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The Epoch student apartments and the complexes under construction across 123 at Hartwell Village are in Oconee’s pipeline for sewer service, but not the possibility of an additional one thousand apartment units nearby. In the last two months, members of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority have heard about and discussed apparent interest from a realtor for a project to construct […]
Read morePrisma Health Upstate (which includes Oconee Memorial Hospital) and AnMed Health Center are among 16 South Carolina health care facilities that have received 97,500 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Today’s DHEC announcement states that its distribution center has received 14,625 doses and distributed 5,555 to health care facilities without the ultra-cold storage required for storing Pfizer vaccine. By last night, […]
Read moreSeneca – Frank Albert Rogers, 85, husband of Audrey Lee Crooks Rogers, passed away, December 31st, 2020, at his residence surrounded by his loving family. Born in Walhalla, SC, he was the son of the late Commodore Franklin and Ila Brown Rogers. Frank was retired from Saco-lowell as an application engineer and was in the United States Air Force […]
Read moreWithout question, Oconee’s judge of probate believes that in the COVID-19 year of 2020, matrimony took a hit. At least from the vantage point of Probate Judge Kenny Johns and his staff. The office reports these matrimonial numbers: 552 marriage licenses were issued. That’s only 10 fewer than 2019. The real difference came in the number of ceremonies that the […]
Read moreWestminster -William Jerry Barnett, 79, passed away on December 30, 2020 at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital. Born in Oconee County to the late Herschel Andy and Sara Louise Hubbard Barnett. Graduating from Westminster High School in 1959, he farmed with his father where they ran a small dairy. Having proudly served in the US Army during the […]
Read moreClemson – Mary Jane (Morneau) Cliche, 78, passed away Wednesday, December 30, 2020, peacefully at Oconee Memorial Hospital in Seneca, South Carolina with her husband at her side. Mary Jane was a retired Registered nurse with more than 30 years of service. Mary Jane was born November 23, 1942 in Winslow, Maine, the daughter of Phillip and Sadie (Bolduc) Morneau. […]
Read moreAs first announced Nov. 21, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) will not report daily COVID-19 numbers on New Year’s Day. Data that would be reported January 1 will be available online the following day. Additionally, while DHEC will continue to provide daily COVID-19 updates on the agency’s webpage, beginning Jan. 2, 2021, the same information […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today provided the following update on the state’s distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, including the state’s progress in vaccinating those in Phase 1a and ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of all South Carolinians: “Since receiving the first doses of the vaccine on Dec. 14, we remain encouraged by […]
Read moreIt’s already a Happy New Year for Seneca policeman Casey Bowling. With an announcement today, Bowling has been elevated from interim chief of police to police chief, as the successor to the retired John Covington. In a joint announcement from Mayor Alexander and Administrator Moulder, Bowling won out “over several qualified candidates” who competed for the job. A law enforcement […]
Read moreThe chairwoman of Oconee’s board of school trustees, Denise McCormick, is confident that district administration on Monday will re-assess the extent to which the COVID-19 spread impacts the third and fourth quarters of the academic calendar. Students who’ve opted for in-person instruction are due back in the classrooms. “There may have to be a decision made at some point whether […]
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