Category: News

Oconee’s new economic development director says a “warm status” and code-named project holds promise. Annie Caggiano, in her first official report to the county economic development board, says Oconee is one of three finalists for the location by a European maker of automotive components. According to Caggiano, holiday time is a time to be patient, as few projects are finalized […]

A recent meet-and-greet with the immediate neighbors of the Oconee Regional Airport is considered to have succeeded to allay concerns of exactly what the airport is about to do in the Shiloh Road area of the airport property. According to Jeff Garrison, airport manager, airport officials were able to shoot down persisting rumors that the airport is about to re-locate […]

The Oconee Public Library System has joined libraries elsewhere in a boycott of a major publisher. Macmillan Publishers this month enacted an embargo on library e-book purchases that prevent libraries of any size from buying more than one copy of a newly-released e-book for the first eight weeks after publication. The purpose: to increase sales. The Oconee Public Library has […]

The Oconee Regional Airport seems busier. The days of the airport being little more than an airstrip in a rural part of the county seems to be gone forever. And the manager, Jeff Garrison, last night offered a couple of theories. The championship-winning era of the Clemson football team has increased the volume of air traffic during Clemson home football […]

The Salem Library extends an invitation this morning to its monthly craft/story program targeted to pre-school children.  This morning’s program at 11 o’clock is aimed at expanding the creativity of young minds and developing the motor skills needed for school.  The program theme is “Turkeys.”

The accused driver in the death last summer of a woman near Seneca has been denied bond. Which means, it’s back to jail for El Asia Hassain Muhammed, while the prosecutors prepare to bring his case to trial. At the age of 19 late at night July 1, Muhammed, it’s alleged by authorities, drove a car past the 123-Wells Highway […]

The Seneca police say a man for whom a warrant was issued has been arrested in the Pickens County town of Central. Jeremy Rothell, operations major for the Seneca police, identified Jamel Deshawn Brown as the suspect in a stabbing Friday night last week at the Seneca Gardens Apartment. The victim was hospitalized for stab wounds to the right eye […]

A young man has been ordered by the court to spend the next 35 years in prison for the shooting deaths last year of two men in the Utica Community near Seneca. Twenty-year old Steven Lee Reynolds pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of murder and two lesser charges. The judge approved a negotiated sentence announced by the prosecutor. […]

Two mornings after a Walhalla councilman pitched a battle for a $25 dollar water re-connection fee for those who can’t or won’t pay their bills, the question arises: Does he regret not siding with colleagues who wanted to lower fee from $65 to $35? Had he, the fee would have been cut in a 4-2 vote by $30. Councilman David […]

An Oconee jury found Tyson Dewitt McWhorter guilty of a South Carolina game law violation. McWhorter was fined, placed on probation and will see his hunting license suspended for three years. A court officer said the jury found McWhorter to be in possession of a bear that had recently been shot and moved from the point of kill without a […]