Category: News

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says a West-Oak High School Student died Thursday afternoon after collapsing at school. Addis says 18 year-old Sierra Jaid Sims, of Westminster, died after sustaining cardiac arrest in the Emergency Department of GHS-Oconee Memorial Hospital. EMS was dispatched to the school at 12:06 PM Thursday after Sierra collapsed upon entering her chorus classroom. She was […]

The Salem police have confirmed the arrest this week of a 27-year old woman charged with obtaining money by false pretense. Chief Dave Poulson said the woman arrested on Tuesday, Cassie Marie Owens of Tamassee, has been released from jail and ordered to appear in Municipal Court April 15. Owens’ arrest came after more than one month investigation of an […]

Wireless technology has reached one of Oconee’s rural outposts, and the president of Long Creek Community Club says Wi-Fi is certainly welcomed and needed. Chanda Morrison says Wi-Fi on the grounds of the community club on highway 76 gives the public there access to the internet from inside the building or from sitting in a car in the parking lot. […]

 Oconee Sheriff’s Office announced additional charges this morning against a 17-year old Walhallan, who was jailed over the weekend as the result of a fatal car accident on highway 11. Jordan Scott Tilson was arrested Sunday on charges of felony driving under the influence. He is now charged with distributing marijuana and Oxycodone. According to narcotics agents, an undercover operative […]

Dr. Michael Thorsland, Oconee superintendent of education, took time this week to praise a select number of students for their selfless acts that have impressed others. Thorsland spoke about the actions that are encouraging to him at two venues—Monday night’s school board meeting and a meeting the following morning with the working press. One had to do with a skilled […]

A Lexington woman visited Washington this week as the state’s ambassador to help generate money for research efforts to find a cure for cancer. Megan Hicks works for the South Carolina Tobacco-Free Collaborative and, when we spoke to her Tuesday morning, she was getting ready for a day to meet staff members of senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott. Some […]

Chairman Wayne McCall of Oconee County Council has issued a public appeal. The county has been unable to generate sufficient interest to fill seats on a pair of boards needed to help with the flow of county business. The committee that sets policy for the county’s scenic highway efforts is in need of one member. And the Conservation Bank Board […]

Seven social service agencies in Oconee County will share $30 thousand in emergency food and shelter money. The local board that governs how that money is spent met Tuesday and approved allotments to the following organizations: to the Oconee Presbyterian Service Fund for utility assistance; to Golden Harvest, for food assistance; to the Salvation Army, for utilities assistance; to Golden […]

Clemson University will move its graduation ceremonies to Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville beginning with the August 7 ceremony and continuing through the August 2016 graduation. Major renovation to Littlejohn Coliseum makes the move necessary. Clemson Athletics also announced that the men’s basketball team will play its 2015-16 schedule at the Greenville arena. The women’s basketball and volleyball games […]

 On a sunny and warm late winter day the Oconee Sheriff’s Office started its spring litter pickup campaign. Inmates from the Detention Center, supervised by Corp. Tim Rice, picked up trash on highway 11—south between Mountain Road and highway 123. Rice, the county’s environmental services officer, also led the inmates to pick up trash Tuesday on Camp Road near Five […]