Category: News

An Oconee County delinquent property tax sale is attracting hundreds of people, apparently out for a bargain, to today’s event in the Performing Center for the Arts.  The parking lot and adjoining streets are full of parked cars and trucks.

Families may find help paying back rent or satisfying past-due utility bills from a program through SC Housing.  The program is partnering with community organizations to help, especially now that the U-S Supreme Court has ended the moratorium on federal evictions.  SC Stay Plus begun in May is a rent and utility help program for renters financially impacted by COVID-19.  […]

The Seneca Transit Service invites riders and the public for a public hearing tomorrow afternoon to talk about bus routes.  The hearing takes place at 4 o’clock in the city council chambers, and a proposed route change is on display at the city hall during regular business hours.  If you are interested but can’t make tomorrow’s hearing, written comments may […]

A South Carolina Republican and an Arizona Democrat are part of a bi-partisan Senate effort to protect payments cuts that are being floated in their chamber.  South Carolina’s Tim Scott and Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema have sent a letter to the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.  Medicare Advantage, also known as Medicare Part C, makes it possible […]

A rally for life has been announced at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Oconee administrative complex in Walhalla, to precede the start of the 6 o’clock county council meeting.  At their regular meeting, the county fathers are to consider a resolution that declares Oconee a right-to-life county, to recognize humans in all stages of life—from pre-birth to natural death.

Thankful and a feeling of bless are some of the thoughts that Wayne Garland experienced when the 74-year old Walhallan finished his immense hike early this afternoon on the Appalachian Trail.  We spoke by phone moments ago with Garland, not long after he reached Georgia’s Springer Mountain.  Garland required about six months of actual hiking to finish his north-south route—from […]

The brand new executive of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce says the chamber is engaged with education officials to try to find a way to lessen the worker shortage facing chamber business members, as well as business in general.  The chamber’s Crystal Romanyszyn is not optimistic that the problem will be completely eliminated, but hopeful that talks with high school […]

An Oconee sheriff’s officer says an arrest was made today in the investigation of an assault in Picket Post community vicinity.  According to authorities, the investigation centered at a home on the White Cut Road.

Oconee County has eclipsed 200 deaths from COVID-19 since the counting started shortly after the world pandemic was declared.  South Carolina DHEC’s numbers show a total of 202 Oconeeans have died from the virus, including one Oconeean who was included in the latest count.  At mid-week, South Carolina saw 987 new, confirmed cases, an additional 106 deaths for the 24-hour […]

Oconee County appears close to welcoming a new major employer.  On the agenda of next week’s county council meeting is preliminary approval of a fee-in-place-of tax agreement with an unidentified company that promises to invest $15,400,000 in “economic development property” and create 215 new, full-time jobs.  As part of an inducement agreement, the county determines to sell about 27 acres […]