Category: News

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the University of South Carolina (UofSC) are leading an extensive initiative to fortify the state’s response to COVID-19. This science-guided, year-long project will provide information about disease infection and immunity over time and will help identify health inequities. Led by Dr. Virginie Daguise, DHEC’s Bureau of Chronic Disease and Injury […]

Agents from the S.C. Law Enforcement Division Wednesday arrested two suspects in an incident on I-85 in Greenville County that resulted in the death of a deputy from the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. Ray L. Kelly, 37, was charged with Murder, Resisting Arrest with a Deadly Weapon, Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature, Weapons Possession During a […]

    Numbers released this week from the state capital show that Oconee County in September registered an unemployment rate of 3.4%–practically the lowest jobless rate of any of the 46 counties.  Only Lexington and the small county of Saluda had lower jobless rates.  Conversely Marlboro County, at 8.2%, was the highest.  South Carolina averaged 5.1% of its workforce out […]

  The director of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, Michael Leach, would like South Carolinians to embrace the perspective that poverty alone does not equate to neglect.  That is the attitude being adopted at the state agency level in recognition that even staff members are not immune to the challenges posed by racial bias.  Leach says, “We acknowledge […]

In a drive-up food giveaway today in Westminster, 1,152 boxes of food were given away, and Mayor Brian Ramey says there are many people and organizations to thank, including Oconee First Steps.

A traffic accident around 3:15 this afternoon on SC 188, the Keowee School Road.  From the scene, it appeared at least two vehicles involved, one a large vehicle.  Responding were EMS, fire trucks, and police.  The highway is two-lanes and a backup resulted for those trying to make their past the accident scene.

  Two Prisma Health doctors are urging South Carolinians to try to minimize the numbers of people who normally gather for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.  Keeping down crowds and observing the basic spacing and sanitary recommendations are believed to be key to reversing the latest trend of increased COVID-19 infections.  Doctors Eric Ossmann, emergency medicine, and Wendell James, anesthesiologist, […]

South Carolina Highway Patrol reports a Tuesday night accident in Pickens County has taken the life a motorcycle operator, whose bike and an SUV vehicle collided on SC 183 near Hamburg Road.  According to trooper Brandon Bolt, the accident occurred as the Honda SUV turned in front of the motorcycle as the SUV tried to enter a private driver.  Bolt […]

On today’s report from South Carolina DHEC, 686 new cases of COVID-19 were added to the pandemic totals, now nearly 159 and a half thousand since the counting started.  And with 11 new deaths, the toll for COVID dead in the state is 3,487.  No new Oconee deaths reported, but there were 19 new cases.  The total number of test […]

As Seneca High grapples with increasing COVID detections, two classes of Social Studies have been relegated to distance learning.  They’ve been told to remain at home until November 3–the return date for both of those classes.