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Walhalla’s Scott Parris, chairman of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority, can see possibilities in a request from Scott Moulder, the Oconee County administrator. Moulder is pursuing a change in an inter-government agreement, as a way to free up hundreds of thousands of dollars a year which the county could use to pay for sewer projects. “I think it is […]

To combat crime and traffic violations, Oconee Sheriff’s Department has begun license checkpoints in various parts of the county. They began last Friday, and Chief Deputy Kevin Davis predicts these checkpoints will set up about two or three times a month. The Sheriff’s office, aware that 23 traffic fatalities occurred in 2012, is interested in curbing accidents. According to Davis, […]

A 34-year old Fair Play man has been arrested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Department and charged with burglary second degree and petty larceny. Sheriff’s officers yesterday morning arrested Matthew Flint Patterson, as part of an investigation of an area resident’s complaint that his home was broken into during a two-week period between January 15 and February 1. The resident said […]

Construction jobs, permanent jobs, large tax payments. That’s what the lead spokesman for Sanctuary Pointe says Oconeeans and South Carolinians can expect from their 325-acre planned development on an I-85 peninsula leaded by the Army Corps of Engineers to the South Carolina PRT—and then subleased to Sanctuary Pointe LLC. At the end of last night’s public information meeting, Sanctuary Pointe’s […]

Nearly 250 people squeezed into the South Union Baptist Church for the first public meeting on the Sanctuary Pointe project in southern Oconee County. Developer Elmon Henry, identified as one of the five principals in the project, explained his group’s master plan during a 90-minute meeting, the last part of which was devoted to a lively q-and-a with the audience. […]

In a few days, Oconee Medical Center implements a new information technology system for medical records. Hunter Kome, vice president for OMC operations, says the switch to Paragon takes place Monday, with practice the rest of the week. The new system will make OMC eligible for federal stimulus funds to help offset the costs to switch. The goal will be […]

In the parking lot of a Seneca apartment complex this morning, a sanitation truck hit a parked Oconee school bus, according to a school district official. This morning’s accident at Seneca Gardens Apartments at Hillcrest Drive and Fairfield Road was described by Dr. Michael Thorsland, assistant superintendent for school district operations. No one reported injured. All students aboard the bus […]

A committee is being formed at Oconee Medical Center for the purpose of nominating candidates for the hospital board of directors. Jeanne Ward, president/CEO at last night’s board meeting, said she is in the process of wrapping up members for the nomination committee. That committee’s duty will be to recommend hospital board members to cover Districts 1, 3, and 5. […]

State troopers report three traffic accidents in Oconee County during the 7 o’clock hour this morning: at 7:01 on U-S 123 and Tasha Drive; at 7:16 on Fairfield Road; and at 7:35 on Return Church Road.

A report heard last night by the board at Oconee Medical Center showed the hospital, for a fifth straight month, recorded a positive bottom line. And that, according to hospital financial officer Kevin Herbert, comes even though net patient revenues were 8.7% below expectations for February. The gain over expense amounted to about $867 and a half thousand dollars. Hunter […]