Category: News

After a closed-door session, the Oconee County Council reached agreement to end years of squabbling with the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The county will now pay the sewer authority $1.9 million dollars.  That’s around three years worth of $610 thousand dollars of payments that the county held back as part of a dispute over a previous inter-government agreement that required […]

Westminster expects to save $100 thousand dollars by canceling a new software deal, but one council member is not happy.  After hearing that financial losses are projected for both general and utility accounts for the year ended June 30, the city council voted 4 to 2 last night to pull out of its contract for Harris Smart Fusion software update […]

An investment of more than $20.5 million dollars and 87 new jobs may be only the start for what the first tenants are going to bring to the Oconee Industry and Technology Park on SC 11.  Yesterday’s symbolic groundbreaking for a large building that will house two manufacturers took on an even greater celebratory tone when the company president/CEO said […]

A symbolic groundbreaking attracted a large crowd this afternoon to the Oconee Industrial and Technology Park, where a plastics operation is under construction.  The BMW car making plant may be 60 miles from Oconee, but the commitment by Baxter Manufacturing and High-Tech Mold Carolina to build in Oconee is seen as an example of a spinoff effect that benefits the […]

More than 5 million Americans live with Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is the sixth most common cause of death in the United States, and the only one of the top 10 without a cure or meaningful treatment. On November 3, in honor of National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, landmarks across the country and around the world will light up teal. Among […]

Oconee County Council is scheduled to take the second of three required readings tonight to a general obligation bond worth up to $16 million dollars.  The backup information to tonight’s agenda shows the purposes for which the county would apply the proceeds.  They are to defray costs of the following projects: a new Westminster magistrate building; the Oconee Workforce Development […]

Tomorrow will see the start of Clemson University classes for a new year.  And this morning the faculty, staff and student organization representatives marched into the Brooks Center for the Victor Hurst Convocation.  A woman who as a child stared into the sky above her southside Chicago neighborhood and dreamed of outer space keynoted the start of Clemson’s academic year. […]

  Free Wi-Fi is now available on the grounds of the old school  building in Fair Play.  The Oconee County Public Library is partnering with the Fair Oaks Youth Association, which is housing the equipment in the cafeteria building on the campus.  Fair Play joins Mountain Rest and Long Creek as sites where library Wi-Fi is available to connect electronic […]

At a special meeting this evening, West Union Town Council will consider trading in the police department’s pickup truck and replacing it with a fuel efficient car.  Mayor Linda Oliver says the truck was getting only nine miles a gallon.  Town Council meets at 5:30 at the Town Hall.

Thru new billboards, the Blood Connection (TBC) hopes to generate awareness about the need for all blood types leading up to a “Missing Types” Blood Drive that starts Thursday.  The Blood Connection hopes to encourage younger populations to roll up their sleeves.  Those in the business of ensuring that hospitals maintain an adequate supply of blood are worried that, as […]