last week in Pickens County.  Master Trooper David Jones announced charges of felony DUI with death and felony DUI with great bodily injury in the 123 accident November 2 near the Liberty exits.  Over the weekend the driver accused—Jose Martin […]

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Rural fire station meets challenges

In a year dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a rural Oconee fire station believes it has kept up with the challenges it faced.  The Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department covers parts of Oconee County on opposite sides of U-S 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor.  There, it experiences the push out of an expanding Clemson University enrollment and an assortment of student apartment homes […]

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Drowning after kayak overturns

The body of a 26-year old Pennsylvanian was recovered from Lake Hartwell around noon on Saturday, hours after a kayak flipped, and he failed to re-surface.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis ruled drowning in the death of Kellen Jerome Mackey of New Brighton near Pittsburgh.  The search scene was the Cartee Road in the Martin Creek part of the lake.  Around […]

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Pauline Carter

Westminster – Pauline Frances Canupp Carter, 84, wife of the late Clarence Barber Carter, passed away on Friday, November 5th, 2021 at Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital.   Pauline was born in Oconee County, and was the daughter of the late John Henry Canupp and Cadora Rosalen Englin Canupp.  Pauline retired from Janzten and Dunlop and was a member […]

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Missing Lake Hartwell kayaker

A kayaker unaccounted for overnight in Lake Hartwell in Oconee County remains the object of a search today in the vicinity of Cartee Road.  Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Management says search and rescuers were alerted at 2:30 this morning that one person aboard a kayak fell into the water….and did not re-surface.  Local personnel are being assisted by officers […]

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Pickens County traffic deaths identified

A great grandmother and a great grandson were the fatal victims of a Tuesday traffic accident on 123 in Pickens County.  The accident was reported near the Liberty exits.  Coroner Kandy Kelley says Gladys Holbrooks, 70 years old, and Cameron Durham, six years old, both of Pickens, died at the scene of blunt force trauma.  Holbrooks drove a Ford Fiesta […]

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Ruth Louise Roach Brewer

Seneca – Ruth Louise Roach Brewer, 86, wife of the late John Relton Brewer, passed away Thursday, November 4th, 2021 at Prisma Health – Cottingham Hospice House.   Born in Oconee County, Ruth was the daughter of the late James Broadus “JB” Roach and Essie Ellenburg Roach.  Ruth was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith.  Ruth enjoyed family […]

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30-year old fire truck to be replaced at Keowee Key

A new, $1.2 million fire truck for the fire department based at Keowee Key may now be ordered, as the county fathers today approved the award for purchase to a broker in Easley.  Preceding council’s approval was a general obligation bond issue to cover the purchase. Chief Brandon Shirley of the Keowee Fire Department, following this morning’s special council meeting, […]

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