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Spartanburg physician Shannelle Campbell says being a surgeon allows her to combine her love of science and her desire to help people.  While attending Clemson University, Dr. Campbell earned a bachelor’s in biochemistry and volunteered at free clinics in Seneca and her hometown of Columbia.  One of her first rotations as a third-year medical student at Yale was in pediatric […]

9.1%.  That was the COVID test positivity across South Carolina on Saturday–the first time it has dropped below 10% in quite some time.  If accurate, it may be testimony to the belief COVID-19 has begun somewhat wane.

Look for the sunny sky to turn a possibly gray shade today as the result of a new prescribed burn carried out by the U-S Forest Service in Oconee County.  A spokesman says this burn in the Yellow Branch section of the forest is to cover 213 acres.

Fire this morning near Seneca has apparently severely burned one person, and spread to a nearby patch of woods.  According to Richie Caudill, the fire is believed to have originated in a homeless camp in the vicinity of Utica;’s Goddard Avenue–an attempt by those inhabiting the camp to keep warm from this morning’s 25 to 30 degree temperatures.

The South Carolina Daughters of the American Revolution Andrew Pickens and Fort Prince George Chapters calls public attention to the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit Saturday, February 19 from 10 am to 4 pm at Nettles Park, 102 Nettles Park Road. The event is free to all.

A statement scheduled to have been made today by the office of the U-S prosecutor in South Carolina about a continuing case of child sex trafficking which ensnared a man who had worked as a Fair-Oak Elementary school officer has been postponed.  Spokesman Derek Shoemake of the U-S Attorney’s Office said, “Our office has decided to wait until the last […]

South Carolina takes pride in reporting the largest number of Baltimore orioles in the country.  And, for the first time, the annual survey received a report from Oconee County. The state DNR is interested in the status and distribution of the colorful songbirds that winter in South Carolina.  If you currently have Baltimore orioles coming to your feeders or have […]

Former Oconeean Mark Powell’s fondness for the outdoors led him to author a magazine piece based on the venture that he and family took late last year to a remote, but beautiful part of the county adjoining Lake Tugaloo and northeast Georgia.  “It’s absolutely a beautiful watershed…an absolute ecological hot spot”, as Powell put it this week in a 101.7/WGOG […]

Sen. Tim Scott has introduced a bill to improve health care for persons dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare.  The bill is titled, “Supporting Care for Dual Eligibles Act”.  “Individuals who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid have some of the greatest health needs in our nation, yet they are often left with fragmented care,” said the South Carolina […]