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For discussion and possible action, long-range building plans are on Monday night’s meeting agenda of the Oconee school trustees.  Supporters of the Tamassee-Salem Elementary School worry that the board will choose the plan to close their school and the Keowee Elementary School and consolidate both into a new building.  The trustees combined work meeting/regular December meeting takes place at 6 […]

Two additional persons are in custody today in a continuing investigation of an armed robbery late last month at Utica, when sheriff’s officers answered a shots fired call on Gammell Street.  The sheriff’s office reported detained and jailed are two young males from the Pickens County town of Central.  The following charges were placed against 18-year-old Rodrickus Demale Williams II:  […]

An arrest has been made in the investigation of a burglary last weekend on Walhalla’s Keowee Street.  Law enforcement records show a 55-year old resident of Verner Street, Deedra Ann Holloway, charged with petty larceny and first-degree burglary Sunday, December 3 at a neighborhood home on Keowee Street. An investigating police officer accessed a CCTV, closed circuit television video, to […]

A meeting this morning at Pine Street established Oconee County’s Opioid Task Force, with the election of officers and explanation of the group’s major responsibility.  Dr. Aaron Zeller, Prisma Health physician, was elected chairman; Scott Krein, director of Oconee Emergency Management, elected vice-chairman.  The major responsibility of the task force will be to recommend to Oconee County Council how to […]

A three-day living nativity scene starts tonight in Salem on the grounds of the Eagle Nest Art Center at 4 Eagle Lane.  It’s a drive-thru event, from 6 to 8 o’clock tonight, tomorrow night and, weather permitting, Sunday night.

A civil hearing was called off yesterday in Walhalla just after it started when one lawyer could not hear the other.  In an online hookup, Larry Brandt of Walhalla and David Paavola of Columbia could not hear each other.  As a result, Paavola’s motion for a group of landowners near Lake Keowee for a jury trial in a case involving […]

In recent weeks, three bears have been seen in the Old Stone Church section of Clemson.  The city and the DNR are aware, and a trap has been set.  They seem to be coming out at night, likely because of the lack of rain.  As a deterrent, DNR suggests residents keep all food sources, trash, and bird feeders stowed away […]

A Walhalla accident this morning on E. Main Street near Hardee’s involved a small car and a Prisma Health ambulance.  The car driver required a trip to the hospital.  Police Chief Rice quotes accident investigators as saying the car driver failed to yield the right-of-way to the ambulance, as it was on the way to answer a service call.  According […]

A rural Oconee business was the scene of a bomb threat investigation.  Shortly after 9 last night, sheriff’s office reported, an Edinburgh Way business employee told 9-1-1 someone called a bomb threat.  The threat was that a bomb would go off in 15 minutes.  Deputies shut down the entrance.  After a search, no bomb was found and the scene returned […]

Mark Fischer, the first-year manager of Oconee Soil and Water Conservation District, is taking measure of a multi-number of achievements in 2023.  The accomplishments are reported in an interview airing on 101.7/WGOG NEWS. Five people serve as district commissioners and serve as advisers for Fischer:  Bob Winchester, chairman; Lee Keese, vice chairman; Rex Ramsay, G. Steven Smith, and Carol Hendrix.