Category: News

The spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office is clearing up information related to the missing William Sidney Brown, for whom a missing person report was issued on Friday.  Master Deputy Jimmy Watt says his office seeks information on the whereabouts of 43-year old Brown, who may have gone out of state.  “William does not have any outstanding arrest warrants with […]

Clemson University is telling the story of an associate professor who overcame a tragic Oconee County car accident decades ago.  She’s the founder and chair of Clemson’s Institute for Global Road Safety and Security.  Kim Alexander’s work and that of her colleagues not only impacts the lives of those who visit their classrooms, but makes a difference to motorists everywhere.  […]

Amtrak has a vision for increased rail service across the country, but its spokeswoman says it’s too early to say how new routes and improved corridors might impact the line running through Oconee County.  The possibilities have some people wondering if there might be a new, high-speed line to parallel the existing track from Clemson through Oconee and into Stephens […]

Oconee County fathers are primed to re-assign the holder of their broadband network, but first there’s the matter of legal advice to be given tonight in executive session.  Reserved for part of tonight’s closed session of the county council is the assignment of One Tone Telecom’s network interests to the newly formed Upcountry Fiber, a subsidiary of the Blue Ridge […]

Thursday and Friday COVID-19 numbers are the latest available from South Carolina DHEC.  For both days, the positivity of test results show a percentage in the 2% range for the state.  For the report issued Sunday that reflected Friday numbers, the state health agency confirmed 159 new cases, six of them in Oconee County.  There were an additional five deaths, […]

An early Memorial Day head-on traffic accident in Belton took the life of a 27-year old Spartanburg man.  Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore says Derrick Denzel Mack Mohrmann was killed around 2:15 yesterday morning on highway 29 north.  Investigation reveals Mohrmann was the driver of a car that collided with a Jeep driven by a Taylors man.  The responding fire […]

Unexplained injuries suffered by an Oconee County inmate are to be investigated by the state police.  At the request of Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division will make an independent assessment, a standard procedure even though, in this case, according to Capt. Jeremy Chapman, no Oconee detention officers were involved.  A call button to a cell […]

A rural Oconee County resident has been arrested and charged in three warrants alleging sex crimes.  Law enforcement records identify the arrested man as Augustino Cusimano.  Sixty-five year old Cusimano is accused in two of the warrants as having in the third degree sexually exploited a minor by unlawfully possessing material that contained “a visual representation of a minor engaging […]

The state health agency has added  257 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19 to its record-keeping.  Included in that number:  five cases from Oconee County.  Statewide, the death toll increased by 10 individuals.  Of 13,016 test results, the new South Carolina positivity is 2.9%.  These numbers are the data counted in the 24-hour period that ended at 11:59 Wednesday night.

The region is approaching a blood shortage because of historical low donor turnout, and the Blood Connection warns that unless the public responds to a plea to donate, a blood rationing event will take place.  Hospitals report they are using blood at a     much higher rate than normal.  The Blood Connection is having to back-order blood products.  Blood donations […]