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Caps and gowns will be worn tomorrow in Oconee’s three high school stadiums. The football fields are the settings for the 2021 graduations for the senior classes of Seneca, Walhalla, and West-Oak. In all, 620 seniors will say farewell to their schools. Walhalla has the largest graduating class, 256; next is Seneca with 200; and West-Oak with 164. Of the […]
Read moreOconee and Pickens counties enjoy some of the lowest unemployment rates in South Carolina, with adjoining Anderson County not much higher. The April jobless percentages for Oconee County of 3.7% and Pickens County at 3.8% come at a time when many employers continue to scour the ranks of job seekers to fill necessary service positions to meet customer demand. Anderson […]
Read moreAll Oconee County Solid Waste facilities will be closed Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day. Offices of the city of Seneca and its Light and Water Plant will be closed Monday. For the convenience of utility bill payers, the night deposit is open 24 hours. If you have a utility emergency, call 885-2723.
Read moreSenator Lindsey Graham met with loves ones of fallen Capitol policeman Brian Sicknick, and late last night the Senate was expected to vote on whether to create a national commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Despite in-person pleas from Sicknick’s mother and his girlfriend and others, Graham and other Senate Republicans indicate they’ll block the idea […]
Read moreA spectacle that proves popular to the public returns next week at the Hartwell Dam near Hartwell, Georgia and Anderson, South Carolina. Safety officials will test the spillway gates at the Hartwell Dam starting at 9:30 Thursday morning, June 3. The test is required to ensure the gates work properly in the event that high water events require an emergency […]
Read moreSeneca – Wallace Lee Spoon, 86, husband of the late Esther Lee Freeman Spoon, passed away Thursday, May 27th, 2021 at his residence. Born in Westminster, he was the son of the Lee Spoon and Effie Lee Sullivan Spoon. Wallace retired from the textile industry, a member of the Masonic Lodge #92, a Hejaz Shriner, a member of the […]
Read moreIn one 24-hour period, Oconee went from not one single new case of COVID-19 to seven cases. The seven are in the DHEC report this afternoon that counted cases for the day that ended at 11:59 Tuesday night. Statewide, there were 208 cases and two deaths. Of 8,859 test results, the South Carolina positivity: 3.2%.
Read moreCity of Walhalla announces that garbage pick ups normally scheduled this Monday instead will be Tuesday and Wednesday next week. The Public Works Department requests that Monday customers have their roll carts out by 7 o’clock Tuesday morning for pickup either Tuesday or Wednesday. All other routes should remain on schedule.
Read moreWestminster – Michael “PA” Wayne Baker, 72, husband of, Henrietta Stone Baker, passed away Wednesday, May 26th, 2021 at Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born in Oconee County, he was the son of the late Vardman Theo Baker and Lila Lawing Remmers. Pa was a lifetime resident of Westminster, where he retired from Beacon Manufacturing. He was a deacon and […]
Read moreWestminster – Jimmy Roscoe Thrift, 77, passed away on Wednesday, May 26th, 2021 at Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born in Oconee County, he was the son of the late James Roscoe Thrift and June Rogers Thrift. Jimmy attended Gardner Webb University and was one of the owners of Thrift Lumber Company, and was a logger. Jimmy is survived […]
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