Category: News

In support of tomorrow’s “Great Oconee Clean Up,” 11 Duke Energy workers collected more than 40 bags of trash today along SC 130 and 183 near the Oconee Nuclear Station.

A 66-year old man has been placed under arrest in Oconee County, charged with manufacturing marijuana.  A state DNR officer requested a deputy’s presence on Virginia Drive near the LeCroy Road.  According to the Sheriff’s Office, marijuana plants growing on the property and a quantity of marijuana from inside the home were seized.  Dennis Dale Deaton of Virginia Drive was […]

Someone apparently keyed a van in the parking lot of the Seneca Wal-Mart, and the Oconee Sheriff’s Office requests the public’s help to solve the vandalism incident.  It occurred during the early morning hours of January 20.  Scratches were found on both sides of  a 2016 Nissan NV 3500 van.  If you have any information, you are asked to call […]

Entertainment tonight at the Westminster Music Center downtown will serve as a fundraiser for the West-Oak High School Band program.  Band supporter Bob Moir says performing tonight will be the Dixie Keys of Oconee County along with a jazz group from the Governor’s School.  That jazz group features former West-Oak student Roman Holder who has since performed at the Vatican. […]

The Seneca Rotary Club recently announced its April 2017 Students of the Month for the Seneca area schools. Pictured from left to right, Nyterious Bradley (Blue Ridge Elementary), Andy Inabinet, Cheyenne Morrow (Northside Elementary), Sandra McCall, Shaynah Lee (Seneca High), Earnestine Williams, Luz Galindo-Sanchez (Ravenel Elementary), Wayne Gallimore, and Raul Ordonez-Martinez (Ravenel Elementary, student for March)

Tri-County Technical College’s spring concert will feature selections tonight from current and modern Broadway hits. The Tech Chorus and Jazz Band will present its annual spring concert at 7 p.m. in the Marshall Parker Auditorium on the Pendleton Campus.  The concert is free and open to the public.  Although the concert is free, donations to the College’s Music Scholarship Fund […]

The finance and facilities committee of the Clemson University board of trustees recommended yesterday to university leadership that the location for the planned Duke Energy combined heat and power (CHP) facility be moved fromthe original proposed site on the eastern edge of the Clemson campus to a location removed from residential neighborhoods adjacent to the university. The committee action is […]

Oconee County residents Bart and Marcela McCartin spent part of their work careers as private chefs for Canada’s prime minister for a two and a half year period.  Bart came out of retirement in the Cliffs’ home development to lend a hand to an aspect of Salem’s charter school that helps offset school food costs and advances the school philosophy […]

Public safety responders were busy durng the night in Westminster.  A barn/storage structure caught fire on Long Drive near Hobson Street.  A power line and trees fell on Johnson Street.  In Walhalla, a power line and tree fell on Holloway Street.

A Pickens woman, Martha Wardlaw, held last night’s lucky ticket to win a 2007 Ford F-15 pickup.  The truck was the grand prize during the annual meeting of the members of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative.  Blue Ridge estimates the crowd exceeded 6,000 and 2,816 people registered as members.  A blend of Gospel and Bluegrass music provided the entertainment for […]