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Prisma Health will restrict children under 16 starting Wednesday from visiting hospitalized patients.  The reason:  levels of the flu and other respiratory illnesses.  South Carolina reports widespread levels, including three influenza-related deaths.  And the CDC says seasonal flu activity is increasing across the country.  Hospital officials also ask community members not to visit patients if they have a fever, have […]

Under new business tomorrow, West Union Town Council will take up a new water agreement from its supplier, neighboring Walhalla.  It’s an agenda item for the January council meeting at 5:30 tomorrow at West Union Station, 1438 W. Main Street.

A founding member of the Oconee County Conservatives organization will lead that group for an interim.  For now, Perry Smith serves as president, for the interim after the passing of Roel Cruz. Perry Smith

A 48-year-old Oconeean faces charges from a January 3 burglary at an apartment on the Keowee School Road.  Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces the arrest of Christopher Zane Poe on charges of first degree burglary, petty larceny, and assault and battery third degree.  According to the sheriff’s office an arrest warrant alleges Poe caused injury to an apartment resident and tried […]

A policy change is part of the meeting business tonight in Clemson.  The city council is scheduled to take up an amendment to its ethics and conduct code covering elected and appointed officials.  Language of the amendment for discussion:  “The purpose of the document is to make sure that all officials, while exercising their office, conduct themselves in a manner […]

The Gum Branch Mega Ramp will be the jumping in location on Lake Hartwell for the 29th Polar Bear Plunge and Winter Festival.  The Saturday, March 1 event is a fundraiser for the Northeast Georgia Council on Domestic Violence.  The organization raises funds to provide free, confidential services to domestic violence victims.  In 2013, more than 100 persons in Georgia […]

A young woman drowned Saturday when a fishing tournament boat sunk in Lake Hartwell near the Saddlers Creek State Park.  Greg Shore, Anderson coroner, says the death of Kimberely Gomillion was a freshwater, accidental drowning.  Gomillion, 25, was a passenger aboard a boat during the “Stripe Bass Challenge” when the craft took on water and sunk apparently the result of […]

Oconee schools are on a two-hour delay this morning — the aftermath of Winter Storm Cora.

If you have a cancellation due to Winter Storm Cora, please email it to [email protected]. If you are making church-related cancellation decisions early on Sunday morning, you can still send an email, or call Tom Rusk at 864-638-6810 during “Golden Corner Gospel” from 6-8 am. The following cancellations have been received:   College Street Baptist Church in Walhalla will have […]

The following announcement from Oconee public schools:   “We were notified earlier this week that PowerSchool, the vendor that the SC Department of Education contracts with to supply the student data system for all South Carolina school districts, suffered a data breach.  It is important to note that this breach was not caused by SCDOC employees or policy, but was […]