Category: News

Twenty-first century technologies that include drones and other remotely operated equipment will play a part next week during an inspection of the Keowee Dam near Duke Energy’s Keowee Hydro Station and the Oconee Nuclear plant.  Duke has a letter from “FERC” – the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—giving it the go ahead to de-water the power tunnel for what a spokeswoman […]

Oconee sheriff’s officers say a 24-year old man was arrested after being found slumped over in the driver’s seat at a s. highway 11 convenience store.  According to the sheriff’s office, the charge of trafficking in cocaine against Joshua Dillon Ford was made in the investigation Sunday of a suspicious vehicle.  A deputy found Ford inside a black SUV.  A […]

One of the two drivers in a Saturday motor vehicle accident in the South Union Community has been cited by the highway patrol with hit and run with great bodily injury.  Magistrate Blake Norton said the state patrol also cited Bradley Thomas Barnett, 25, of E. Richfield Drive, Westminster with felony driving under the influence bodily injury.  From the accident […]

Oconee deputies found an adult male on Utica’s Humbert Street early yesterday morning wounded by a shotgun blast.  Until paramedics arrived, deputies gave first aid and later went to Padgett Street where an arrest was made.  According to the sheriff’s office, 30-year old Manuel James David Paulino was charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission […]

Gas pump prices in the Carolinas continue to trend higher, as demand for motor vehicle fuel last week reached a new Energy Information Administration record.  That, according to AAA, partially reflects the July 4 holiday weekend travel.  South Carolina’s current gas price sits at $2.86, a five-cent increase on the week. The state July 1 added two pennies to the […]

Cases of COVID-19 appear to be headed in the wrong direction.  There were 11 new cases of the virus in Oconee County alone, for the 24-count period that ended Thursday last week.  And Friday’s included the virus death of a middle-aged Oconeean who died the previous day.  DHEC new daily case numbers, as late as two weeks ago, had dropped […]

The Boeing Company and Clemson University are expanding their partnership, and the goal is enhancing the chances for young Black and Latino men to fill the highly-skilled workforce of tomorrow.  Boeing will be the presenting sponsor of the Clemson 2021 Men of Color National Summit.  As part of that, Boeing will provide support for the university’s college mentorship program, create […]

Road pavers are at work today in the vicinity of the Oconee Regional Airport, applying a new coat of pavement to a section of the two-lane Shiloh Road.  Marty McKee of King Asphalt says crews are at work on the section of Shiloh—from the Airport Road to the property now home to a complex of university student housing.  Motorists are […]

The board governing the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority will conduct the annual review of the employee at the top.  The review of Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, takes place during the July meeting and is reserved as an executive session matter.

A kitchen fire late yesterday afternoon in Walhalla.  The fire department reported the fire was contained to one unit in the Standpointe Vista apartments, off SC 183/N. Catherine Street.  No one injured.  Fire fighters answered the call around 4:30 pm.