Category: News

Oconee County appears to be in line for a hit of more than two and a half million dollars in this year’s Duke Energy tax bill. County Auditor Ken Nix this morning announced the state’s 2014 assessment of the electric utility’s holdings in Oconee dropped from $132.5 million in 2013 to 118.6 million for 2014. But Nix says the decrease […]

A West-Oak High School graduate has been killed in a car accident in Abbeville County. Authorities have identified Jonathan McClure as the victim of last evening’s accident. Corp. Gary Miller of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the highway 178 accident involved a Mini Cooper that hit a utility pole and then a culvert. The 34-year old McClure was a […]

Two charges against defendant Carrie Leigh Tyner top the docket for a term this week of the Oconee General Sessions Court. The docket calls for the state to present armed robbery and assault and battery second degree charges against Tyner. Court opens this morning, with 10th Circuit Judge Lawton McIntosh presiding.

A van jumped the curb this morning at the South Carolina Welcome Center in Fair Play and damaged the structure for the vending machines. According to responders, the driver was sent to the hospital to be evaluated. A second person was momentarily trapped in the wreckage, but declined medical attention. According to Fair Play Fire Department, the damage to the […]

A regional business publication has published an article and a photograph of a new industry park, which is a joint venture of both Seneca and Oconee County. And those city and county leaders in charge of developing Seneca Rail Site are pleased by the attention the project has drawn in the current GSA Business publication. Richard Blackwell, for example, says […]

The public is being asked to look out for an Anderson woman reported missing by her family several years ago.  She’s Faith Gwen McLane.  Her last contact with her family came in October 2007 when McLane was at 700 North Murray Avenue in Anderson–possibly in the company of a man who may have been a long-distance truck driver.  The National […]

State troopers are reporting an accident involving injuries at 10:13 this morning on I-85 southbound near the state’s Welcome Center at Fair Play.

Walhalla City Councilwoman and Oconee Red Cross Chapter leader Kathy Rogers died Friday afternoon after a battle with cancer. Rogers died the day after an interview aired on the “Golden Corner’s Morning Show” with Wayne Morton and other local musicians and friends of Rogers who had organized a tribute concert for Saturday night in Walhalla. Morton told host Kris Butts the […]

A national newspaper reports that complications have arisen over Medtronic’s effort to buy Covidien, and Oconee’s economic development recruiter admits the complications don’t bode well for the county to convince the buyer to keep the seller’s plant operating near Seneca. But Richard Blackwell says it hasn’t stopped Oconee’s effort to hold onto the long-time maker of medical products. The Wall […]

A passenger on a moped required emergency hospital treatment this afternoon after an accident at a Seneca traffic light intersection. The police say the accident occurred late this morning when the moped bumped a car that had come to a stop at a red light at Wells Highway and S. Radio Station Road.