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The Oconee coroner says an autopsy verified the death Saturday of a Westminster man was a Lake Hartwell drowning at Fair Play.  The victim was Wayne Michael Reynolds, 47 years old.

The national organization of baby doctors is recommending that, in the upcoming school year, all children wear masks. But that is not the plan next month when Oconee public schools open a new year.  Dr. Michael Thorsland, district superintendent, announced last night that the public schools are expecting a new year to be “like normal”. Which means the children and […]

Two Seneca teenagers, for whom a missing persons’ alert was issued late yesterday, have been located in Westminster.  Both King Supreme Jasiah Jones and his sister, Nevada Jones, are safe, according to an announcement last evening by Master Deputy Jimmy Watt.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating two missing Seneca area teenagers.   14 year old King Supreme Jasiah Jones and his sister, 13 year old Nevada Jones, were reported missing by a family member to the Sheriff’s Office early Sunday evening after a deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division responded to the teen’s […]

Over six days, South Carolina exceeded in excess of 300 new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19.  In three of the days–Thursday through Saturday the cases surpassed 350.  The latest numbers of new Oconee County cases were seven on Thursday, three on Friday, and five on Saturday.  For the 24-hour count that ended at 11:59 Saturday night, there were two additional […]

Faculty and staff in the College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences at Clemson University used funds from Dabo’s All In Team Foundation this summer to deliver food security programs in Oconee County.  The program recruited 45 participants who received free boxes of fresh, primarily local produce with accompanying recipes two times a month.  Participants also attended sessions with a […]

A venue of entertainment that serves as a fundraiser for local and regional charities has come to an end.  Terry Ballenger, spokesman for the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, has confirmed there will be no more Blue Ridge Fests, an annual music series that attracted well known country, gospel and performers from other genres.  To stage the entertainment each spring required […]

South Carolina is beginning a once-every-ten-year process that decides where the political clout rests within the state’s legislative chambers.  Chairman Luke Rankin of the Senate Judiciary Committee announces a re-organization meeting takes place tomorrow for the redistricting subcommittee.  Rankin is a Republican state senator from Horry County, but the subcommittee is bi-partisan.  And Rankin declares, “I look forward to our […]

A pickup truck accident early yesterday morning in rural Anderson County took the life of a 23-year old Clemson man.  The accident that claimed Deandre Nathaniel Mansell occurred on the Pelzer Highway, 10 miles north of Williamston.  According to the state patrol, the pickup truck left the highway and hit a guardrail and a tree.  The driver was ejected.

An autopsy is planned today in the death of a 47-year old man whose body was retrieved Saturday afternoon from Lake Hartwell.  Coroner Addis quoted family members as saying Wayne Michael Reynolds was wading in the lake at the Fair Play Recreation Area when he disappeared.  Reynolds, who was believed to have been a swimmer, did not appear in any […]