Tag: News

An Oconee deputy spoke with a victim of what appears to have been a recent sweetheart scam.  In these times, the use of social media can be an avenue to true romance, but can lead to a scam.  The deputy learned that the victim, a female, met someone on a dating app and started to form a relationship.  She sent […]

Now that a roundabout is ruled out for a tricky Oakway intersection, what’s the status of an overall project to improve public safety along SC 24–from Westminster across the water into Anderson County?  Another question is:  Without a circular intersection to move traffic, how might the DOT address 24, 182, and Oak Creek Road at Oakway?  Julian Davis has been […]

For football fans who park in city of Clemson parking decks, you might have to pay more in season 2022.  Discussion of a proposed fee increase to apply to the downtown parking decks is an item on this Monday night’s meeting of the Clemson City Council.  The city’s elected officials are scheduled to hear about this from their community and […]

The police in Lavonia, Georvgia believe as many as three people, in form or another, took part in the Tuesday robbery of a Truist bank.  Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR quotes the police chief as saying the suspects are not from the Lavonia and do not pose a further threat in the community.  The man who robbed the bank is described […]

If approved, the contract will be in the neighborhood of $4 million.  Next week Oconee County County Council will be asked to approve the award to Hubbard Paving and Grading of a contract to work on as much as 18 miles of county roadway.  Kyle Reid of the county Public Works Department estimates the actual work would cost between $3.6 […]

The Columbia FBI office warns parents and caregivers about a rise in national incidents involving the sextortion of children over the internet.  Sextortion is a crime.  It is illegal for an adult to ask for, pay for, or demand graphic images, also known as child sex abuse material, from a minor.  If convicted, offenders face penalties up to life in […]

A bank robbery went down early afternoon yesterday at Lavonia, Georgia.  Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR quotes a police officer as saying that at 1:16 yesterday afternoon a black male entered the Truist Bank on Jones Street and demanded money.  It was unknown if the intruder left on foot or in a vehicle.  Assistant Police Chief Daniel Carson said a K-9 […]