Category: News

A Pickens County man from the town of Six Mile has been arrested in a continuing investigation of a burglary at a former manufacturing plant near Westminster. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, the arrest of Kevin Wayne Ballard is the fourth arrest related to burglary at the former Dunlop golf products plant. Forty-three year old Ballard is charged with […]

Commissioners of Oconee Soil and Water Conservation recently attended a conference in Charleston that included state DNR and Natural Resource Service officials.  A highlight was a tour of St. James Island.  The South Carolina coast has a 90% oyster bed restoration rate, and the state is considered number one in restoring habitats to ensure oysters in the future.  The local  […]

The field for seats on a state regulatory board, the Public Service Commission, widened with an extended application period that ended on Friday. A joint session of the South Carolina Legislature will fill PSC seats representing Districts 1, 3, 5, and 7. First, however, will come public hearings on the qualifications of the candidates. District Three includes the counties of […]

State Rep. Bill Sandifer of Seneca announces he will seek re-election to the State House of Representatives from District 2. Sandifer serves Oconee County in the General Assembly and is the Chairman of one of the six House Committees, the Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee which guides policy on energy and commerce issues in the state. The committee recently passed […]

Seats are coming open this year on the board that sets policy for the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative.  One of them is an Oconee County seat in District One.  It’s the seat held by Len Talley, and Talley is offering for re-election.  Blue Ridge will accept nominees for the seat during a District One membership meeting at 10 o’clock Monday […]

Bernie Sanders’s 24% of the Oconee vote was a surprise to Chairman Steve Sperry of the Oconee Democratic Party. He had thought Sanders would have taken 20%. Tracking Saturday’s results, Sperry kept an eye on the results from a pair of county precincts where it was suspected Republicans would have cast ballots for Sanders, not because they want him to […]

An early Sunday night fire destroyed an abandoned mobile home near Seneca.  Fire fighters responded to stop the fire at an address on Cedar Creek Lane near Mauldin Mill Road, west of the city limits.  “It (the abandoned structure) was back in the woods, and no one was supposed to be living there.”

Oconee sheriff’s officers have identified the man who was the subject of a February 24 standoff at a home near Walhalla on the S. Abbott Road. The sheriff’s office last night announced the arrest of Thomas Gregory Lockridge Jr. on charges of domestic violence third degree—assault on a female. Thirty-three year old Lockridge was also served with a probation violation […]

Joe Biden was the choice of Oconee County voters in today’s Democratic Presidential preference primary. The unofficial tally gives the former vice president 37.63% of votes cast in a primary in which, it’s believed, many Republicans cast ballots. Bernie Sanders placed second with almost 24%, while Tom Steyer was third at 12.8%. A total of 5,794 votes were cast. That, […]

Workmen were seen back on the job Saturday at the Fairfield Inn by Marriott on the 123 Seneca By-Pass. But, as far as the city administrator understands, there has been no lifting of the stop work order issued on the discovery of a “small collapse” in a retaining wall that is to separate the multi-story hotel from the slope leading […]