Category: News

Jane S. Sosebee, state President, AT&T South Carolina, will deliver Tri-County Technical College’s spring commencement address. The ceremony will be held Monday, May 6, at 6 p.m. at Clemson University’s Littlejohn Coliseum. Graduates will be awarded degrees, diplomas and/or certificates during the College’s commencement. In addition to families and guests of the graduates, alumni and other friends of the College […]

Duke Energy and the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism will formally open the new Camp Cedar Creek at 10 o’clock Saturday morning at the Keowee-Toxaway State Park in Pickens County. Leading the event will be state PRT Director Duane Parish and Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe, Duke’s South Carolina president. Camp Cedar Creek is a new recreation facility developed as […]

Oconee school leaders are going to take additional time to gauge public feedback before voting on whether to make a major change in their calendar for the school year 2020-21. The calendar for 2019-20 has already been decided, but there’s a debate going on as to whether the district should try to divert from the state mandate that the school […]

Oconee school trustees exercised an available option last night, but it might not please the county’s governing board—the Oconee County Council. On a motion by Buddy Herring, the board unanimously voted to request one additional tax mill from the county council for the new school year that will start July 1. District officials had been contemplating a new budget that […]

The Joint Regional Sewer Authority is at work to repair a wastewater pump station damaged by a flash flood that occurred Friday at Coneross Creek. The creek level rose 12 feet in four hours, submerging the station at the wastewater treatment plant and causing a sewer overflow that continues to flow into the creek. Greenstone Construction has been hired to […]

An Oconee judge refused to set bond today for an Oconee man accused of murdering his grandmother by shooting her at a home in Seneca. Decota Castle Brown, one of two men arrested in the death March 7 of Geraldine Castle, appeared in front of General Sessions Judge Cordell Maddox, but the judge decided that, at least for now, he’s […]

  A wife near Seneca is in jail, charged with the attempted murder of her husband. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office the victim, identified as Charles Reeder Jr., made a 9-1-1 call and said he had been stabbed several times by his wife. Mr. Reeder is a patient at the Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. His wife, Nell Delores […]

The investigation of a report of a suspicious person turned into a case in which the Oconee Sheriff’s Office recovered a stolen car near Seneca. A deputy sheriff encountered Brandon Wayne Arnold during the early morning hours Friday at a Friendship Road convenience store. After being questioned about a car he was driving, sheriff’s officers charged 37-year old Arnold with […]

The long-awaited observation tower on Sassafras Mountain, South Carolina’s highest point at 3,553 feet above sea level, officially opened to the public today on Earth Day. “The highest point in the state is a geographical landmark that every South Carolinian, young and old, should have the opportunity to see and enjoy,” said Alvin Taylor, director of the South Carolina Department […]

Here’s the latest announcement from Westminster:  “Yesterday evening, Easter Sunday, about 6:20 PM a connection was made between two sections of pipe that completed the permanent re-routing of the water line between points west of Singleton Road & Hwy.123/ Toccoa Hwy. back to the water source. Approximately 300 households west of this point have been without water service since Saturday […]