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The Oconee NAACP Chapter’s annual Black History Tea, a luncheon held each year in the Seneca Family Life Institute’s Auditorium, will be a virtual event this year. The event will be streamed live via Zoom on Sunday, organizers said. Mayor Dan Alexander, Police Chief Casey Bowling, City Administrator Scott Moulder and Council Member Rev. WC Honeycutt are scheduled to be […]

A 24-year old man near Westminster was placed under arrest Wednesday night on charges that arise from two separate vehicle chases – one on February 11 and the other on February 23.  From the February 11 pursuit in the area of Fire Tower Road, Kenneth Charles Goss was charged with the following offenses:  failure to stop for a blue light; […]

DHEC reports 921 new cases statewide, 26 in Oconee County.  Added to the virus death in the state:  42 individuals, including two Oconeeans.  One was a middle aged resident who died January 30th; the other, an elderly person who died February 20. Of 26,810 new test results received, the state positivity was 8.4%.

While true there has been a stop to the Duke project to lay new line along a SC 188/Keowee School Road bridge, the company makes clear today that it is now vetting another contractor to come in and resume the work.  An overall objective of the work is to lay the necessary infrastructure to reduce the number of outages that […]

A roundabout is proposed to replace the current intersection of SC 24 (the West-Oak Highway), SC 182 (the Oakway Road) and S-116 (the Oak Creek Road), and the state would like to know what you think.  According to the DOT, the project was selected by local leadership as an area of concern and ranked against similar projects across the region. […]

The Andrew Pickens Ranger District  plans two more prescribed burns today for a total of 1,383 acres. Burn objectives are to help wildlife habitat improvement, research, and hazardous fuels reduction. Smoke may be visible, with residual smoke lingering into the afternoon and evening hours. The information for the two units are as follows:   Sandy Ford- 1,063 acres located west […]

Fire burned a vacant house late last night near Salem, on the Stamp Creek Road.  Fire fighters were alerted just before 10:45 last night and were at the fire scene until shortly after 1 o’clock this morning.

As many as four cars wrecked late yesterday afternoon on highway 11 just north of West Union.  Although there were no personal injuries, public safety responders dealt with, what one called, a traffic nightmare with the wreckage and other traffic attempting to make its way past the wreck scene on the two-lane highway.

896 new cases across the state (5 in Oconee). 25 new confirmed South Carolina deaths. Of 16,333 test results, positivity was 8.8%. In Oconee public schools, eight new cases were registered Tuesday.  Seven are students, one is an employee.  A 1st grade Orchard Park Elementary class was sent home and given a March 1 return date.

In a normal year, the auditorium in Seneca’s Family Life Institute is packed for the city’s official luncheon during Black History Month.  But, as the pandemic continues, this year’s Black History Tea, arranged by the Oconee NAACP, will be a virtual event 4 pm Sunday and available at https://clemson.zoom.us/j/2663610627 The annual program focuses on the role that NAACP has played […]