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A Seneca man has been cited by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office for illegally soliciting from the public while on Wal-Mart store property near Seneca. A deputy says he encountered a man Friday night standing on the median facing traffic headed to the traffic light on the Sandifer Boulevard – a sign that read “Need anything to get by the day, […]
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The following announcement today from the Oconee Sheriff’s Office: “A Seneca man is out of jail on a combined $75,000 personal recognizance bond after his arrest last Friday on three counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – First Degree. 27 year old Marquis Dequavious Hunter, of W.S. 4th Street, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around […]
Read moreSmoke is liable to be visible later today from SC 28 and the Cassidy Bridge Road, Mountain Rest, as USDA’s Forest Service conducts a prescribed burn of about 200 acres. A spokesman predicts the smoke will be minimal. The burn will commence around 11:30 this morning and completed around 5 pm. The purposes include wildlife habitat and fuels reduction.
Read moreThe first Tuesday meeting of Oconee County Council tomorrow night has been called off. The cancellation announcement made this morning by Jennifer C. Adams, clerk to the council. The next regular council meeting is planned February 21.
Read moreBraelyn Nicole Wood is the West-0ak High School student who wears the crown this year of Miss West-0ak. She prevailed in Saturday night’s school pageant. Braelyn’s court includes the following pageant contestants: Bella Lynch, runner-up; Hannah Nicole Dobbs, Miss Senior; Sarah Myers, Miss Congeniality; Erin Page Redmond, Sweetheart Queen; Cara Ann Cooper, People’s Choice Miss Warrior; Emma Claire Edgar, Miss […]
Read moreOconee Humane Society volunteers, along with a charity website, have made possible free dog food for pet owners. While supplies last today, the free dog food will be dispensed from 10:30 to 4:30 today at the shelter at 1925 Sandifer Boulevard.
Read moreIn a two-hour exercise, church and civic club members from the Walhalla-West Union area packaged 18 thousand meals to be flown to countries that have the greatest hunger needs. All bays in the West Union Fire Department were emptied of engines and pumpers Saturday morning, as around 100 people turned out in an event led by the organization Rise Against […]
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State troopers report the pickup involved in Friday night’s fatal accident near the Madison Community hit tree stumps and a fence along a rural secondary road in the vicinity of Berry Farm Road and the Cleveland Pike. Twenty-year-old Westminster resident Avery Lee King died at 11:52 pm. Coronere Addis said King’s death is classified Accidental.
Read moreAn action item for Monday’s meeting of Oconee’s policymakers for sewer has been removed from the agenda. It’s the item that would have given the executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority the go ahead to execute a contract for Sewer South Phase Two. Monday evening’s agenda has been amended by the following explanation: “This item (Sewer South Phase […]
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A Seneca man is under arrest by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office on Kidnapping and weapon charges in an investigation in which the victims were two teenagers. 50 year old Martin Altamirano Pena Altamirano, of E. Main Street, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:52pm Friday. Altamirano has been charged with two counts of Kidnapping, two […]
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