Category: News

Friday is a state and a county holiday.  Employees will have Friday, May 10 off in observance of Confederate Memorial Day.  Among the closings will be the branches of the Oconee Public Library.  Book returns will be open at all locations.  Branches with Saturday hours will be open at normal time on Saturday, May 11.  The library website, oconeelibrary.org, will […]

A North Carolina businessman revealed intentions today for a multi-purpose commercial project at exit 2 on Interstate-85 in Fair Play. Hendersonville resident Terry Kidd is part of a five-member group that has envisioned the project several years, but has been delayed by the lack of available sewer service. That appears to be changing as county officials are signaling that a […]

Blue Ridge Bank announces the following additions to its staff: Jean Dillard has joined the bank as administrative assistant at its loan production office in Easley. Hannah Eades has joined the operations Department as a specialist. Becky Medlin is a new teller at the Westminster Office. And Debbie Blinkey becomes head teller at the Seneca Office.

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office says the arrests of three people last week at a home near Townville came about as part of a six-month investigation. A search took place Tuesday, April 30 at a home on Timberlake Drive and resulted in the arrests of Jackie Sue Bragg, Carey Joe Tollison, and Sandy Dean Smith. Bragg was charged with possession of […]

There is clarification this afternoon on the details of a shooting last weekend in Seneca. The following statement was released this afternoon by Chief John Covington of the police department: “In reference to the shooting incident that occurred on 4-28-19 off N Cherry Street in Seneca, this investigation has been ongoing. The investigation thus far has shown the actual shooting […]

If it seemed like you were pulling out the raincoat and umbrella way too often during the 2018 Holiday season, you were correct. Preliminary data for South Carolina indicate December was the second wettest out of the 124-year record, with a statewide average rainfall of 7.67 inches which is almost double the normal rainfall of 3.56 inches for December. According […]

Three separate cases alleging medical malpractice were filed this week in the Oconee Common Pleas Court. The three lawsuits were filed by attorneys representing individual clients. There are multiple defendants—including a physician’s assistant, a doctor, a nurse, an assisted living facility, and the Greenville Health System. In a companion case to one of the lawsuits is a wrongful death action.

A 37-year old woman has been arrested by the Seneca police—the result of undercover drug operations that date back to February. The police are announcing the arrest of Frankie Ann Goss, whose addresses are listed as both Seneca and Anderson. Warrants allege Goss distributed a quantity of methamphetamine to an undercover operative working at the direction of the police on […]

Senators Tim Scott (R-SC), Richard Burr (R-NC), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Patient Access to Cellular Transplant (PACT) Act. The bill is designed to protect access to bone marrow and cord blood transplants for Americans on Medicare and better align payment policies for hospitals that treat seniors with different types of blood cancers, like leukemia, lymphoma, […]

An Anderson 18-year-old has won $125,000 playing the South Carolina Education Lottery. The teen’s friends and family thought he was joking when he called them with the news.“None of them believed me,” he told lottery officials in Columbia this week. That’s when he decided to text his friends and family a picture of the winning ticket he’d purchased from the […]