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Tuesday next week is Special Election Day for the voters in Oconee County Council District Three. To be decided is who fills the remaining six and a half months of the term of the late Archie Barron. Andy Inabinet goes into the special election the only ballot candidate, and he does so having won a Republican Party special primary by […]

Tuesday next week is Special Election Day for the voters in Oconee County Council District Three. To be decided is who fills the remaining six and a half months of the term of the late Archie Barron. Andy Inabinet goes into the special election the only ballot candidate, and he does so having won a Republican Party special primary by […]

This is Peace Officers Memorial Day in Oconee County. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw has requested that all flags be flown half way to honor those in law enforcement who made the ultimate sacrifice.

At City Hall tonight in Seneca, the board of zoning appeals entertains a request to vary from the zoning ordinance. The applicant and property owners are Joel Rice and E Squared Ventures for property zoned highway commercial at 15684 Wells Highway. The hearing begins at 6 o’clock.

A report from the Department of Health and Environmental Control shows Oconee one of only three South Carolina counties to exceed the state recycling goal of 40% in fiscal year 2013. DHEC’s Solid Waste Management Annual Report was released this week. Oconee Solid Waste staff and users of the manned convenience centers reduced the amount of municipal solid waste that […]

A faculty member at the Hamilton Career Center has been proclaimed Teacher of the Year in the Oconee School District. The honor bestowed on Jonas Crooks came during an event yesterday afternoon at Walhalla High School. Eddie Chavis of Seneca Middle Schoo, Tammy Bramlettt of West-Oak Middle School and Stephanie Brewer of Tamassee-Salem Middle School were selected Honor Roll Teachers […]

Salem extends the welcome mat for the public to meet and hear the candidates this year for the area seat on Oconee County Council. The town’s political forum tomorrow night is reserved for Paul Corbeil and Edda Cammick, the two Republicans who meet for the District One seat in the June Republican primary. The forum will take place in the […]

After being approved by the Salem Town Council last night, Stephen Rochester joins the Salem Water Department as a new employee. Rochester started his new job today.  

Those who have a stake in the success of an Oconee County ballot proposition this fall intend to offer a united front when it comes to its passage. An example is the attitude taken by Danny Day, an assistant public defender who chairs the Oconee Library Board of Trustees. Day predicts that adding a penny to the sales tax charged […]

The government’s nuclear watchdog has scheduled an open house to discuss how well the Oconee Nuclear Station did its job in 2013. It’s an informal open house scheduled by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to take place 6 o’clock Thursday evening, May 22 at Duke’s World of Energy, and the public is invited. There will be information posters and NRC staff […]