Category: News

Westminster will shut off water on Doyle Street, at Doyle and Simpson streets, beginning at 11 this morning. Customers there will be without service for about six hours, while crews connect a line to the new northern loop.

A 75-year old man sits in an Oconee jail cell this morning, having been arrested on a warrant alleging fugitive from justice. According to an Oconee Sheriff’s Department report, Newman Howard Shankle was identified by authorities in Richmond County, North Carolina as a suspect in fraud and the mistreatment of a body. The department quotes a task force officer for […]

A young man from Seneca serves as an advanceman for the Mitt Romney campaign for President. With the campaign in high gear, it’s a busy job for Billy Boylston who managed a quick trip home last weekend. Boylston is a former aide to Congressman Jeff Duncan.

The Foothills Trail Conference has accepted a $1 thousand donation from Johnson Controls. A worldwide technology and manufacturing company, Johnson Controls made the donation as part of its environmental stewardship program called Blue Sky. For several years, the company has donated money to assist with maintenance of the 77-mile hiking trail between Oconee State Park and Table Rock State Park. […]

From bankers and real estate agents to educators, the latest class of S.C. Leadership gathers for the first time today with a vision to better themselves and those around them. The program is supported by Clemson University’s Institute for Economic and Community Development and was established to provide gifted and highly motivated South Carolinians a chance to advance their leadership […]

An explanation today on the pocketbook impact of that Oconee County school tax increase that’ll show up in the bills that are to go out in the mail this fall. On his blog, County Superintendent of Education Mike Lucas says the increase of 8.7 mills will have no effect on the homeowner for an owner-occupied property. The reason? “Local property […]

Sheriff candidate Donnie Fricks reminded Oconee County Council and the meeting audience last night of next week’s 11th anniversary of the attacks by terrorists in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Fricks spoke during council’s public comment session. A former civilian commander of police programs in Afghanistan, Fricks offered a U-S flag that he said is documented to have flown over […]

State troopers reported two accidents this morning in front of schools in both Oconee and Pickens counties. They took place around 7:30 within minutes of the other, one in front of Walhalla Elementary School on Fowler and the other in front of Daniel High School on S.C. 133.

No one has actually signed anything as yet, but optimism continues to grow that Sewer South is close to reality. The project to sewer Oconee’s Golden Corner Commerce Park on highway 59 and extend piped sewer to  other parts of the southern end of the county have been the focus of years of meetings and a good share of contentious […]

The irony of last night’s spectacle was not lost on Scott Moulder.  The second-year Oconee County administrator said the large turnout for last night’s County council meeting by the county’s emergency services staff and the many volunteers who make up the volunteer rescue, HAZMAT, fire department and other emergency services was a sign of today’s better relations betweenPine Streetand those […]