Category: News

Under a blue sky and in summer heat, Keowee Key residents are eager today to try out their re-built golf course. The ribbon-cutting and grand re-opening mean that 18-hole golf has been returned as one of the amenities for those who live in the Oconee County lake community. The re-built golf course, a multi-million dollar project, is one of the […]

A near 200-year old home in Pendleton, designed and built by the famous American architect Robert Mills, is headed for the auction block. Auction Services of Anderson will conduct live and online bidding at 6 o’clock Tuesday evening, September 24. Located at 112 W. Queen Street not far from the Village Green, Marshalsea is part of the estate of Mary […]

The production of a Walt Disney Pictures movie is scheduled for the Clemson University main campus September 14-23, including at halftime of the football game with Charlotte Sept. 21. Disney has begun production of a film called “Safety”–inspired by the story of former Clemson student-athlete Ray Ray McElrathbey, who adopted his younger brother Fahmarr while a member of the football […]

For a second day, fire fighters were out in force to extinguish home fires in the Salem area.  Today’s fire apparently broke out in the living room of an un-occupied mobile home on Bugs Road near the Shallowford Road.  Clint Livingston of Emergency Services says the home owner had left the premises about an hour earlier.  A neighbor, he said, […]

The busy Seneca corner of 123 By-Pass and EN 1st Street is in line for a QT convenience store and service station. The Quiktrip Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma has entered into leases with two sets of property owners to build a store within a triangular piece of property that borders the By-Pass, EN 1st, and the Old Salem Road. The […]

A retired Oconee deputy sheriff was the fatal victim this week in a motorcycle accident in western North Carolina. Wayne Smith was 76 years old and a lover of riding motorcycles. A memorial service is planned 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Davenport Funeral Home. Honorary escorts will include deputy sheriffs, the Marine Corps League, and the Patriot Guard Riders.

A community group in Seneca says it is ready to take over public school property. The transaction could become reality on a favorable vote this Monday night by the Oconee County school trustees. It’s the understanding of the group the Blue Ridge Community Center that the school district, by August 2020, will no longer have use for the Code Learning […]

Re-enactors will take their positions tomorrow during a frontier encampment at the Oconee Station State Historic Site near Walhalla.  For those who go, it’s a chance to imagine the period after the Revolutionary War when the Oconee Station was a frontier outpost.  The program, 10 am to 3 pm, is appropriate for all ages and will include demonstration of muskets, […]

As a youngster, Leslie Hagerty had a penchant to talk and to tell and hear stories.  Those attributes have served her well in her role as director of Oconee County’s official history museum.  Hagerty has made 10 years on the job, and last evening she greeted friends and county officials who congratulated her on her achievement.  As only the second […]

Everyone is invited to an event tomorrow in Easley that’ll benefit Special Olympics South Carolina.  The highway patrol is involved in staging “Show at the Point” that’ll feature food, music, and door prizes from 10 to 2 at the 5 Point Church, 1039 Pendleton Street, Easley.  Tickets are $20 dollars.  All proceeds go to Special Olympics South Carolina.