Category: News

A Crimestoppers alert has been posted for a young man who the Oconee Sheriff’s Office considers to be the suspect in a Monday afternoon shoplifting at the Seneca Wal-Mart. The suspect, bald-headed and wearing a goatee, is believed to be between 25 and 37 years old. He was seen running out of the store and fleeing the parking lot in […]

Oconee County’s first drowning victim of the year was a young Greenville man who it’s believed could not swim. He was identified this morning by Coroner Karl Addis as Vikash Patel. The late afternoon July 4th tragedy yesterday occurred at the Lake Keowee Fall Creek Landing near Salem. Addis quoted Patel’s friends as saying the 21-year old man was attempting […]

Sarah Custer has been named emergency management director for Clemson University. She fills the void left by Lynn Fisher, who retired in February. Custer administers all activities related to emergency management for the university’s main campus and serves as liaison to the university’s crisis management team on issues related to emergency management and homeland security. She spent nearly two decades […]

A civil engineer and surveyor in Augusta, Georgia will come to Oconee County this weekend to tell the story of how in the 19th century a renowned astronomer and surveyor settled a dispute that two or three states could not. Tom Robertson will tell the remarkable story of Andrew Ellicott, especially how Ellicott was able to establish the border of […]

A Walhalla man has changed his strategy to complete his hike of the Appalachian Trail. To date, Wayne Garland has reached an approximate one-third of the distance from Georgia to Maine. But at a point near 700 miles in the vicinity of Roanoke, Virginia, Garland has switched strategy. Because he lost a few weeks of hiking to re-hab from the […]

Heavy machinery is reported on property adjoining a former textile manufacturing plant in Oconee County. It’s an apparent signal that developers are getting ready to build EPOCH, a planned student housing complex between Lake Hartwell and the former Jacobs Chuck plant. The property is located off 123 across from the Hartwell Village shopping center.

The Oconee coroner says the name of yesterday’s victim of apparent drowning at the upper end of Lake Keowee will be released today, once his family is notified. For now, the victim from yesterday’s incident is identified as a 21-year old Greenville man. Bystanders at Fall Creek Landing alerted the first arriving public safety units that a male had gone […]

As South Carolina’s dedicated fund to fix the roads and the bridges grows with the higher gas tax, Seneca’s heavily-traveled and bumpy 123 By-Pass is getting some special attention. Recently, the Greenville office of the DOT administered a full-depth patching, crack seal and micro-surfacing project from Old Salem Road to N. Walnut Street. Alan Adams, resident construction engineer for the […]

A field day this month in the Barnwell County town of Blackville will offer something for anyone interested in growing or eating watermelons. The event will take place Thursday, July 12 at the Clemson University Edisto Research and Education Center at 64 Research Road. Herbicides, miticides, pollinators and more are on the agenda for Watermelon Field Day. Gilbert Miller, a […]

Clinton resident Jake Rasor Jr. has been appointed by Governor McMaster to represent the 3rd Congressional District on the seven-member board of the South Carolina DNR—the Department of Natural Resources. Besides his home area, Rasor will have the duty to represent Oconee, Anderson, and Pickens counties on the policy-making board. He has a business career that includes experience in retail […]