Category: News

  Sen. Lindsey Graham opened a Washington hearing this afternoon to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U-S election.  Graham indicates he has no doubts that it happened.  “I think every American should be concerned with what the Russians did,” he said.  Graham chairs the Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

  The program is set for this year’s Oconee Democratic Party fundraiser.  This one will take place next month and serve as the 5th annual such event.  Paulette Keffas-Chassin, party chair, is confident that the program, with a mix of good food, music, and speakers, will make for an enjoyable evening from 5 to 8 pm Sunday, June 4 at […]

Since 1999, First Steps has helped families and caregivers across South Carolina ensure children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.  Many children and their families have benefited from the local programs and services that have been offered.  To help First Steps reach the goal to meet the needs of every child in Oconee County, a series of Community Town […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has announced multiple charges, including second degree burglary, against two women who were arrested early yesterday at an Oakway Road address.  The Sheriff’s Office identified the arrested as 55 year old Deborah Jane McKinley of Anderson and 44 year old Crystal Lynn Swaney of Fair Play.  A deputy became suspicious of the presence of a car […]

If approved, the next Oconee school budget will approach the $100 million dollar neighborhood.  The latest projections are for public school spending in Oconee to hit the mark of $97 million—-a little more than $3.5 million from the current year.  The county trustees will accept comments and questions about the budget proposal during their 6 o’clock meeting tonight at district […]

A Pickens County motorcyclist has died of injuries suffered in a downtown Seneca accident.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis recorded the death from a head injury of Liberty resident Randy Holliday at 4 am Saturday at Greenville Memorial Hospital.  Holliday was 63 years old.  He was in an accident involving a Ford around 3 o’clock Tuesday afternoon last week at the […]

Clemson University will present approximately 3,200 degrees in four commencement ceremonies this week in Littlejohn Coliseum. There will be two ceremonies each on Thursday and Friday. There also will be a Doctoral Hooding Ceremony at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts where more than 70 Ph.D. graduates will receive hoods in honor of attaining the highest level […]

Thomas Strange, senior director of Research and Development for Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) in Liberty, will deliver Tri-County Technical College’s spring commencement address. The ceremony will be held Tuesday, May 9, at 6 p.m. at the T. Ed Garrison Arena located off Highway 76, Pendleton. Approximately 664 students will be awarded degrees, diplomas and/or certificates during the College’s commencement.  […]

If you have to travel to Atlanta on a regular basis you will be happy to learn the Georgia Department of Transportation predicts that the collapsed section of I-85 should be repaired by the end of the month. G-DOT officials say the work is ahead of schedule and the section of the Interstate near the Piedmont Road exit should be […]

Clemson University’s Historic Properties and the Andrew Pickens chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, are hosting a celebration this month of the porch restoration at the historic Hopewell Plantation.  The event will be 1 p.m. Saturday, May 20. History professor Rod Andrew, author of “The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder” will […]