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Autopsy today revealed that a 70-year old man suffered a cardiac-related event that led to yesterday morning’s accident on SC 24 in rural Oconee.  Coroner Karl Addis now classifies yesterday’s death of Johnny Patterson as a natural death.  The patrol said Patterson’s Dodge Ram left the road, the vehicle attempted an over correct, but wound up in a ditch.

The Walhalla position on refunds from the Joint Regional Sewer Authority is likely to be clearer tonight when a request from the city is placed in front of the JRSA policy-making board. One Walhalla leader, speaking only for himself, says he’s ready to vote to accept his city’s share. Councilman Tjay Bagwell says he’s thinking of fellow JRSA member city […]

One person was wounded by gunfire yesterday in an early morning altercation in downtown Seneca. The wounded person, not identified by the police, was scheduled for surgery but, according to Chief John Covington, is expected to make a full recovery. Covington says, “This occurred at Bistro 27 across from NAPA and beside the gas station on N. Cherry Street. We […]

Will Oconee teachers go red on Wednesday and join their counterparts from other counties for a rally at the State House in Columbia? At least one Oconee school leader does not expect many county teachers will be absent from the classrooms on that day. But if they choose to stay out for the rally, trustees’ chairman Jerry Lee, says their […]

On a splendid weather day, Oconee County and its natural terrains hosted an athletic competition in which fittest men and women participated. In and around South Cove Park, a one-half triathlon was staged in which more than 200 athletes swam, cycled, and ran. Charlotte Waters of Visit Oconee says it was an especially good event to allow the county to […]

A 70-year old man died yesterday after a traffic accident on highway 24 in rural Oconee. Coroner Karl Addis said the victim was Johnny C. Patterson of Douglas Drive, Seneca. Patterson died at 12:48 yesterday afternoon in the emergency room at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. State trooper David Jones said that at 11 o’clock yesterday morning Patterson’s Dodge Ram truck […]

Fire burned a home late last night in Seneca. City fire fighters were sent just before 10 o’clock last night to Chesswood Drive near S. Walnut Street. At the time, the home was unoccupied. Later, however, the American Red Cross made arrangements for the homeowner to spend last night at a hotel. Fire fighters, on the scene for about two […]

Late at night Wednesday the Walhalla police responded to a home on N. Johnson Street to investigate the potential of a domestic disturbance. The police presence turned into a drug investigation and two people at the home were arrested. Chief Sean Brinson announces the arrests of April Dawn White and Richard Eugene Cantrell on charges of marijuana possession and trafficking […]

A 3-mile section of Horsepasture Road within the Jim Timmerman Natural Resources Area at Jocassee Gorges in northern Pickens County has been closed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) due to unsafe landslides caused by massive rainfall in the area. The 3-mile section of Horsepasture Road that is now closed is from Bootleg Road south toward Jocassee […]

One of the more horrific cases of Oconee County child abuse was played out in a courtroom two months ago when a young Westminster area man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for what he did two small sisters—one of whom died. Matthew Chappell was not the biological father of the girls, but he had had a relationship with […]