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A fire that started in a bedroom has taken a heavy toll in Keowee Key. Yesterday morning’s fire at 2 Calm Sea Drive, near the North entrance to the home development, broke out around 7:30. Two adults got out of the house safely, but the fire killed two pets. The American Red Cross is assisting the fire victims. Chief Richie […]

The roads and bridges have a salty look to them this morning. Ahead of the forecast winter event, South Carolina DOT crews—especially those in the Upstate—began anti-icing pre-treating operations yesterday. Crews in other parts of the state remain on standby. Those pre-treating operations in the Upstate will continue this morning and anticipate a switch to a response mode by this […]

Late into the night, crews worked diligently to correct problems caused by yesterday’s intense high winds. Fire Chief Charlie King of Oconee County Emergency Services says the winds brought down trees, sparked brush fires, and blocked roadways late Saturday night. Multiple incidents were reported in Keowee-Key, Newry, Westminster and Seneca. As of 2:45 Sunday afternoon, power had been restored to […]

Oconee County Fire Chief Charlie King says the Keowee Fire Department responded to a residential fire around 7:30 Sunday morning. The Keowee Fire Department, along with units from Keowee Ebeneezer Fire Department, Corinth Shiloh Fire Department, Salem Fire Department, and Station 21 responded to the fire at the residence located at #2 Calm Sea Drive, located inside the North Entrance […]

This evening’s wind is causing more than chilly temperatures. Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander says the City of Seneca is experiencing a number of outages. There are a number of traffic lights which are not functioning, at a number of major intersections. Severe winds are expected to plague the area throughout the night with wind chills expected to fall well below […]

An 87 year old Townville woman was the victim of a traffic accident Friday afternoon accident at the intersection of Highway 11 and Isbell Road in Fair Play. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis says 87 year old Mildred M. Cox of West Pine Grove Road, Fair Play died Friday afternoon at the emergency department at AnMed Medical Center in Anderson. […]

Clemson University’s Dr. Roy Jones, speaking today in Seneca, laid out the importance for the nationwide Call Me Mister program, but he also showed his audience his acumen for African-American history. Call Me Mister is about “Saving the Black Male.” Call Me Mister educates young black males and points them to careers as elementary school teachers. It’s in those early […]

When vandals inflicted their damage to the bathroom at the Walhalla Swimming Pool, they were spoiling some of the hard work that many volunteers and others put in to help restore the pool as the only publicly-operated municipal swim pool left in Oconee County. The damage to the men’s bathroom will run into the thousands of dollars, according to Police […]

You can travel back in time tomorrow in Oconee County, by sampling the fare at a frontier encampment. The event takes place 10 a-m to 3 p-m at the Oconee Station State Historic Site near Walhalla. There, re-enactors will show what it was like after the American Revolution when the historic Oconee Station was a frontier outpost. The property today […]

Construction has started on the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum, Seneca’s African-American museum. In the meantime, Seneca’s Shelby Henderson is recommending people take the time to see a new exhibit in the nearby Lunney Museum. “It’s ‘Breaking Barriers—African-Americans in Space’” she told the mayor and city council this week.