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Amtrak has a vision for increased rail service across the country, but its spokeswoman says it’s too early to say how new routes and improved corridors might impact the line running through Oconee County. The possibilities have some people wondering if there might be a new, high-speed line to parallel the existing track from Clemson through Oconee and into Stephens […]
Read moreOconee County fathers are primed to re-assign the holder of their broadband network, but first there’s the matter of legal advice to be given tonight in executive session. Reserved for part of tonight’s closed session of the county council is the assignment of One Tone Telecom’s network interests to the newly formed Upcountry Fiber, a subsidiary of the Blue Ridge […]
Read moreSeneca- Eldridge Clinton “Pete” Sluder,91, husband of Jacquelyn Esther Graham Sluder, passed away May 28th, 2021 at Keowee Place. Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, he was the son of the late Granville and Pearlie Cleo Morton Sluder. Pete was a United States Army Veteran having served in Germany post World War II, and worked in the textile industry […]
Read moreWalhalla- Edna Earl White Freeman, 84, wife of the late Willie “Jack” Jackson Freeman Sr., passed away May 28th, 2021 at home, surrounded by her loving family. Named after Edna Earl, the heroine in Augusta Jane Evans’s 1866 novel, St. Elmo, Edna Earl White Freeman was born in Tamassee, South Carolina. She was the daughter of the late John […]
Read moreWestminster- Dora “Jeanie” Elloise Marcengill, 73, of 124 Blackjack Road, passed away May 28th, 2021 Pruitt Health Care of Toccoa. Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the Leonard Burt Marcengill and Ethel Timms Marcengill. Jeanie was a beautiful person who loved and cared for everyone that she came in contact with. Jeanie is […]
Read moreThursday and Friday COVID-19 numbers are the latest available from South Carolina DHEC. For both days, the positivity of test results show a percentage in the 2% range for the state. For the report issued Sunday that reflected Friday numbers, the state health agency confirmed 159 new cases, six of them in Oconee County. There were an additional five deaths, […]
Read moreAn early Memorial Day head-on traffic accident in Belton took the life of a 27-year old Spartanburg man. Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore says Derrick Denzel Mack Mohrmann was killed around 2:15 yesterday morning on highway 29 north. Investigation reveals Mohrmann was the driver of a car that collided with a Jeep driven by a Taylors man. The responding fire […]
Read moreUnexplained injuries suffered by an Oconee County inmate are to be investigated by the state police. At the request of Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division will make an independent assessment, a standard procedure even though, in this case, according to Capt. Jeremy Chapman, no Oconee detention officers were involved. A call button to a cell […]
Read moreClifton Edward “Ed” Watkins, Sr., 89, husband of Betty Land Watkins, passed away Tuesday, January 5, 2021, at Oconee Memorial Hospital, Seneca, SC. Preceding him in death, daughter, Kay Watkins Bindrim, 54, wife of Thomas “Tommy” Arthur Bindrim, passed away on December 22, 2020, at her home in Rocky Mount, NC. A celebration of their lives and inurnment […]
Read moreA rural Oconee County resident has been arrested and charged in three warrants alleging sex crimes. Law enforcement records identify the arrested man as Augustino Cusimano. Sixty-five year old Cusimano is accused in two of the warrants as having in the third degree sexually exploited a minor by unlawfully possessing material that contained “a visual representation of a minor engaging […]
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