Category: News

Inside industrial park property on SC 11, the temperature this morning will start its climb to the 90-degree mark, but what happens there is going to be a happy occasion–no matter how hot or sticky the weather will be.  Ground is to be broken at 10 this morning for the Tri-County Technical College project to build its Oconee County campus.  […]

Once again, it will cost more to enroll at Clemson, though the university says this tuition increase is the smallest for South Carolina residents in two decades.  The new academic year opens next month.  Yesterday the trustees approved a 2.75% tuition increase for full-time students.  Out of state under-graduate tuition will increase by 4.25%, OR $727 dollars a semester.  Starting […]

School resource officers from the Oconee Sheriff’s Office have been recognized with the 2017 South Carolina Exemplary School Resource Officers Program Award.  Thru a vetting process, the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission made the selection.  The Oconee program was one of only two in South Carolina to be recognized.  Evie Hughes, director of student services for Oconee schools, said the […]

With the students on summer break and football practice not yet started, Clemson is a quieter place these days.  But that’ll last for only a few more weeks.  A question that arises is that with university enrollment increasing and a number of building projects finishing, to what extent does traffic worsen once the new school year arrives.  Rick Cotton, city […]

Sen. Graham spoke before the Foreign Relations Committee on the bill he introduced to end the Palestinian Authority’s practice of rewarding terrorists and their families who kill Americans and Israeli citizens.  Force, a U-S Army veteran, was stabbed to death in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist.  The Palestinians Authority praised Force’s killer as a “heroic martyr.”

Matters related to economic development and building codes are on the agenda for next week’s Oconee Council meeting.  In title only, there’s first reading of an ordinance for a fee-in-place-of-tax agreement for the code-named “Project Maxwell.”  That project has been referred to as an existing Oconee-based firm looking to grow in Oconee instead of at its international location.  The council is […]

Someone in Seneca spray-painted references to what did or did not happen in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.  What appears to be the outline of an alien, accompanied by the name “Roswell” and “70”, showed up this week on the side of a building at the corner of N. 1st and Oak streets.  The police yesterday said the incident had not […]

Senator Lindsey Graham indicates Christopher Wray has qualities that would help make him a strong FBI director, but Graham questioned Wray yesterday on what kind of coordination, if any, there was between Russia and the Trump campaign.  The South Carolina Republican’s office released this exchange:  Graham: “Let me ask you this. if I got a call from somebody saying the […]

“Not yet. Still out investigating.”  That’s the response by Shane Gibbs, the Oconee County Fire Marshall, yesterday afternoon to the question of whether a cause had been determined for the fire that put Mountain View Steak and Seafood out of business.

West Union needs a new police officer.  Mayor Linda Oliver says her town looks to hire a patrol officer.