Category: News

The public this week gets a sneak preview of a new history museum in Seneca.  Ribbon-cutting at the Bertha lee Strickland Cultural Museum takes place 11:30 Thursday morning at 208 W-S 2nd Street.  A network of two houses, the museum will celebrate the Golden Corner’s rich African-American history and culture.  Until her death in 1971, Bertha Lee Strickland lived in […]

With heavy rain in the forecast tomorrow, Streetscape workers are back on the job today to pour sidewalk on the north side of Main Street.   Fort Hill is to finish the gas line work in front of Arby’s.  Striping will start between Tugaloo and Catherine.  Contractor Hutch ‘N Son requests that everyone pay attention to both entrances to the 4 […]

West-Oak High School has a new slate of pageant winners.  Morghen Davis emerged from Saturday night’s pageant with the title of Miss West-Oak.  Her court includes Carly Waldroup, Miss Senior; Kennedy Burton, Miss Junior; Zoe Corbett, Miss Sophomore; and Gracie Holbrooks, Miss Freshman.  During intermission, Price Ratliff was crowned Mr. West-Oak.   

Six additional drug suspects have been apprehended in what Oconee Sheriff’s Office calls “Operation Ice Chizel.”  Yesterday’s announcement states that the six bring to 14 the number of those who have been rounded up so far.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said, “This drug round-up is focused on our continued efforts to further disrupt the distribution and trafficking of methamphetamine in Oconee […]

The violence in the Middle East is thousands of miles from Oconee County’s front door.  But those who are being displaced from their countries are not likely to encounter a welcome mat in Oconee.  At its meeting tonight, there is to be first and final reading of a resolution to declare that the county will not take part in the […]

A South Carolina law makes certain students who left school without graduating eligible for that all-important diploma.  Oconee public schools want to locate those who qualify for diplomas under state act 155.  “We have tried to get the word out about this so that eligible students can apply before the December 31 deadline,” said Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent for operations.  […]

Oconee’s new airport director, Jeff Garrison, had hardly settled in when it came time last Saturday to handle airport operations on the day of the Clemson home game with Florida State.  It was a busy day.  The airport counted 58 planes in and out last Saturday—carrying fans of both teams.  One of the pilots questioned the price at which the […]

The police in Seneca say a 34-year old Walhalla man was arrested yesterday and charged in a one-month old burglary at a By-Pass 123 nightspot.  Law enforcement documents show the arrested man, John Cody Duncan, faces charges of burglary second degree, malicious damage and simple larceny.  A burglary alarm during the pre-dawn hours of October 13 alerted police to Mullen’s […]