Category: News

Just how healthy to do you feel, Mr. and Mrs. Oconee County? A national ranking released this morning says you are doing OK, compared to most other South Carolinians. Annual county health rankings by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute rank Oconee the 11th healthiest county among South Carolina’s 46 counties. Beaufort on […]

The fact that next year’s National Republican Convention will take place in the Carolinas presents an opportunity for Oconee Republicans to seek delegate spots there. So far, no member of the Oconee GOP has made it known that he or she aspires to have a direct vote to nominate President Trump to run for a second term, but Oconee Chairman […]

A 34-year old Seneca man was jailed after the police determined a gun shot was fired on the 123 By-Pass. The police have released warrants showing Henry Arthur Kilpatrick II was charged with discharging firearm in city limits and discharging a firearm into vehicle while occupied. Shortly before 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon, a police officer responded to reports of a […]

All stakeholders in 123 between Seneca and Clemson, as well as the general public, are invited by Oconee for the next two days to weigh-in on what might be done to change the four-lane corridor connecting Oconee’s largest city with the major university of Clemson. County government has brought in a professional planning group, which is open for the public’s […]

This is a big day for officials to grapple with the traffic problems that plague 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor. County Council holds a special afternoon meeting with a steering committee of the planning commission to talk about the process for creating a corridor plan. And tonight 123 property owners, along with the general public, are invited to Pine Street to […]

The Walhalla police investigating a weekend fatal car accident are getting help from the state patrol. An accident reconstruction team from the South Carolina Highway Patrol is expected to be in Walhalla today to re-construct what happened at 2:30 Saturday afternoon in the intersection of S. Cedar and S. Broad streets, not far from the library. One person died in […]

Oconeeans attending a Healthy Oconee Coalition event today are likely to leave a Seneca gymnasium with a better understanding of what it’s like to live in poverty and, perhaps, a new found compassion for those who are disadvantaged. The Rev. Beth Lindsay Templeton, founder and CEO of Our Eyes Were Opene, was scheduled to lead a poverty simulation exercise this […]

The Westminster fire chief says his department continues to try to pinpoint the cause for a late afternoon fire, but fire fighters are confident the fire started in an abandoned mobile home.  The fire scene late yesterday afternoon, off Huff Street, provided difficult to access because of poor road conditions in the neighborhood. Chief Michael Smith says the belief is […]

A prescribed burn today by the U-S Forest Service could mean smoke for the Westminster area of Oconee County. At 10 this morning, the Forest Service plans to burn an area in the Cleveland Community off Black Mountain Road. Prescribed burns are undertaken to help endangered species and reduce the fuels that lead to wildfire. Assisting USFS crews will be […]

Residents can help the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) track West Nile virus this spring and summer by submitting certain species of dead birds for lab testing. DHEC’s dead bird surveillance program allows the Agency to better understand where and when there is an increase in West Nile virus (WNV) activity, as a high rate of birds infected […]