Category: News

Everyone is invited to join the fun at the Foothills Agriculture Fair on the Sandifer Boulevard, but you can also use the experience this weekend to learn important tips when it comes to meeting farm equipment on many of the county’s small rural roads. Andy Whitten invites fair goers to take the time to visit the Farm Bureau trailer at […]

The FBI launched a hate crime reporting campaign this month in South Carolina as part of a nationwide effort to encourage reporting to law enforcement. The advertising campaign in the state includes billboard messages, 30-second videos on gas station pumps at participating locations, mobile cellular telephone advertisements, and recorded messages on various radio stations. Hate crimes are the highest priority […]

The possibility that hand-held and other communication devices in Fair Play can be enhanced by high-speed access to the internet has stirred curiosity in the Oconee-Anderson community.  Zach Hinton of Upcountry Fiber, the joint fiber optic project of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative and the Western Carolina Telephone Company, fielded lots of questions during a meeting last night in Fair […]

The Oconee County official responsible to lead industrial and other economic development told last night’s Fair Play meeting that area contains two separate industrial park properties which her office is engaging in marketing to outside interests.  One is the 322-acre publicly owned Golden Corner Commerce Park on SC 59; the other is 64 privately-owned acres at I-85 Exit 4.  Annie […]

If I-85 as it runs through Oconee County is ever to see the kinds of development that’ll offer economic benefits to Fair Play community, piped sewer at the interstate exits is considered a pre-requisite.  The coming of sewer has been talked decades, and last night the executive director of Oconee’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority pleaded with an audience at the […]

Great change is coming to an Oconee County un-incorporated community bisected by the I-85 highway. That’s the community of Fair Play.  Those who sat in a church sanctuary last night heard ambitious plans to develop two industrial park properties, acquire high-speed internet access, make a community master plan and, finally, after decades of talk, lay piped sewer in the ground.  […]

For his conviction on the charge of possession of methamphetamine third offense, Randy Lee Cantrell learned today he will serve the maximum prison sentence possible.  Cantrell was convicted last month, but the sentence was sealed because he was tried in absentia.  Since that time, the defendant was taken into custody, and today he was in court to hear his fate.  […]

As a result of the brutal murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh on June 7, SLED’s initial priority was finding anyone responsible for their deaths. During the course of the double murder investigation, SLED agents have uncovered other potential crimes that warrant further investigation. “SLED agents continue to work diligently to bring justice to all victims in these cases. As […]

New cases of COVID-19 reported today by South Carolina DHEC for the state:  2,202.  (The previous day’s count was 1,599).  For Oconee, the new case number was 67 (it was 47 the previous 24-hour period).  Statewide, 39 new deaths recorded, two of them Oconee County residents.  Of 24,310 test results received, the positivity was 12.4%.  (These new numbers out this […]

An Oconee School District official has confirmed there was a school bus mishap this morning on US 123/the Sandifer Boulevard in the vicinity of the SC 11 interchange.  However, district administrator Steve Hanvey says, no one was hurt when the bus hit a roadside electric power device.