Category: News

After 36 years, Charles Dalton has retired as president/CEO of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative.  In his place comes Jim Lovingood, whose tenure with the retail supplier of electric power in Upstate counties is practically as long as Dalton’s.  Lovingood’s goal is to keep Blue Ridge Electric on the cutting edge of technology.  In his message to customers, he said, […]

A Saturday night traffic accident took the life of a 28-year old man from Fair Play. Coroner Karl Addis said Brandon P. Harley of Bratton Road died at the scene, near 414 S. Friendship Road. Harley died of a head injury, and Addis said he was not wearing a seatbelt. The highway patrol reported the accident shortly before 10 pm, […]

A winter weather warning has led to no school today in Oconee County.  Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent for operations, made the announcement shortly after 7:30 last night.  Hanvey said, “With the potential timing, we can’t even do a delay.”  So, again, there is no school today in Oconee.  Furman University will delay opening until 10 o’clock this morning.  Classes there […]

The 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office has announced a pre-trial hearing will take place next month in the case of teenager arrested after shootings in 2016 at Townville that wounded two people and resulted in the deaths of two others. According to an order by the Family Court, a hearing will be held the week of February 12 on the prosecution’s […]

A man who campaigned for Oconee Sheriff but then was arrested, convicted and sent to prison struck out in an attempt to have a higher court review whether there were irregularities during his trial. In a one-page notice, the state Supreme Court last year rejected a writ of certiorari filed for James Bartee. Bartee was convicted in 2012 in the […]

Duke Energy will manage the movement next week of three, 700,000-pound transformers to the Bad Creek Hydroelectric Station. The transformers are to be hauled by truck Thursday, January 11 from West Union to Bad Creek During these heavy equipment moves, traffic on highways 107 and 28 to North Carolina will encounter lengthy delays. Motorists are encouraged to use alternate routes […]

A leaky water line in Westminster this week is proving difficult to fix, and the cold weather is no help.  On behalf of the city, an outside contractor has been at work since Wednesday afternoon on North Avenue near Oak Street.  The repair work is blocking off a part of North Avenue.  Chris Carter, city administrator, says no one has […]

A final presentation of a corridor plan for Clemson’s College Avenue will take place 6 to 7 o’clock Thursday night, February 15 at the new fire station at 740 Issaqueena Trail.  City of Clemson has been working with the design firm Alta to figure out what the main drag should look like and feature in the future.

The Cosmopolitan Woman’s Club received a check for $2,500–the top prize in this year’s Festival of Trees competition staged at Duke Energy’s World of Energy.  That money will go to the club’s organization of choice, the Collins Children’s Home near Seneca.  Smaller prizes went to second place Tribble Center, third place Oconee Humane Society, and fourth place Century 21 Realtors.  […]

Oconee County leaders are at work on an ambitious schedule of activities to mark the county’s breakaway from the Pickens District in 1868—even though money is limited and there’s only a certain amount of time that paid staff can devote. At their meeting last night, members of the county’s Arts and Historical Commission talked up the Sesquicentennial, the county’s 150th […]