Category: News

Duke Energy invites the public to the World of Energy at 10 o’clock this morning to hear a story about gold, rattlesnakes, and moonshine in Oconee County.  It’s a story dating back 200 years.  Duke’s Chris Rimel will be the presenter of the free, educational program that is the first in a year-long series to help mark Oconee’s 150th year–the […]

Sheriff’s officers have arrested an Oconee County woman on charges that she burglarized a home on Crowe’s Roost Road in the vicinity of n. highway 11. Authorities believe on January 3 Brandy Michelle Whitt, 39, was one of three people who entered the home in spite of the occupant’s resistance. Authorities say they were first alerted to the incident when […]

South Carolina U-S senators Scott and Graham voted yesterday to end the government shutdown.  “Ending the government shutdown stops the losing for the country.  But it’s not winning.  Winning is solving the nation’s problems,” Graham said in a statement.  His colleague Scott termed what happened the “Schumer shutdown,”–a reference to his Senate counterpart, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer.  Third District […]

Members of Walhalla’s St. Luke United Methodist Church quote a police officer as saying a bicyclist in an early night accident last night was very lucky.  No severe injuries were reported.  That accident occurred in the vicinity of the church during the rainstorm.  Authorities say medical help responded, but no one was transported from the scene.

Seneca voters get the chance next month to meet and hear the candidates in the city’s 2018 election.  Six candidates are running for four seats on the eight-member city council.  The Oconee Chamber of Commerce will hold the candidates’ forum at 6 o’clock Monday night, February 12 in the North Room of the Gignilliat Community Center on N. Townville Street.  […]

Returning from the state General Assembly last week, Senator Thomas Alexander said the Senate cast a unanimous vote to override Governor McMaster’s veto of funds to buy new school buses.  And that, the Oconee-Pickens Republican says, will create a cycle from one year to the next to allow the state to replace aging buses, parts for which are difficult to […]

The Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals will welcome comment tonight on a request to put up a new cell tower in the Tamassee community.  The hearing centers on a special exception request to build a 225′, self-supported tower at 226 Whitmire Church Road.  Tonight’s 6 o’clock public hearing takes place in County Council Chambers in Walhalla.

If you are an architect, the city of Clemson needs your help and will pay for it. The plan is to contract with three to four architects for a two-year cycle.  According to the city’s announcement, “The City of Clemson recently increased their fees for the Board of Architectural Review.  The reason for this change is to ensure that the […]

Residents of Fair Play are invited to a meeting to talk about the future of the old Fair Play school.  The key question will be whether to save the building or tear it down.  The meeting takes place 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, February 4 at the Fair Play Church of God.

As the two-term Oconee probate judge, Kenny Johns has conducted hundreds of marriage ceremonies.  On Saturday, he was married to his long time love.  Johns and Oconee sheriff’s dispatcher Katie Hafner Voss exchanged vows at the low country home in Walterboro of Colleton County Probate Judge Ashley Heaton Amundson.  After a quiet weekend at Johns’ family vacation home at Edisto […]