Category: News

Blue Ridge Bank seeks to fill the void that First Citizens will create next week in Westminster.  According to a newspaper legal ad, Blue Ridge has asked the FDIC to be allowed to open a branch office at 200 W. Windsor Street.  In a notice to First Citizens customers, area executive Chuck Perry said, “After carefully and thoroughly evaluating the […]

  During an annual luncheon, the Seneca Rotary Club recognized the top academic achievers in grades six through twelve in the Seneca public schools.  And, by offering cash awards to graduating seniors, the club meets the purpose and intent of its program by encouraging students to strive for academic excellence each year.  The following five gradating Seneca seniors shared in […]

Lawyers have shed their suit jackets today in the stuffy 4th floor courtroom at the Oconee Courthouse in Walhalla.  An air conditioning system failure means no air conditioning, and the immediate question that arises is whether the county will be able to have the system repaired or whether it will face a bill of having to replace the A-C.   […]

Governor Henry McMaster is among leaders who today are extending official thanks to Itron for the manufacturer’s decision to add 100 jobs to its complex on highway 11 at West Union.  Word has been confirmed that Itron is moving its natural gas meter line from Kentucky to its West Union location.  An $8 million investment of new capital is planned.  […]

A jury was prepared to hear testimony, but an Oconee County criminal court defendant decided to plead guilty.  The plea, from Jeremy Stephen Black, to a pair of charges yesterday brought a sentence of three years in prison, suspended to one year and one year probation.  Black pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle and distribution, possession with intent […]

  Over the next two years, Oconee’s State “C” Fund Committee will commit $391 thousand dollars to re-build an entrance road to the county’s Golden Corner Commerce Park.  After a presentation this morning by Richard Blackwell of the Economic Alliance, the committee committed the funds.  Blackwell announced that, with support of the County Council, his office is completing a loan […]

Fire damaged a room inside a Westminster home.  Chief Chris Smith said the fire department was called around 3:30 yesterday afternoon to 206 Grayson Drive.  No one was hurt and, Smith said, no one home at the time of the fire.

Five Walhalla High seniors are the first Oconee County students to earn mechatronics certification through a dual credit agreement with Tri-County Technical College.  The students are Chase Gagnon, Dylan Campbell, Chase Bentz, Michael Lefler and Jacob Ledbetter. They completed tuition-free dual credit courses at the Hamilton Career Center and will graduate high school with their Technical Operators Certification and will have […]

A student at the Seneca Middle School won the teen category of a poetry contest sponsored by the Pickens County Library System to celebrate National Poetry Month in April.  Gunnison Alexander’s winning poem, “Dragon,” netted him a $50 dollar cash prize.  Gunnison and two other Seneca Middle finalists in the competition, Rose Haynes and Jacari Teague, were encouraged to participate […]

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Burglary to a residence located at 115 Cherokee Trail in the Dacusville community that occurred Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Surveillance cameras at the home captured images of an unknown male approaching the residence on a bicycle moments before he forced entry into an outbuilding at approximately 8:15am. The male was then seen […]