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Part of highway 123 at Clemson will be off limits to traffic for a period of five hours early Sunday to allow construction crews to raise the cross beam for the Berkeley Drive walk-over bridge.  Between the hours of 8 am and 1 pm Sunday, 123 between SC 93 and Issaqueena Trail will be closed to thru traffic.  For the […]

Hartwell Village property once designated for a movie theatre apparently will see a restaurant and condominiums in its future.  In a transaction recorded this week in the Oconee Register of Deeds, Clemson Family Investors of Greenville acquired 7.6 acres from Casto, the real estate development company that owns most of the developable acreage at Hartwell Village.  The sale price was $6.2 […]

Next week’s regular meeting of Walhalla City Council will be a chance for the city leaders to further consider a formal program offering incentives for businesses to locate throughout the city.  Brent Taylor, the city administrator, says this program would cover the entire corporate limits–not just downtown.  Early last year Walhalla toyed with such a program when it proposed incentives to Bojangles […]

Those Oconeeans who were actively trying to find work during the last full month of summer had enough luck to create a drop in the countywide unemployment rate.  For August, the state Department of Employment and Workforce, reported a 4.5% unemployment rate, compared with 5.1% the month before.  The seasonally-adjusted rate for South Carolina inched higher in August to 4%..  […]

The mayors of Clemson, South Carolina and Louisville, Kentucky have a friendly wager riding on the outcome of tomorrow night’s ACC game.  If the Clemson Tigers emerge a winner, Clemson Mayor J-C Cook is to receive a collection of small bottles of bourbon from Louisville distilleries.  If the Louisville Cardinals win, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer is to receive a bottle […]

By 6 this morning, fewer than 400 customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative remained without service in Oconee County.  Across the Blue Ridge system, overnight crews restored service to about 100 customers.  Rested crews today will be sent to the field to deal with what’s left.

The manager of Destination Oconee will be a welcome visitor to the next meeting of the West Union Town Council.  Janet Hartman will present a check to town leaders for their town’s part in a recent litter clean-up project.  The town council meets at 6 Monday evening at the Town Hall.

On or before the noon hour today, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative expects all remaining outages in its four counties to have been eliminated.  By late last night, only two Pickens County customers were left without service; 479 in Oconee.  Any storm-related outages are to be addressed today by rested crews.

To the eye, nothing stands out special about an industrial steel building near the main campus of Clemson.  But it’s the place that civil engineers study the damaging effects of high-speed winds–just like those that blew through the region Monday, courtesy of Tropical Storm Irma.  By measuring wind pressures and the structural integrity of building designs, the engineers at the […]

A judge in Walhalla said no this afternoon to an appeal to lower the bond of a Seneca man arrested early last month on multiple charges in an Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation of child sex abuse.  Calvin Carroll Cochran of S. Gate Drive is being held in jail on 12 charges of criminal sexual conduct with a minor third degree and disseminating […]