Category: News

Chairman Bill Jerome of Oconee Republicans is hopeful that as many Republican voters as possible will remember to turn out to cast ballots tomorrow in the party’s primary run-off election. Voting takes places countywide at the regular locations, starting at 7 in the morning and ending at 7 at night. There are a couple of big stakes involved in tomorrow’s […]

The police in Walhalla say they have a suspect in mind in their investigation of an incident of domestic violence this morning at a home near Bulwinkle Drive. Paul Harris, the interim chief, said the investigation started after officers were sent to a home on Hannoun Drive shortly before 4:45 this morning. According to Harris, a woman at that address […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected Adam Ruh as one of the resident inspectors at the Oconee Nuclear Station. Since 2014, Ruh has been a resident inspector at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama. Before joining the government agency, he provided engineering support for overhauling and de-activating two submarines at the Norfolk, Virginia naval shipyard. At Oconee, Ruh joins […]

The next nationwide population count is a year and a half away, but the counters continue to be bullish on Oconee County. In the last population estimate, from last summer, the U-S Census Bureau projected Oconee’s population at 77,270. That’s a four percent increase during a seven-year period from the last Census in 2010 thru July 1 of last year.

A small fire on the front porch of a home near Seneca was contained to the outside of the home and extinguished by a volunteer fire fighter who was passing by. The fire occurred shortly before 8:15 this morning at a home on the Friendship Road.

Pre-existing cardiovascular disease most likely contributed to the weekend traffic death of an elderly driver near Westminster. Coroner Karl Addis announced the results of the autopsy in the death of Basil Bibb. He was 84 years old. The highway patrol reported Bibb drove a pickup truck that left the Greenfield Road near the Theo Martin Road on the right hand […]

Thunderstorms broke several poles in the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative system. Compounded by problems with a transmission line, all Blue Ridge crews were called in to make repairs. The hardest hit part of the multi-county system was Pickens County, centered in an area north of the city of Pickens. By 7:30 this morning, more than 429 Pickens County customers remained […]

A burglar stole a 2008 F-350 truck after breaking into a building on the grounds of Lake Keowee Ford in Seneca and left thousands of dollars in damage to other vehicles. But the police say they have arrested an Easley man—20-year old Ethan Chantz Esuary—and charged him with grand larceny and burglary second degree. The police quote Lake Keowee Ford […]

The Democratic candidate for District Two, State House of Representatives, will speak Tuesday night in Seneca. The public is invited for a question-answer period with Jody Gaulin at 6:30 Tuesday night in the North Room at the Gignilliat Community Center. Gaulin will face Republican Bill Sandifer, the incumbent, in the General Election November 6.

Greenville County resident Nafis Agin Holt is no longer under the detention of Oconee County. But there is a pending legal matter to which he must answer in his home county. After being told that Holt had served 68 days in Oconee jail awaiting trial on drug charges, Judge Cordell Maddox placed Holt on probation. But the defendant awaits trial […]