Category: News

After being thwarted on its request for a July 30 referendum, the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department is turning to its community members for donations.  Those donations, says Chief Christenbury, are needed “for ongoing training and operations” for the rest of the calendar year.  The mostly-volunteer fire station now gears toward a vote in the November General Election to decide whether it […]

Some 12-hundred Oconeeans exercised their right to vote by casting early ballots ahead of tomorrow’s Republican Party runoff election in South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District. The rest of those eligible voters in Oconee County may cast ballots 7 am to 7 pm tomorrow at their regular polling places.  Bountyland voters are reminded their precinct location is now the Oconee Christian […]

The U-S Small Business Administration reminds small businesses, small agriculture cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most non-profit organizations that July 22 is the filing deadline for federal working capital loans for losses due to drought that began November 14, 2023.  The declaration covers several counties in Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas, including Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee and […]

Plans are in the works for a new Bigfoot festival in Westminster.  Music, contests, and crafts will be part of the 2024 festival Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12.  Everyone is invited, even those who don’t believe the Big Fella exists.

A $500 dollar grant will be used by the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation toward the care of newborns.  In appreciation of the grant Thursday from the Seneca Rotary Club, Cortni Nations of the foundation expressed her gratitude, and explained to the Rotarians it means that at the local level greater care is now available to newborns in the […]

South Carolina’s chief executive is in Germany.  Governor McMaster takes part in an economic development mission trip to the European nation and will take time to visit and tour the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.  He’ll also visit German companies with South Carolina operations.

A Sunday morning accident in Pickens County took the life of a motorcyclist.  The state patrol is deferring to the coroner’s office for the identity of the deceased.  Trooper Brandon Bolt said the accident was logged at 11:20 yesterday morning on SC 11, eight miles north of Pickens.  Involved:  a motorcycle and an SUV.  According to Bolt, the accident occurred […]

Non-profits who make life easier for others are sharing in grants announced today by the Seneca Rotary Club.  The Rotarians accumulated $5,250 in fundraisers.  Sharing in those monies are the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Foundation, Seneca High School, Foothills Care, Fostering Faithfully, Grace’s Closet, Collins Home Family Ministry, and “BRIEF”– Blue Ridge Innovation and Entrepreneurship Foundation.

A plea of guilty produced a prison term this week in the Oconee General Sessions Court.  The judge directed Derawin Joseph Fretwell to serve a maximum 10-year sentence for criminal sexual conduct third degree, according to Deputy Solicitor Jason Alderman.  Once Fretwell completes the sentence, he will be placed on the registry of sex offenders.  Alderman said the victim in […]

Asphalt companies are getting bigger and, unfortunately for Oconee County, larger companies are looking for larger contracts than those that a county of Oconee’s size offers.  And it’s creating problems for cities such as Seneca and Westminster to get streets repaved.  Sam Dickson and Richard Cottingham of the Oconee State “C” Fund Committee brought their concerns to their committee meeting, […]