Category: News

A state agency’s evaluation finds logic in Pioneer Water District’s intent to build its first treatment plant. As required by legislation signed into law by Governor Haley last year, Pioneer Water authorized an accountant to conduct an independent audit. In turn, as required by law, that audit was forwarded for review by the South Carolina Office of Regulatory Staff. The […]

An Oconee planning commissioner helps lead an education webcast arranged today by the South Carolina Association of Counties. The part played by commissioner Gwen McPhail, an Oconee agriculture businesswoman, centers on agricultural issues in land use: “All of South Carolina is developing rapidly, the population is growing, and there is no more land out there, so if we are going […]

Big-ticket spending items await action during next week’s meeting of the Oconee County Council. County staff recommends the approval of a second, 5-year renewal of a deal to haul waste to a transfer station at a landfill in Homer, Georgia. The contract amount to be paid Waste Management is estimated at $1.1 million. And the Volunteer Picket Post/Camp Oak Fire […]

A man in a home near Salem required a medical helicopter transport last night for injuries in a crushing-type accident. Those injuries are said to have been suffered when a granite counter cover fell on the man at a home on Quarter Mile Road near north highway 11. He was flown to a Greenville hospital. At an opposite side of […]

The South Carolina House once again passed a bill to re-structure government. Today’s 91-23 vote went along party lines. Oconee’s two members, Republicans Bill Whitmire and Bill Sandifer, voted with the majority. Supporters of the bill claim it places Executive Branch functions directly under the Governor’s control, breaks up the quasi-Executive/Legislative Budget and Control Board, and would save taxpayers’ money. […]

A Relay for Life cancer event will close a two-block section of Walhalla’s Main Street between the hours 9 o’clock Friday morning and 9 o’clock Saturday morning. City Administrator Nancy Goehle says the two blocks affected are Main Street, from Ann to Katherine streets. The police will direct motorists to the detour.

A celebration is planned this weekend in a section of Oconee County known for its tradition and history. A 100-year event to mark both the school and the community takes place 1 to 4 Saturday afternoon at Keowee Elementary School on SC 188. Among the highlights of the party will be documents and memorabilia from the time the original school […]

A state senator from Kershaw County who has ambitions to be Governor will make an Oconee County appearance next month at an event at South Cove Park. Democrat Vincent Sheheen recently announced his 2014 gubernatorial candidacy. As featured speaker on the evening of Sunday, June 2, Sheheen will help raise money for the Oconee Democratic Party. The event, from 5 […]

An attorney on behalf of Oconee County has asked the Common Pleas Court to throw out a lawsuit filed last winter against the Oconee Detention Center, alleging a slip and fall incident. The lawsuit for Undre Randolph alleges that on July 14, 2011 Randolph, while on crutches, slipped, tripped, and fell on water in a hallway as he was headed […]

Anyone headed north on I-85 from Georgia into South Carolina can tell there’s something to be desired at Exit 1 beyond the Welcome Center. Motorists first notice the Welcome Center. Beyond it, however, is the interstate exit itself. And Thomas Alexander, the state senator, says the property controlled there by South Carolina can stand some enhancement. Alexander envisions a partnership […]