Category: News

For the latest three days of counts available, the state health agency has recorded COVID-19 test positivity at below 10%.  On Thursday, it was 7.7%; on Friday, 7.7%; and on Saturday, 6.7%.  However, three days of deaths statewide amounted to 106, including three Oconeeans who were recorded on Friday as dead from the virus.

Oconee School District counts 80 cases of COVID-19 in the public schools over a period of seven days.  In total, there have been 903 cases since the schools opened in August—750 of them students.  Here are the monthly numbers so far:  for August, 508; September, 379; and in October so far, 16.  All 50 closures so far this year were […]

The new kidney transplant program at Greenville Memorial Hospital has received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to perform transplants.  Prisma Health Transplant Center expects to see its first patients early this month.  It promises leading-edge care to kidney-disease patients who previously had to travel more than 100 miles for transplant-related procedures.  According to the organ sharing network, […]

A spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office says there has been a verbal confirmation that a missing Salem woman has been located and is safe.  Over the weekend, Jennifer Nicole McLane was the subject of a missing person’s report, after having not been seen for a week. Master Deputy Jimmy Watt says to remove McLane as missing from the database […]

A man on a solo fishing hike to the Wild and Scenic Chattooga River remains unaccounted for this morning, according to Allen White, chief of the Mountain Rest Volunteer Fire Department.  White says the search for him resumes this morning.  His SUV has been found, but no sign of him and, according to White, his family is concerned.

The deaths of two AAA tow providers has the motor club raising awareness of the dangers that public safety responders face on the roadside and how critical it is that drivers follow move over laws.  Glenn Ewing was killed near Cincinnati while placing a disabled vehicle on the back of a flatbed on the side of the road; David Meyer […]

According to Oconee Sheriff’s Office, two people inside a vehicle near Walhalla were arrested in a traffic stop in which a county deputy received help from both the Walhalla and the West Union police.  The sheriff’s office announced charges of trafficking in heroin and possession of a controlled substance—the psychoactive drug ecstasy—against Kayla Leann Sullivan, 25, and Barry Dee Palmer […]

The BASF manufacturing plant near Seneca provided a breakfast meal to frontline healthcare workers at the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital.  BASF donated 300 breakfast chicken biscuits to clinical in-patient staff and employees in the lab, radiology, cleaning services, and other departments within the hospital.

At the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority, it’s audit time.  In their meeting late this afternoon, the sewer commissioners are to receive the outside audit of the monies spent and expended for the government year which ended June 30.  Chris Eleazer, executive director, says it’s his intent to place the document on the authority website, available for all to have […]

  A 25-year old Salem woman is the subject of a missing person’s case of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  Deputies went to the Seneca area late Saturday evening and quote a family member as saying no one has heard from Jennifer Nicole McLane in about one week.  She is 5’2”, 118 pounds, brown hair.  On her right forearm arm is […]