Category: News

The state police announced the arrest this morning of the former finance director for the city of Clemson.  Tom Alexander Sparacino, a Central resident, was charged with embezzling more than $10 thousand during more than a 16-year period from 2001 to 2017.  In the arrest warrant narrative released by the state Law Enforcement Division, “Tom Alexander Sparacino did use credit […]

A man and his son went into a Westminster restaurant for a meal last week.  When they came out, their truck was gone.  The police determined that the pickup truck was stolen.  The crime occurred in the Hardee’s parking lot on the night of Wednesday, November 1.  Police Chief Rory Jones says his officers have identified two suspects and have […]

South Carolina’s first university-led teacher residency program is being introduced at Clemson University.  The program is to be housed in the College of Education’s Eugene T. Moore School of Education and made possible by a gift from Darla Moore, whose father had a distinguished career as a teacher, coach and principal in Lake City.  The Moore family’s $10 million endowment […]

The auto dealerships Lake Keowee Ford and Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram are donating $24 thousand dollars today to the Breast Care Center at Oconee Memorial Hospital.  The dealerships pledged to donate $100 dollars for each new vehicle sold in October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to support neighbors who are battling breast cancer.  The Breast […]

Construction on the new Palmetto Trail passage through Walhalla’s Stumphouse Tunnel  Park got underway yesterday, according to an announcement last night by Brent Taylor, city administrator.  Taylor and other  officials see the trail extension as a way to make the Stumphouse park a regional destination.  And the Palmetto Conservation Foundation calls the trail the spine for a mountain biking trail […]

The Oconee County Sesquicentennial next year will have a little bit of this…and a little bit of that.  But its organizers say it’s not going to be anything like the bash the county threw 50 years ago for the Centennial, where the headliners included Strom Thurmond and Minnie Pearl.  Leslie White and Phil Shirley last night unveiled a banner proclaiming […]

Oconee Rural Fire Control reported a barn fire at 6 o’clock last night on the Old House Road in the Walhalla-West Union area.  No injuries resulted.

Some 25 volunteers in the program that stresses reading to Oconee County children at the youngest of ages takes place tomorrow, and its an event that the Baby Read founder, Caren von Hippel, says will serve as a fun event, but also a chance for Baby Read volunteers to network.  It’s a wine and cheese event.  This is an important […]

The co-founders of Seneca’s Thrift Brothers Inc. have been presented the highest and most prestigious honor for their support of the work of Tri-County Technical College.    The award Philanthropist of the Year is reserved for individuals, foundations, companies, trusts, organizations or other entities that have made a significant contribution–either cash or non-cash to the Tech Foundation.   And it goes […]

Chili and cornbread will make up the meal once again for the annual meeting of the Walhalla betterment organization Partners for Progress.  That meeting is 6 o’clock tonight at the Depot, and the public is invited.  There’s going to be word at this meeting on the plans underway to mark Oconee County’s 150th birthday.  The county’s sesquicentennial year is next […]