Tag: News

A mobile home burned yesterday morning in the Friendship Community near Seneca.  No one was found at the Rowdy Circle residence, although Chief Hollifield of Oconee Emergency Services said there were indications someone lived there off-and-on.  The fire is being investigated.

Clemson Councilwoman Catherine Watt, censured by her colleagues, has gone to court to try to overturn the censure and to win additional relief.  Her lawsuit, filed yesterday in Pickens Common Pleas, names the city, the city council, the mayor, and four of her council colleagues.  Watt and the defendants have been at loggerheads over the controversial vote that approved the […]

West Union Mayor Linda Oliver believes town council will approve a new agreement with Walhalla for the supply of water.  The council is advised by its attorney that two ordinance readings will be required.  The deal, Oliver says, will raise the charges that West Union customers pay.  In the first year alone, the increase will amount to an additional $4.50 […]

Westminster’s new outside CPA delivered the best financial news the city could expect when he presented the audit of city revenues and expenses.  The city gets an unmodified opinion of how it handles the public’s money. In the fiscal year 2024, Westminster paid more to reflect the hiring of five additional members of the workforce.  The Love Bailey firm of […]

A bill passed in the U-S House that restricts transgender students from taking part in school athletics.  It’s a victory for Republican Sheri Biggs, the new representative from the South Carolina 3rd District, as well as the GOP’s House majority.  From Washington, Biggs made this statement: “…For these women, the countless hours of training and preparation to be the very […]

The organization that recruits Oconee economic development will stage its annual meeting next month, a luncheon event to take place February 20 at the Keowee Key Country Club.  Meeting business will include a review of last year, the presentation of the 2025 Dave Eldridge Award, as well as keynote speaker Dewey Evans on “Making Dirt Work for Industry.” Evans is […]

Westminster is likely to come to grips to expend additional money for police and fire protection in the next year.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, urged city council to consider a lease-purchase arrangement for two or three new police cars.  One of the department’s Tahoe’s was recently wrecked. And the hiring of new officers to fill vacancies also drives the need […]

Word spread in Westminster last evening of a deal struck to bring a McDonald’s restaurant to E. Main Street.  The location will be the former Spinx convenience store property, across from the Main Street/West-Oak Highway traffic light intersection and diagonally across from the closed Burger King.

A 22-year-old man near Seneca is the subject of a missing person’s report.  Oconee Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help to locate George Tony Webb Jr., who a family member reported missing Sunday afternoon.  Webb was last seen at his home on December 31 in the area of Sitton Mill Road.  He has red hair, hazel eyes, and a tattoo […]