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Testimony has begun at Oconee Courthouse in the state’s case against Scott Norman Christner. The defendant went on trial yesterday on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor or attempt and criminal sexual conduct with minor or attempt. According to a courthouse, the testimony of a few prosecution witnesses was heard during the first day of trial yesterday. This morning […]
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A 39-year old Greenville County woman was arrested last weekend in Oconee and charged with stealing a Dodge Ram 3500 flatbed near West Union. Oconee sheriff’s office records show Simpsonville resident Ashley Lynne Blaska was arrested Saturday after an officer investigated a disturbance complaint at a home on Linn Garden Lane. Later, a Dodge Ram truck was reported stuck in […]
Read moreThe price of oil suffered losses last week and that, according to AAA, enabled the pump charge for gasoline to back away from record highs. The lower global price of crude oil is now more than $20 cheaper. By yesterday, South Carolina’s gas price average was $3.96, a 10-cent drop from the week previous. After hitting a record $4.11 March […]
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A new public school at Seneca, in the next couple of years, will join the nearby Borg Warner complex as landmarks along a stretch of the Wells Highway. Drawing attention to that yesterday was the break of ground for the school district’s new Seneca middle school. For the middle age school populations of the Seneca area, they can count on […]
Read moreThe failure of the Oconee Municipal Association to meet over the last four years was described last night as unfortunate and a hindrance to progress the county’s municipal leaders could make toward better government within the county’s five towns and cities. Seneca Councilman Joel Ward, chosen to lead the municipal association in 2018, took the blame for not calling meetings. […]
Read moreThe Walhalla, West Union, and Westminster mayors grabbed key offices last night within the county’s organized group of municipalities. It was a rare meeting of the Oconee Municipal Association, and the first since the strife created within the county’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority. There might now be more municipal association meetings, as the association is now led by West Union’s […]
Read moreFire broke out in a storage building in rural Oconee. No injuries reported in the late night fire on Chevy Lane near the Oconee Creek Road, inside the service territory of the volunteer Picket Post/Camp Oak Fire Department. A large number of fire fighting agencies and their equipment were mobilized shortly after 9:45 and many remained on the scene for […]
Read moreA docket published for a week of Oconee General Sessions Court next month places a four-year old death case in Seneca as number one for trial. Listened atop the docket for the April 18 term is the state’s case against Mack Adam Gaines, charged with neglect of vulnerable adult and abuse of neglect resulting in the death of a vulnerable […]
Read moreThe court of General Sessions at Walhalla is selecting a jury to hear the state’s evidence in a case alleging violation of sex laws involving a child of minor age. The case is titled, South Carolina v. Scott Norman Christner. As he qualified the pool of jurors, Judge Maddox asked questions of prospective jurors whether they had ever reported a […]
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U-S Forest Service personnel have deemed today’s weather favorable for a prescribed burn at Long Creek. According to Adam Henry of the USFS it is planned as a 375-acre burn off Orchard Road.
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