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South Carolina now has a new law covering sexual exploitation.  The governor last week signed the Gavin’s Law bill which makes sexual exploitation, the act of blackmailing someone using sexually explicit images or videos, a felony offense.  And, if the victim is a minor or a vulnerable adult, it becomes an aggravated felony.  A person convicted of felony sexual extortion […]

Here are three additional political qualifiers in Oconee County town and city races this November: Audrey Reese is seeking re-election to the Westminster City Council. Mayor Lynn Towe and Councilman Kevin Talley, both of Salem, seek re-election.  

If you spot low-flying military-style choppers this week in the skies above Oconee, Pickens and Greenville, it’s likely to be special training benefitting both local and state public safety responders.  Oconee First Responders will be training this week with SC-HART–the South Carolina Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team.  The training scenarios will include low-flying National Guard Black Hawk and Lakota helicopters, with […]

  Oconee Adult Education is taking registration for the upcoming September Orientation/Intake for GED and High School Diploma and the Family Literacy Program. The Family Literacy program offers free childcare for registered students. Classes begin September 11th. you can reach Oconee Adult Education at 864-718-4812.

An early Saturday night motorcycle accident on SC 28/the Highlands Highway, injured a passenger on a motorcycle.  The6:30 pm accident occurred at the entrance to Stumphouse Tunnel Park and created a traffic backup in that section of the windy mountain, two-lane highway.  Walhalla Fire Department arranged a medi-helicopter transport flight for the injured female, with the chopper landing at Rocky […]

Moses and Malkot LLC goes in front of Seneca’s Planning Commission seeking a zoning change at WS 4th Street and Dalton Road.  Property there is now zoned residential-10.  Tonight’s hearing centers on a change to RM-16.  In other matters, the planning commissioners will take up freight containers and land disturbance.  They meet at 6 pm.

A 33-year old Fair Play man hurt in a Friday afternoon accident on the Anderson County side of Townville died later in hospital.  The Anderson County Coroner’s Office said the victim from a mid-afternoon accident on the Dobbins Bridge Road near Ledford Road was Shawn David Cater.  The state patrol said Cater was driving a Chevy SUV that apparently went […]

Town hall meetings are common in New England as a way for government there to do business, but quibbling over some words appears to have created an obstacle to scheduling an Oconee County town hall meeting.  The county Republican Party today released comments by its chairman, Jim Mann, along with a printed copy of what Matthew Durham, the county council […]

An Oconee lawyer in his spare time has developed a card game for which he has hopes to market nationally.  Tjay Bagwell calls the game “Marvel Mastermind” and got the idea from accessing card and board games on the internet which prompted in him the idea that he could build a game.  And market it to a publisher with the […]