Category: News

Seven new cases of COVID-19 popped up on the virus tracking page kept by the Oconee public schools for Friday, October 23.  They are as follows:  an employee at Walhalla James Brown Elementary; a student at West-Oak High/Hamilton Career Center; a student at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary; a case at the West-Oak High bus area; and three Seneca High School […]

The state health agency has updated numbers (from the weekend) that show Oconee’s total of virus deaths during the pandemic has reached 33, thirty-one of those deaths officially confirmed.  DHEC also projects two probable deaths.

Apparently some Oconee voters have begun to show up at the wrong place.  That has prompted the following announcement today from Joy Scharich, elections director:  “ALL early voting is at 415 S. Pine St. in Walhalla 8:30-5.  Precincts are only open on Election Day (Phones are flooded with voters asking where they go and they went to their polling place […]

With COVID-19 safety guidelines followed, promotions and recognition ceremonies for Oconee Sheriff’s Office personnel were held separately and in a socially-distance manner.  Some of those promoted included personnel who responded in life-saving situations.

Life seems full of many uncertainties this day.  But, for sure, we can count on an arrival this weekend.  At 2 o’clock Sunday morning, we come to the end of Daylight Saving Time.  Which means we’ll need to change our timepieces by one hour.  Each fall, we turn back the clocks one hour.  Meaning that, for most of us, we […]

South Carolina’s COVID-19 numbers keep on rising.  This morning we have a count for the last three days of numbers reported by the state health agency.  For the reporting period Friday through yesterday, additional case numbers statewide were 2,693.  That includes 1,281 cases on yesterday’s report.  The death toll also inches upward, with 18 deaths reported Friday; 13 deaths Saturday; […]

  The 2020 Election Day is fewer than two weeks away, and it’s already starting to be crunch time if you are planning to cast your ballot by mail absentee.  Joy Scharich, the Oconee elections director, says, “Tomorrow is the last day if you’re mailing an absentee request back, we have to get it by tomorrow in order for your […]

A 16-year old student at Anderson’s T-L Hanna High School becomes the first student to attend classes at both his high school and Tri-County Tech, while working part-time at Anderson County’s Arthrex plant.  Starting Monday, Austin Singleton will work part-time at Arthrex as a CNC machine operator youth apprentice.  There are many registered youth apprenticeship programs across the state that […]

You can forgive Americans if they’ve been so consumed by how and when to vote and the continuous COVID-19 crisis that they paid little or no attention this week to an achievement in outer space.  But a former Seneca man, now 91, paid a lot of attention to the news that a spacecraft successfully touched down on an asteroid deep […]

    Increasing local and area COVID case numbers are believed to be linked to the return of college students, and now Clemson University has decided that after the Thanksgiving break, it will     move to online-only instruction.  That’ll cover the last two weeks of the fall semester.  The final day of regular on-campus classes will be Tuesday, November 24.  The […]