Category: News

A leader in Oconee fire fighting, Scott Loftis, aspires to an office in a statewide organization. Loftis, assistant chief and training officer for the Oconee County Fire Department, has declared his candidacy for 4th Vice President of the South Carolina Firefighters’ Association. Delegates to the association will elect officers during a June conference at Myrtle Beach. In his letter of […]

The businessman who has earned the reputation of being one of America’a best will deliver a public lecture this month at Clemson University where he’s to share his insights on leadership. T. Boone Pickens’ will focus on how to become an effective leader at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon, April 18 at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts. The lecture […]

First-year Sheriff Mike Crenshaw speaks tonight to a meeting of the Oconee Republican Party. The meeting will take place at party headquarters in Seneca from 6 to 7, and everyone is invited.

The corporate and community education division at Tri-County Technical College launched its first Heavy Equipment Operator class since partnering with Blanchard Machinery, the exclusive Caterpillar dealer for South Carolina. The first students are set to complete the courses and enter the job market this month. Tech’s Mary Corley said as the equipment technology in the industry improves, there is also […]

Oconee County students and teachers return to the classrooms tomorrow. And when they do, according to Dr. Mike Lucas, Superintendent, it’ll mark the start of the final stretch of the school year. Lucas says, “These will be very busy weeks as teachers and students finish course content and begin the annual blitz of state and national assessments.”

Developers of the Clemson home development Patrick Square go before the city’s planning commission tonight for plat approvals for additional phases at the planned development project. Developers seek approval for 38 single-family residential lots and 22 townhouse residential lots. The meeting takes place at 6 in city council chambers.

Twenty residents of Oconee and Pickens counties delivered a signed “Medicaid Expansion” petition last week to State Senator Thomas Alexander. The petition contained more than 3,500 signatures. Alexander, the Oconee-Pickens senator from District One, met with the group Thursday in Walhalla for a discussion of the state legislature’s resistance to expand the program for those unable to buy regular insurance. […]

The long-awaited guaranteed maximum price for building the new Walhalla High School is to be announced tonight during the 6 o’clock meeting of the Oconee School Board of Trustees. According to the agenda for the trustees’ work session at district headquarters, the announcement will be made as part of the superintendent’s report by Dr. Mike Lucas. Previously, the project had […]

The Clemson University Forestry Club placed fifth overall out of 14 participating universities and captured top honors in several individual events at the 56th annual Association of Southern Forestry Clubs Forestry Conclave hosted by Auburn University.  John Bowers of Taylors and John Dunn of Easley took first place in photogrammetry and archery, respectively. Phillip Lewis of Martinsville, Va., and Jordan […]

The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental control says it’s Best Chance Network has been given over $76,000 in grant funding from the Lowcountry Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help provide mammograms to women in poverty.  Dianna Lydiard, DHEC’s Best Chance Network program coordinator, says early detection of breast cancer results in a 98% […]