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Hot weather, especially during the long Memorial Day holiday weekend, will bring out the boaters throughout South Carolina.  To try to make for as safe as conditions as possible, the DNR will hold courtesy boat inspections at public boat landings.  Two of those inspections will take place on state waters in both Pickens and Anderson counties.  DNR officers will perform […]

A short length state road that helps connect Oconee motorists traveling to Pickens County and back has been closed temporarily to allow the contractor to re-pave and make other improvements.  It’s the Keowee River Road, which connects between SC 130 and 183 in the vicinity of the Oconee Nuclear Station.  A spokesman for King Asphalt says motorists should rely on […]

If you think low 90-degree weather is unprecedented for the last week of May, you weren’t here during the Eisenhower administration.  For Walhalla, the temperature hit 99 degrees on May 31, 1953.  That’s found in the record books kept by the family of the official weather watcher Barbara Wilson.

Ahead on this coming Sunday’s ‘Community Soundoff’ on 101.7/WGOG:  Why an Abbeville-McCormick phone company is helping Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative bring fiber optic, high-speed broadband access to households and businesses in Blue Ridge’s upstate service territory.  The $150 million project carries an estimated price tag of $150 million.

The afternoon of June 2 in Seneca is being reserved for an accounting of what the county sewer authority is doing to bring itself back into the good graces of state regulators when it comes to overflows in the service area.  That Wednesday afternoon, in a three-hour meeting, the Joint Regional Sewer Authority’s outside attorney and consultant are to explain […]

Over the weekend the state health agency reported test positivity below 2.5%.  Yesterday’s was 2.4%; Saturday’s 2.3.  Those results came from thousands of tests statewide.  Other DHEC numbers for the 24-hour count that ended Friday night:  192 new confirmed cases, including four in Oconee.  Statewide, there were 10 more deaths.  For the count that ended the previous night, Thursday, there […]

A tip received enabled Oconee investigators on Thursday to arrest a man from the Pickens County town of Central on eight Oconee County charges.  The sheriff’s office identified the arrested man was Jerrico Roshean Fruster and lists the following charges:  second degree burglary; malicious injury to real property; assault and battery third degree; first degree burglary; pointing and presenting a […]

Confirmed new cases of COVID-19 on the report this afternoon from South Carolina DHEC:  281.  Five were in Oconee County.  Statewide, the virus is known to have caused two more deaths.  Of 12,665 test results from the state, the new positivity was 3.7%. These numbers reflect data at the end of the day Wednesday.

Here is an announcement today from the South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) : “The South Carolina Department of Education announced today it is seeking input from educational stakeholders and the public to inform the development of the state plan for use of $211,205,148 in funding received through the American Rescue Plan’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ARP ESSER). […]

In fast-growing Oconee and increasing vehicle traffic, where might the state locate the next set of traffic lights as a way to slow traffic and enhance safety?  According to what Sam Dickson of Westminster said yesterday, it could well be on Wells Highway in front of the large Borg Warner manufacturing plant.  Dickson chairs the county’s state “C” Fund Committee […]