Category: News

The distance between farms and homes and other development returns to the agenda next week of the Oconee County Agricultural Advisory Board. Agricultural buffers is one of the items on the agenda for the 6:30 Monday night meeting at the county administrative complex in Walhalla. The public is invited. Another topic will be the responses received from a November listening […]

Roads within the Timmerman Natural Resources Area at Jocassee Gorges in northern Oconee and Pickens are closing today in advance of the approaching winter storm. According to the DNR, those roads will remain closed until they are deemed safe to drive again. Mark Hall, land manager for the Jocassee Gorges, says the roads are being closed to prevent damage to […]

Public safety officials say a young child, suffering from multiple burns, received an air flight this morning from the Westminster area to a medical facility. A helicopter landing zone was set up during the 7 o’clock this morning in a grassy area adjoining the Tabor Baptist Church near 123/the Westminster-Toccoa Highway. Westminster Fire Department and the Oconee Sheriff’s Office were […]

The Eagle Ridge School in Salem announces that its Living Christmas Story drive-thru scheduled this weekend has been postponed until Thursday thru Saturday, December 20-22. The times are 6 to 8 o’clock each of those three nights.

The timing for our winter weather remains the same, as the forecast calls for one-half inch of plain rain tomorrow, changing to snow late Saturday night, changing to a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain late Sunday afternoon. Decent accumulations are predicted along and north of I-85, with 1-2 inches near Clemson, and 6-10 inches in the northeast corner […]

The South Carolina Sheriffs Association is asking everyone to be cautious when receiving phone calls requesting donations or information on behalf of the Sheriffs’ Association. The association executive director, Jarrod Bruder, said, “Our office has been inundated with phone calls…from individuals who believe they are returning a missed phone call. Some callers are being told via a recorded message that […]

For a period of hours yesterday morning and afternoon, a phone company outage prevented 9-1-1 calls from being received by the Oconee E-911/Communications Center at the Law Enforcement Center. Until service was restored by mid afternoon, the 9-1-1 center was able to accommodate only calls made from landline phones. It’s believed that no major emergencies were missed during the outage.

In about 90 minutes yesterday, an Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority committee cut $181 thousand from the contractor’s budget to renovate the administrative and operations facilities of the wastewater treatment plant at Seneca. At meeting’s end, Westminster representative Brian Ramey said the cuts were “still quite shy” of what Westminster and Walhalla representatives would be comfortable with. The committee yesterday […]

Three inmates from the South Carolina Department of Corrections have arrived at the Oconee Detention Center, and Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says they will be placed on work details. Crenshaw says, “Currently evaluating them to determine job assignment.” Oconee County has employed state labor in the past, but these three are the first since the start of a program called “Life […]

The city of Clemson and the Pumped Customers of the Anderson Regional Joint Water System have received word of a water main break at the Clemson Booster Pumped Station near U-S 76 and I-85 in Anderson. There is one pump feeding the city of Clemson, Clemson University, the Town of Pendleton, and Sandy Springs Water District. According to the city, […]