Category: News

All Women Infant and Children (WIC) nutrition services will be issued remotely. Starting Monday, April 13, South Carolina WIC participants will no longer be required to visit WIC clinics, according to DHEC. Appointments and the issuance of nutritional services will instead be made over-the-phone.“We recognize that many South Carolinian families are facing hardships during this time,” said South Carolina State […]

A police officer in Suwanee County, Florida told the Walhalla police this morning that the man reported missing yesterday from a Walhalla apartment complex has been located in a Florida hospital.  The Walhalla police quote the Florida police officer as saying Robert William Stevens is in a hospital there, being checked in the emergency room, and is OK. The Walhalla […]

Kershaw County unexpectedly became an early South Carolina’s hotspot for COVID-19 cases. KershawHealth hospital in Camden experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in March, and Prisma Health transferred five ventilators to the Camden facility. The ventilators were rapidly put into service for critical patients who needed breathing support as they fought COVID-19. “We are proud to serve as a regional […]

The 3-D printers in Tri-County Technical College’s fabrication lab have been running non-stop since Wednesday, April 1, when the faculty and staff from the Engineering and Industrial Technology (EIT) Division answered the call from area EMS agencies and began making personal protective equipment (PPE) for these frontline health care workers who are struggling to find this necessary gear during the […]

Georgia has called off the rest of their public school year. A retiring bus driver in another part of the country has told us he believes he has driven his last school bus. Glum assessments are beginning to add up as to the possibility that even if the curve is flattened, the current public school year can’t be salvaged. The […]

A banner that faces 123 traffic headed from Seneca to Clemson proclaims the planned move of the Lake Keowee Ford dealership from the 123 By-Pass to adjoin the Lake Keowee Dodge dealership. Some preliminary earthmoving work is underway to re-locate the Ford dealership on property that will adjoin the existing Dodge dealership. Lake Keowee Dodge recently opened an overflow lot […]

To say the least, taking measure of the country’s population at the time of rampant virus is awkward. But officials continue to stress the importance of all Oconeeans to answer a few questions that the Census Bureau poses to determine the population count on the day of April 1. The importance is stressed because an undercount could cost Oconee County […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 139 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, including 12 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 2,552, and those who have died to 63. The additional deaths occurred in 10 elderly and two middle-aged patients with underlying […]

Two items are on the agenda for a special meeting tomorrow of the Westminster City Council.  The mayor and council are to consider an emergency ordinance for their city permitting the use of electronic means for meetings, along with a state of emergency for the purpose of applying for assistance from “FEMA”–the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  A second item tomorrow […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is reminding smokers that now is an important time to quit smoking as new research indicates those who smoke may experience more severe complications of the novel coronavirus COVID-19. No matter what stage of the quitting process a person is in, DHEC’s S.C. Tobacco Quitline can help. “The immune system […]