Thursday’s South Carolina (and Oconee) COVID numbers
New confirmed cases of COVID-19: 856. Eight are Oconee residents. Six deaths were documented statewide. Of 18,794 test results, the positivity was 6.3%.
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New confirmed cases of COVID-19: 856. Eight are Oconee residents. Six deaths were documented statewide. Of 18,794 test results, the positivity was 6.3%.
Read moreIn South Carolina, if you turn on your windshield wipers, you are to be sure that your vehicle’s headlights are also on. That’s the law, according to the state patrol and the motor club AAA Carolinas. Yet, as late as this week, members of one Oconee County body debated whether, in fact, there is such a law requiring the display […]
Read moreSenator Tim Scott is making a commitment this morning for the country to meet the health care needs of older Americans during COVID-19. The setting for the South Carolina Republican is a Washington hearing conducted by the Senate Special Committee on Aging, on which Scott serves as ranking member. The committee today is to focus on health care needs for […]
Read morePrisma Health says a successful surgical procedure, the first of its kind in the state, has implanted a diaphragm pacer into a patient who experienced a life-changing spinal cord injury. The injury occurred in an automobile accident, but Prisma Health says the patient has been discharged and is recovering at home. He was identified as Tevin Johnson, a Sumter native […]
Read moreOconee County received a feeler from a company representative inquiring as to whether the county had adopted something called the “Bailey bill.” County Council members learned from Annie Caggiano what this bill can do during a committee meeting, Caggiano, president of the Oconee Economic Alliance, remarked that it was a developer making the inquiry. On Tuesday, Caggiano told the county’s […]
Read moreA make-up meeting to allow Oconee County Republicans to re-organize will take place at the end of next week, and all registered precinct residents are welcome to participate in the process. The meeting will be 10 o’clock Saturday morning, March 27 at Seneca’s Gignilliat Community Center, 621 N. Townville Street. Party Chairman Bill Jerome last night issued the following statement […]
Read moreProperty owner Rebecca Burdette will ask the Seneca Board of Zoning Appeals tonight to grant her a variance at 619 S. Walnut Street. The public hearing is set for 6 at City Hall. The members of the board of zoning appeals in Walhalla are being asked to report for a meeting at 5:30 pm Monday, April 5 at the Depot. […]
Read moreBecause of the threat of inclement weather, there will be no COVID-19 tests performed today at Clemson’s Nettles Park.
Read moreFire fighters were three hours last night at a fire in the Port Bass Community, believed to have been a mobile home on N. Davis Drive. According to Rural Fire Control, no one hurt but the American Red Cross is assisting the family impacted by the damage.
Read moreWestminster – Frances Helen Reid Mobley, 84, wife of the late Charlie Benson Mobley, was promoted to Glory, Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital. Frances was born in Anderson, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Guy William Reid and Eula Maude Turpin Cheek. Frances enjoyed sewing and collecting and she was a […]
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