Category: News

Walhalla’s Summer Wood is an example of the newest set of students to have graduated from Oconee County public schools. Summer, who chose to finish high school in fewer than four years, served as special speaker Tuesday as she and 22 other students were graduated in ceremonies at West-Oak High auditorium. Members of the county board, principals and the superintendent […]

Plans are in the works to once again expose local and area students to available careers in their backdoors. This year’s Anderson-Oconee-Pickens Business and Industry Showcase September 12 and 13 at Clemson’s Littlejohn Coliseum will likely attract as many as six thousand 8th and 9th graders, who should begin to reach decisions about the courses that can lead them to […]

State troopers are reporting a car driver lost his life early today in an accident one mile north of Salem. The accident occurred on the Mack Reid Road, not far from the Whitewater Falls Road. According to the investigating trooper, the car went off the left side of the road, hit an embankment, and overturned. For the driver’s identification, the […]

The State Patrol reports a fatal traffic collision occurred this morning near Salem. The accident scene, shortly after 6 a.m., was the Whitewater Falls Road area, on Haney Road at Mack Reid Road. No other details immediately available.

Oconee County is in the market for new property. This time, according to Administrator Scott Moulder, the purpose is not a jail or an industrial park. It’s to buy extra property for the future expansion of the county’s Rock Quarry, a money-making enterprise of county government.  

  Two men with handguns held up a store last night in Anderson. The crime occurred around 8:10 p.m. at the Little General Store on Bleckley Street. The police say two black males wearing T-shirts and dark pants and cloths covering their faces stole an undetermined amount of money and ran away. The Anderson police say they are working with […]

A tree fell onto an electric power line and then on top of a car last night in the Five Forks Community near Walhalla. Captain Mark Hollifield of the Walhalla Fire Department says no one was hurt on Panhead Lane near the Stribling Shoals Road, although the homeowner at the address lost electric power service for about one hour.  

The first of a half dozen men arrested in a Seneca restaurant parking lot crime last winter has seen his case resolved in the court of General Sessions. A plea of guilt to a reduced charge of assault and battery third degree netted Montrez Obrian Jones a 30-day jail sentence, with credit given to time served. Jones and five others […]

Following a public hearing and the final reading of an ordinance for the sale of its spec building, Oconee County Council was able to savor its acquisition of a Georgia manufacturer who, in today’s hungry climate for jobs, had its choice of places to re-locate. The council heard from Bob Crawford of RBC Bearings, which includes the A. I. D. […]