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The highway patrol reports a Subaru driver avoided major injuries when her car struck a pickup truck from the back late this morning on 123 – the Seneca-Clemson Corridor – near Mahaffey Drive. The impact caused the Subaru to burst into flames. Trooper say the accident involved a second vehicle, a pickup truck that was attempting a turn off 123.  […]

Fire this morning on the roof the Oconee Schneider Electric Plant on the Sandifer Boulevard occurred, according to the fire chief, between a furnace and a metal wall and required a firefighting operation that took place at the back of the large building.  At the time, Schneider workers were evacuated.  However, county fire chief Chris Smith, says the fire is […]

“The Walhalla Water Department would like to notify customers that we have received numerous calls regarding no water and/or low water pressure in certain areas. Our crews were dispatched to investigate the issue and have determined that a water line has been hit and damaged. Our crews are currently on site and working to make the necessary repairs. Customers in […]

Notwithstanding the incomplete street work, there’s determination for Westminster to help deliver a great Apple Festival.  Organizers have changed the layout downtown to work around the construction on Main and Retreat streets.   Unfortunately, part of Main and a one-block section of Retreat will remain closed.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, says, “We know construction during the Apple Festival isn’t ideal.  But […]

Two organizations are making plans to bring together candidates for South Carolina governor in a public forum next month on the campus of Clemson University. It’s to take place 7:30 Thursday night, October 1 at Tillman Hall Auditorium. It’s designed as a non-partisan event to give voters the chance to hear directly from the candidates ahead of the November General […]

Fire is being fought today at the main Oconee Schneider Electric Plant on the Sandifer Boulevard.  The fire was described by one public safety responder as fire in the furnace at the back of the building.             On the opposite end of 123, between Seneca and Clemson, we have a report of rear-end auto accident that resulted in fire to […]

  The death of the founder of an Oconee childhood literacy organization is being mourned by Baby Read.  Baby Read is the group founded by Dr. Caren von Hippel.  She had a great passion for reading to babies and their families throughout Oconee County and encouraging reading, talking, and sharing books.  All of that to to encourage a foundation for […]

The man considered the suspect in an ambush killing of a policeman south of Atlanta later took his own life in Anderson County, South Carolina.  Coroner Greg Shore says Jimmy Lee Steverson III, 23-year-old resident of Greenville, Georgia, took his own life. Shore gave this account of what happened:  “Anderson County Sheriff’s Office was notified that a suspect who is […]

A 68-year-old Seneca man died in route to a Greenville hospital after an accident Wednesday morning near Townville.  Anderson Coroner Greg Shore said the cause of Richard William Grubbs’ death was multiple trauma injuries.  At the time, according to the state patrol, Grubbs was driving a Cadillac on SC 243.  The second vehicle involved was a box truck.

A New Mexico-based medical rehabilitation service has chosen Oconee County to build its first facility in the Carolinas.  Jamie Gilbert of the Oconee Economic Alliance said Clear Sky Health chose Oconee, after also considering Pickens County.  Clear Sky Health of Albuquerque plans a 36-bed facility that, Gilbert says, will be situated within a ten-minute drive of Prisma Health Oconee.  The […]