Category: News

District administrators have asked Oconee school trustees to approve a five-cent increase in the cost of student meals.  As proposed by Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent, the increase for both breakfast and student meals for students would start with the new school year August 17.  Prices for adult school meals are set by another government agency.  

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s resolution reaffirming the United States Senate’s commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was adopted by a 100-0 vote. “Article 5 states that an attack on one NATO nation is an attack on all,” said Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.  “This is an important founding principle of NATO and the concept […]

The written order by Judge McIntosh that denies a temporary restraining order for the legal opponents of Pioneer Rural Water is now part of the case file in the Oconee Court of Common Pleas.  Word came late last month that McIntosh ruled against Oconee County and the cities of Seneca and Westminster in their attempt to halt construction of the […]

Three zoning appeals are to be heard tonight by a regulatory board at Seneca.  The city board of appeals will hold hearings at City Hall starting at 6 o’clock.  The following appeals will be heard:  242 Lee Lane, applicant Flay Dalrymple; 716 By-Pass 123, property owner, Kishyam LLC; and 502 Loba Court, property owner Robert Loftin.      

A veterinary medical clinic at Seneca has announced plans to target a regional outbreak of dog flu, an infectious respiratory disease in dogs.  The viruses can be transmitted through saliva and directly from dog-to-dog through droplets from sneezing and coughing.  Seneca Animal Hospital, partnering with Merck Animal Health, will offer Dog Flu Vaccination Day Tuesday, June 20.  The facility says […]

Until the heavy rain arrived at mid afternon yesterday, workers moved dirt at the property for a Zaxby’s restaurant in Walhalla.  The location is SC 28 next to Scenic Chevrolet. Oconee officials say a grading permit has been issued and the builder’s permit is ready to be picked up.  The project has been nearly two years in the making.  Recently, […]

A former historic home at Walhalla, the Biemann-Hughs house that stood on S. College Street, has now been re-assembled as a home in Virginia.  The new owners, Scott Johnston and Suzy Neesen, had the parts shipped to Fauquier County, Virginia.  It was an approximate three-year job to put the house back in order.  Leslie White and the Oconee Heritage Center […]

Two Lake Jocassee kayakers are reported OK, but bad weather has forced them to ride out this afternoon’s storm.  Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Services said a search-and-rescue has been called off.  It had been a sunny day today on Jocassee until the sky turned dark and the rains came.  Heavy rain reported a few minutes ago at Devil’s Fork […]

Federal monies to help financially-strapped homeowners rebound from the Great Recession are credited with helping 88 Oconee County households avoid foreclosure.  Nearly $1.5 million of funds through the Treasury Department helped the homeowners stay in their homes.  The program is called South Carolina “HELP.”  Help stands for Homeownership and Employment Lending Program.  Since 2011, the program in South Carolina funded […]

Pickens County has three openings in its building codes department, one of which is created by the retirement of the chief inspector.  Jerald Wilson, county administrator, said this afternoon, however, the rumors are not true that his county is dismantling its building codes department—in a manner similar to what happened recently in Oconee County.