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The bodies of two Pickens County teenagers have been recovered from Lake Hartwell near Central.  The coroner’s office says the deaths of Zakaria Chaar, 15, of Central and Ryan Alnasser, 16, of Clemson are under investigation as drownings.  The death scene was Pike Road and Six Mile Highway, Central.

The opening of a new Seneca restaurant — and its offer of free coffee for the first 100 customers — has brought out the crowds this morning.  Parking is at a premium this morning in and around the new Dunkin Donuts on the 123 Bypass.

If you are going to the Oconee County School Board meeting tonight, keep in mind the meeting location.  The first agenda that went out incorrectly gave Seneca Middle School as the location; however, the meeting at 6 tonight will be at the regular spot, district headquarters in Walhalla.

Projected Oconee County spending on public education is moving higher.  Jay Schickling, the district’s finance officer in a letter Friday to the superintendent, says in his further analysis, he has revised some of the district’s vacant positions to reflect a middle-of-the-pay scale for the potential hires, in place of entry-level salary.  It means, Schickling wrote, that the new district budget […]

It’s time for Oconee’s five school trustees to re-evaluate the district superintendent.  The evaluation, along with contract considerations, of Dr. Michael Thorsland takes place tonight during the executive session of the school board’s regular May meeting.

Chairman Matthew Durham of Oconee County Council says the November General Election is a better time for Corinth-Shiloh voters to decide the referendum for a special tax district than the middle of summer.  That is why, Durham says, he has decided that at tomorrow night’s council meeting there’ll be a resolution to set the referendum for November 5, in place […]

A 52-year-old Townville man was killed early yesterday in the wreck of a pickup truck.  The coroner and the state patrol said the accident that took the life of David Allen Hauser occurred around 1:30 in the morning at O’Neal Ferry Road and Watson Road.  Greg Shore, the Anderson coroner, says the preliminary investigation shows Mr. Hauser, the driver, and […]

Seven Oconee County rural and municipal roads and streets have made the state’s next pavement improvement program.  The DOT Commission yesterday approved the 2025 pavement program by adding another $719 million funds. This is the 8th year of an accelerated program, and the commissioners’ action yesterday adds another 727 miles of roads.  Oconee motorists should see improvements to the following:  […]

The DOT has filled some of potholes on a heavily-traveled secondary road near Seneca, but according to a member of Oconee’s State “C” Fund Committee, the results leave something to be desired.  The “C” Fund Committee’s Dick Cottingham yesterday pressed the DOT’s Randy Russell to re-examine the Old Seneca-Clemson Highway.  The section that Cottingham believes needs further work is that […]