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The trip to Columbia and a talk with the governor this week has opened in the mind of Paul Cain, the Oconee County councilman, the possibility of funding sources to enhance economic development opportunities for Oconee County. Cain says he has learned about a provision of the new U-S tax law, promoted by Senator Tim Scott, that would create “Opportunity […]

To those who advocate otherwise, the Oconee County Sheriff says, “I am not in favor of teachers carrying guns….” The second-term sheriff cites two reasons. “They would potentially leave a room full of students alone to go after an active shooter, the police will not know if they are the shooter or not. I want whatever it takes to make […]

In a statement yesterday, Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said there’s no evidence that county schools are under any known credible threat. However, Crenshaw requests parents, guardians, faculty, teachers, administrators and students to alert law enforcement if they see or hear about any threat involving any Oconee school. Yesterday deputies were placed in schools to re-assure everyone about the safety of […]

Oconee School District will raise money through the sale of bonds to pay off remaining work at two schools—Walhalla Elementary and West-Oak High. This past Monday the county trustees passed a resolution to sell up to $15.5 million worth of bonds during a sale that is scheduled Tuesday next week. Gloria Moore, the district finance director, says, “This is in […]

A Westminster man has been formally charged with murder in the shooting death last week of a homeowner near Walhalla. The accused, Tyler Mark Broome, was also wounded in the incident which has been described as a trespassing incident at the home of Robert Steven McDowell on Quarter Horse Trail near highway 11. After being treated at a Greenville hospital, […]

At Columbia, Oconee’s Julian Davis took the chance yesterday to promote recreation to help children avoid lives of trouble by speaking to Governor Henry McMaster. Davis heads a committee that is looking to enhance recreation offerings across Oconee County, and he wanted to impress on the governor how wholesome recreation can help a child avoid a bad path in life. […]

The effort by Clemson to annex seven acres at Hartwell Village in Oconee made for discussion yesterday in Columbia, where a couple of Oconee County councilmen were at the state capital for an Association of Counties’ event. Seneca’s county councilman Paul Cain said the proposed annexation was discussed with Oconee’s state lawmakers and at least one member of the Pickens […]

The third, and final transformer to be hauled to Duke’s Bad Creek hydro plant has begun its last leg of the journey.  The truck hauling the transformer departed from the Cherry Hill Campground this morning.

Seneca is now in the possession of a lifetime of manuscripts, writings, and photographs that belonged to the city’s late historian, Louise M. Bell. And the collection is considered asvaluable possession for the city’s museums—both the Lunney and the Bertha Lee Strickland. Mrs. Bell died last year, and her sons donated the collection to the city for which Seneca is […]

A community outreach meeting takes place in Clemson tonight to inform the public about utility construction next month that will affect traffic on highway 93. The first phase of the work will be underground electrical duct banks and water lines from Cherry Road to Centennial Boulevard. Tonight’s meeting takes place at 6:30 in the Bellsouth Auditorium at the Madren Center.