Category: News

U-S Forest Service in Oconee County announced plans this morning for a prescribed burn today in Mountain Rest, at Russell Farms. The prescribed burn is to cover 73 acres and, according to a USFS spokesman, will begin late this morning.

A 25-year old man Clemson was convicted this week of burglary first degree, armed robbery, conspiracy, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number and sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to the prosecutor’s office, Larold Lee Morris and another man entered a student’s apartment in Central, held the student at gunpoint, and stole a variety of […]

A 25-year old Clemson was convicted this week of burglary first degree, armed robbery, conspiracy, and possession of a weapon with an obliterated serial number and sentenced to 25 years in prison. According to the prosecutor’s office, Larold Lee Morris and another man entered a student’s apartment in Central, held the student at gunpoint, and stole a variety of items. […]

An 86-year old Oconeean brought to court in a wheelchair has been certified by a state doctor as  incompetent to stand trial on two murder charges. But Circuit Judge Cordell Maddox decided yesterday that, for the time being, he is going to hold up a process that could lead to defendant Nicholas Bonelli being institutionalized. Maddox said he first wants […]

A man and his truck took an unexpected turn into Lake Hartwell late yesterday afternoon. Robert Robbs of Seneca managed to free himself and get out of the water, but his pick-up remained in water for about three hours before a heavy duty wrecker was able to remove it. Yesterday afternoon’s accident  occurred on Martin Creek Road near the Cartee […]

Oconee’s number one educator is not someone to sit behind a desk. Dr. Mike Lucas frequently sits in classrooms to check the quality of teaching and learning. So far this year, he has visited 142 classrooms.

A workshop takes place today near Columbia to allow Clemson University and the Nature Conservancy to wage battle against a nasty and noxious weed more prevalent than kudzu. According to Steve Compton, the war is on against the plant Cogongrass. “We need as many eyeballs as we can get to help us locate it so we can eradicate it from […]

A hearing is set this afternoon in Anderson in a case of double homicide last year in a rural part of Oconee County. The case is titled, State versus Nicholas Bonelli. The 86-year old defendant is charged with murder in the deaths of 82-year old Clarine Smith, with whom Bonelli shared a home on the Smith Farm Road, and Smith’s […]

Fire fighters in Seneca now say one of three persons inside the home that caught fire yesterday morning required medical assistance. One person with smoke inhalation and a broken wrist from a fall while getting out of the house was sent to the hospital. Yesterday’s fire on Loba Court in the Dalton Bend subdivision is classified accidental, according to Seneca […]

This is a good week to be Joel Davis. The contractor’s company was awarded a $53,719.16 contract to replace the roof on the Walhalla City Gym. And yesterday Davis was selected by Oconee customers of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative to run in May for re-election to the Blue Ridge board.