Category: News

The Clemson Welcome Back Festival raised $18,700 for student scholarships this year.  Visitors to the August 23 festival lined the streets, sampled food, and shopped for merchandise from 92 participating vendors

West Union has chosen a Westminster policeman to be its next Chief of Police.  Mayor Linda Oliver says she will administer the oath Friday to Josh Eppes.  He will fill the vacancy created by the recent death of Charles Sanders.  Eppes is a son of Mike Eppes, a former West Union chief.  Westminster Chief Rory Jones wishes Eppes well.  Jones […]

If you are an Oconee education professional interested in making the most, the place to be is a job at the Pine Street district headquarters.  Ten Oconee School District administrators pull down salaries of at least $100 thousand dollars a year or more.  The salaries of several other administrators approach the $100 thousand mark.  Oconee teachers draw less than $100 […]

Seneca is asking the Common Pleas Court to throw out a lawsuit that names as defendant the police records department.  The plaintiff, Timothy Wayne Harmon, alleges he filed a Freedom of Information request for “all agency documents” related to an incident report, but was denied although he left a hand-delivered letter with the records division July 28.  The records department, […]

A recent job fair held at Seneca’s Shaver complex attracted about 600 hopefuls for about 250 jobs.  Richard Blackwell of the Oconee Economic Alliance says the jobs started at entry level and ranged upward.  And some manufacturers, he says, report they’ve already hired some of the applicants.  A sign that the job fair was going to work came early when […]

An airlift for medical attention was required yesterday in the vicinity of the Foothills Trail, north of Mountain Rest, for an individual who apparently was part of a crew removing trees and debris created by Tropical Storm Irma.  Crews from Mountain Rest Fire and Rescue went to the Big Bend area on the Chattooga River and required five hours to […]

The offices of coroner and the Oconee Sheriff are investigating a weekend death at Seneca.  Coroner Karl Addis said a 21-year old man was found dead at 205 D Street.  There will be an autopsy today on the body of Michael Dale Elgin.

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 […]