Category: News

Last night’s public input meeting in Mountain Rest is being described as lively and well-attended.  Residents there showed an interest in details for new trail development within the area of Stumphouse Tunnel and Park.  A second such meeting to focus on the Palmetto Trail spur from Devil’s fork to Oconee Station takes place 6 to 8 tonight at the Salem […]

New stripes on a three and one-third mile stretch of highway 188 in Oconee County is being seen as a sign that there are no imminent plans to re-surface the two-lane roadway.  A contractor recently patched the stretch of highway as part of a rehabilitative maintenance project.  Josh Makison, resident DOT construction engineer, says his office is unaware of any […]

The contractor has returned today to South Carolina 24 to apply a second coat of asphalt, and the state’s resident construction engineer for the DOT predicts that motorists soon will enjoy a smoother ride on 24 from Crossroads to the Anderson County line.  

The Colonial Pipeline leak pushed prices higher in much of the Southeast.  According to the motor club AAA Carolinas, the Carolinas topped the country’s list of largest weekly increases.  South Carolina saw a seven-cent increase.  The average in the Palmetto State stood Monday at $2.11.  The pipeline issues also caused Georgia to make what AAA called an unusual showing on […]

Oconee School District calls attention to bright spots from the recently released AP, Advanced Placement scores.  AP classes are considered the most difficult classes available to high school students.  “We were especially glad to see an increase in number of AP tests given,” said Dr. Michael Thorsland, district superintendent. “This shows us the level of potential present in our students.  […]

For his Eagle Badge project, a Clemson Boy Scout would like to see a patch of beauty at the corner of property that thrived as a textile plant for about 100 years.  Nick Leeper of Troop 235 wants to build a half dozen garden boxes at Hope Avenue and Jamerson Avenue in Utica.  Nick says thru an arrangement with the […]

  After a closed door meeting, Seneca leaders named five people to a regulatory board which rarely, if ever, has met.  City Attorney Michael Smith says the board of the Construction Maintenance and Aesthetics Board of Adjustment is in place to hear appeals involving decisions by the city’s building code department.  Appointed to the board were David Gulley, Brad Lecroy, […]

An economic development meeting takes places at 6:30 tomorrow night at the Westminster Fire Department.  Everyone interested in seeing a better Westminster is invited.  City Councilwoman Susan Ramey says Mayor Brian Ramey needs help with a project that he is working on.  Another topic for tomorrow night’s meeting is the Freedom of Information Act.

Fire during the midnight hour south of Seneca destroyed a poultry house.  There was no immediate word this morning whether there were any chickens inside the building.  The fire occurred on SC 24 near 59, inside the fire protection district of the Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department.

Seneca has achieved an improved rating for its fire protection district.  At City Hall last night, city administrator Greg Dietterick announced that after an evaluation the I-S-O—the Insurance Services Office—had dropped the city’s rating from a 3 to 2.  The lower the rating the greater the potential for insurance companies to lower the premiums of their policyholders.  At the meeting, […]