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Free STD/HIV testing and educational webinars are part of PrEP Awareness Week initiatives aimed at increasing awareness about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a pill that can help greatly reduce HIV infection if an individual is exposed to the virus. Approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012, PrEP is a daily pill for use by people who don’t already […]
Read moreWestminster – Lawrence Edward Marcengill, 64, husband of Pam Rhodes Marcengill, passed away Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 at his residence. Lawrence was born in Seneca, South Carolina, he was the son of the late Charlie A. Jr. and Mary Pauline Haney Marcengill. Lawrence was self employed and a jack of all trades who loved working with his […]
Read moreSeneca – Cheryl L. Kirby Sheetz, 62, wife of Johnny R. Sheetz, passed away Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020 at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital. Cheryl was born in Baltimore, Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Jimmie P. and Miriam Standiford Kirby and was a homemaker. Cheryl is survived by her husband, Johnny R. Sheetz; daughter, Tiffany […]
Read moreThe Outdoor Lab at Clemson University will be the setting Friday and Saturday for a two-day workshop for the commissioners from the nearby Tri-County Technical College. Workshop sessions are planned from noon to 5 pm tomorrow and from 8 am to noon Saturday. Because of physical distance guidelines, the meeting can accommodate a limited number of participants. If you’d like […]
Read moreThe mayor and council of Westminster cleared away any confusion last night as to the role that their new hire in the utilities department is to play in the near future. They did it at the request of the newly-hired electrical supervisor Leigh Baker. While in a 90-day job performance probation period, Baker is to serve as electrical supervisor and […]
Read moreA Westminster consultant says by revising earlier plans, he’s confident he will be able to trim one million dollars from the cost estimate for replacing worn out water lines that supply rural customers in the vicinity of 123’the Toccoa Highway and 76/the Long Creek Highway. The key to the new plan presented last night by Troy Rosier to a special […]
Read moreSouth Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 613 new confirmed cases and 25 additional confirmed deaths today from COVID-19. There were eight new Oconee County cases, but no additional deaths of county residents. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 138,171 and confirmed deaths to 3,085. The total number of individual test results reported […]
Read moreA large section of Seneca commercial property changed hands in a transaction recorded September 10 by the office of the Oconee Register of Deeds. It’s the former Grand Rental Station building, along with 12 acres, and what are described as “some lots” along EN 1st Street. The transaction price was $750 thousand. The seller was Seigler Enterprises and the buyer, […]
Read moreThe Tenth Circuit representative on the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina will now be an Oconee County resident. Emma Morris, a Seneca attorney, was elected today by a vote of the General Assembly at Columbia to fill the seat held by Anderson’s Chuck Allen. According to a report by the Charleston Post and Courier, Allen withdrew […]
Read moreAs the country’s COVID-19 death toll surpasses 200 thousand , the Oconee County death toll from the virus has reached 28. Statewide the death toll was reported yesterday at 3,067. Other Oconee County numbers, according to a South Carolina DHEC posting, include 68 county residents hospitalized for COVID. The county’s case count has reached 1,355. More than 15 thousand tests […]
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