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Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative has found a partner for its project to spread high-speed internet across its five-county service territory. Jim Lovinggood, president/CEO, today announced a partnership with WC-FIBER, a subsidiary of Abbeville-based West Carolina Telephone Cooperative. According to the results of two-year study, Blue Ridge members have shown a need for high-speed internet across large parts of the electric […]
Read morePistol, rifle, shotgun. They are among the weaponry stolen in a home burglary over the weekend near Westminster. A 27-year old man has been arrested. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, William Kyle Craig of Howling Lane was arrested and jailed Saturday on charges of grand larceny and first degree burglary. Some of the stolen weaponry has been retrieved […]
Read moreIf you are returning in-person your completed mail ballot, there is no need to wait in the line outside the Oconee County administrative complex on S. Pine Street in Walhalla. The outdoor line is for persons casting their ballot inside. Joy Scharich, elections director, says if you are returning a completed ballot in a sealed envelope, go directly to the […]
Read moreSeven new cases of COVID-19 popped up on the virus tracking page kept by the Oconee public schools for Friday, October 23. They are as follows: an employee at Walhalla James Brown Elementary; a student at West-Oak High/Hamilton Career Center; a student at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary; a case at the West-Oak High bus area; and three Seneca High School […]
Read moreThe state health agency has updated numbers (from the weekend) that show Oconee’s total of virus deaths during the pandemic has reached 33, thirty-one of those deaths officially confirmed. DHEC also projects two probable deaths.
Read moreApparently some Oconee voters have begun to show up at the wrong place. That has prompted the following announcement today from Joy Scharich, elections director: “ALL early voting is at 415 S. Pine St. in Walhalla 8:30-5. Precincts are only open on Election Day (Phones are flooded with voters asking where they go and they went to their polling place […]
Read moreSeneca – Ruth Hardy Canupp, 91, widow of the late Ted Lewis Canupp, passed away Saturday, October 24th, 2020 at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. A native of Oconee County, she was the daughter of the late Virgil Homer and Nellie Caroline Bolt Hardy. Ruth retired from Oconee Memorial Hospital as an Admissions Clerk, she worked with the Clemson […]
Read moreSeneca, SC — Walter Loren Lee, 73, husband of Helen Hancox Lee, of 452 Coffee Rd., Walhalla, SC, passed away Saturday, October 24, 2020, at St. Francis Downtown. A native of Oconee County, Mr. Lee was the son of the late Ernest and Clara George Lee. He was a member of Open Door Baptist Church where he also served […]
Read moreSalem, SC — Sybil Jean Nichols, 69, wife of the late Arvel Kenneth Nichols, of 414 Odell Rd., Liberty, SC, passed away Saturday, October 24, 2020, at her home. A native of NC, Mrs. Nichols was the daughter of the late Alfred and Ella Mae Kinsey Morgan. She was a member of Unity and Love Worship Center. Mrs. […]
Read moreWalhalla, SC – On October 23, 2020, Patricia Ann Coleman, the world lost an amazing woman to cancer. She was the wife of Dan, sister of Joan and J.C., mother of Donna and Debbie, grandmother of many spoiled grandchildren. Pat was married 62 years, and for the last 20 years resided with her husband in Walhalla where she had […]
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