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The success of Oconee’s business incubator in Walhalla could lead to the establishment of a second incubator elsewhere in the county. A committee recommendation to open a second incubator for start-up businesses is being placed on the agenda for the next meeting of County Council December 18. Dave Eldridge, coordinator for the Oconee Business Center at Walhalla’s Brown Square, says […]

The snow and freezing rain forecast to reach Oconee County by Saturday means there will be no Christmas parade this year in the town of West Union. The West Union parade had been scheduled for Saturday, but Mayor Linda Oliver has announced the parade has been called off.

According to a forecast from the South Carolina DNR, moisture infiltrates over South Carolina as plain, cold rain late on Friday. We should prepare for a day-long soggy rainfest Saturday. After sunset Saturday, rain changes to snow starting along the North Carolina-South Carolina border in Oconee, Pickens, and Greenville counties. Snow, heavy at times, migrates south and east along the […]

The first Friday of December is South Carolina’s designated Arbor Day. And the city of Clemson will celebrate the day tomorrow with an event at the Ashley Dearing Park on Berkeley Road. The city Parks and Recreation Department invites the public at 3 o’clock for a short program that will include tree planting, light refreshments, and a tree giveaway. Several […]

Senator Lindsey Graham has joined a bi-partisan group in the Senate to introduce a resolution directed toward the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman. According to Graham’s office, the resolution seeks to hold accountable the Crown Prince for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the blockade of Qatar, the jailing of political dissidents in Saudi Arabia, the use of […]

Oconee sheriff’s officers arrested four people this week on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine. Three of the arrests grew out of traffic stops. The first arrest was that of Jason Andrew Martin of Walhalla, identified as a passenger who had been dropped off at a local business. The second and third arrests were those of Robert James Freisel Jr., of […]

Additional work on highway 93 has been announced at Clemson. The university says the latest work will cover the highway from Palmetto Smokehouse to the Esso Club and will continue into the spring. The work will require lane closures and, at times, periods of complete closures.

South Carolina DHEC confirmed cases of the contagious viral infection the mumps with connections to Clemson University and Tri-County Technical College. The DHEC announcement states that anyone who attended or visited Tech between November 21 and November 29 may have been exposed; and anyone who visited or resided in Clemson University between those dates may have been exposed. For questions, […]

Throughout the last, many decades in Oconee County, public school enrollment has held steady in the range of 10,000-plus students. It’s no different these days. Officials say in the first four months of this school year, the enrollment has leveled out at 10,627.

The 2020 census will show to what extent the Latino community is growing in Oconee County. One county council member doesn’t need the latest population numbers to know and recognize that Latinos are beginning to take their place and exert their influence in community affairs. To last night’s council meeting, Wayne McCall welcomed a handful of Latinos and said, “These […]