Category: News

The success enjoyed by the office of Oconee Economic Development in the last few years, led by Richard Blackwell, has been described as a team effort. And one member of that team is stepping up to fill the head job while the county goes about finding a successor to Richard Blackwell who is moving into the private work sector. Janet […]

During the afternoon session of an Oconee General Sessions trial, the prosecution yesterday prepared to play as evidence a body camera video taken by one of the Walhalla police officers who responded to a domestic call in the summer of 2017. Officer Don Blackwell responded to a mobile home on Scenic Drive and interviewed the woman identified as the victim. […]

A rare standing-room-crowd for a meeting of Walhalla’s leaders. Most of the room was taken by activists, health care workers, and other members of the public who implored the city council to press for the expansion of bus passenger service to the city. Recreation director John Galbreath led a discussion of the controversy over whether municipal recreation departments should schedule […]

A crime scene yesterday afternoon near the corporate limits of Walhalla. Oconee sheriff’s investigators were on the scene of a burglary at a home on W-S Boundary Street, according to Sheriff Mike Crenshaw.

A spokeswoman for Westminster Public Works, Diana Denny, says the boil water advisory that had been in effect parts of three days for customers in the area of Welcome Church Road has been lifted.  It means those customers may return to using their water as normal.  The advisory was lifted at 3:15 this afternoon.

Oconee-Pickens Senator Thomas Alexander will chair a special prison safety committee, and he told the Westminster Rotary Club today he’s looking forward to coming up with ways to make safer conditions in South Carolina prisons, including the maximum security Lee Correctional Institution. That prison, in Bishopville, was the scene this year of a fire and a riot that killed seven […]

One way or another, the name of the esteemed Oconee educator Fred Hamilton will remain on a school building within the county public school district.  That’s a flat statement this afternoon from Steve Hanvey, associate superintendent of education.  Last night the trustees discussed the idea of naming the new career center the Oconee County Career and Technology Center and using […]

The next update on the boil water advisory affecting the Welcome Church Road area of the Westminster service area is scheduled for 3 o’clock this afternoon. At that time it’s the hope, according to Diana Denny of the Westminster Public Works Department, that the city will be able to lift the advisory that was put in place Sunday after a […]

The chairwoman of Oconee County Council, Edda Cammick, says Richard Blackwell is going to be missed. Cammick says she texted Blackwell yesterday and offered him her best wishes. And Cammick said this: “Very talented, valuable, and likable. I can see where industry leaders took notice. Although I was initially surprised by his resignation, considering he interacts and networks with industry […]

A special Oconee County school is marking its 99th year of educating children. The current day chief executive officer of the Tamassee DAR School, Lori Bailey, will tell the story during a presentation next week at Duke’s World of Energy. Everyone is invited to hear and meet Bailey at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning, July 24, another in a World of […]