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Galen DeHay, president elect at Tri-County Technical College, is among the 40 leaders nationwide selected by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program to join the 2019-2020 class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence. This leadership program is aimed at preparing the next generation of community college presidents to transform institutions to achieve higher and more equitable levels […]

Oconee County’s new comprehensive plan could run 350 or more pages, which begged the question this week who would read such a thick document. Perhaps, an executive summary might be a worthwhile addendum to the plan for which the county has turned to an outside company to prepare. At a meeting this week, two county planning commissioners promoted the idea […]

In one year’s time, Westminster’s part-time code officer has made strides in ridding some of the worst blight in the city. It’s still a work in progress, but Daniel Fletcher received audience applause and compliments from the mayor during last night’s city council meeting. Fletcher showed before and after photographs of properties from where derelict trailers and stick-built houses have […]

The police in Seneca have arrested and charged a man from the Anderson County town of Starr with grand larceny last month at a business in the Oconee Square Shopping Center. The arrest affidavit naming Andrew Chance Keaton alleges the 26-year old Keaton is responsible for stealing a 2000 Chevy truck and an EZ ride v-nosed trailer at Blackwell’s Window […]

Vandals broke stained glass windows and sprayed graffiti last weekend at a church in rural Anderson County, and the Anderson Area Crime Stoppers are turning to the public for help in solving the vandalism at Midway Presbyterian Church. The stained glass windows were part of the original church construction and were more than 125 years old. Anderson Area Crime Stoppers […]

Twelve national guardsmen from Westminster will deploy this summer to the Mideast, and an event next month will be designed to wish them well. Dale Glymph of the Westminster Public Relations Committee announced last night the community is organizing a dinner for the 12 to wish them well. Glymph says the dinner will take place Saturday, May 25 with specific […]

The Westminster police chief asked the city council last night to consider a curfew to apply toward children 14 and under. Chief Rory Jones submitted the request based on an ordinance used by a suburb in Chicago, Illinois that he says would work for his city. Jones told the mayor and council that a group of children late at night […]

Two Tri-County Tech business majors won first place at this year’s festival competition of the South Carolina Speech and Theatre Association. Jeighton Banning of Charleston placed first in the persuasive speaking category and Emma Nicholson placed first in the informative speaking category. The event was held last weekend on the Lancaster campus of the University of South Carolina.

A second Oconee sheriff’s officer will be in place by this summer in the seemingly never-ending effort to help eradicate the county’s litter problem. He’s Corp. Irvin Reyes. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says Reyes is being promoted July 1 to litter officer “assigned solely to environmental services.” Crenshaw explains, “Having one deputy balancing his time between litter enforcement and working inmates […]

Seven students from Oconee County schools came home from this year’s South Carolina 4-H Engineering Challenge with ribbons from their part in competition in science, technology, engineering and math subjects. The youth development arm of the Clemson Cooperative Extension Service, South Carolina 4-H offers the engineering challenge for students to compete in six categories. Anthony Vazques took home a red […]