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Motorists’ patience is frequently tested by 123 backups at Clemson. Motorist (and home builder) Tom Markovich may have the solution, although it would be expensive and take time. It would be a new highway for traffic, especially thru traffic, to avoid 123 between College Avenue and the Seneca River Bridge on the Oconee side. He recently called on the Oconee […]
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In the next few months, a spay/neuter clinic building is to be added to the Oconee Animal Shelter near Seneca. The county Humane Society sees this as a step to reduce the pet overpopulation. Over the years, intake numbers at the Sandifer Boulevard shelter have dropped, yet nearly 3,000 cats and dogs arrive each year. Janet Barwick, board member, says, […]
Read moreIn their meeting tomorrow, Westminster City Council tackles the idea of an economic development law for their city. The council is to engage outside attorney Lawrence Flynn in a Zoom call and, in new business, first reading of an ordinance creating an economic development program that would set up an incentive program for private investment in a section of the […]
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Fire fighters were out late last night near Westminster. They were called to a brush fire on Cement Spring Road near Sunshine Ridge Road. First indications: they needed a little more than two hours to put a stop to that brush fire.
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A body found yesterday in Lake Hartwell, the coroner reports, is that of the young man who was the subject of a missing person’s report in Clemson. Oconee Coroner Karl Addis says Andruw Noel Earnhardt’s body was found by DNR officials yestereday morning around 10 o’clock in a cove near the 123 bridge and the railroad trestle that spans the […]
Read moreThomas Alexander, Oconee-Pickens Republican, supports a senate bill to break-up DHEC and split is responsibilities to a couple of newly-named departments. The senator and his medical affairs committee colleagues Thursday agreed to move the bill to the senate floor. Alexander acknowledges long-running complaints that DHEC has grown to large and, for the benefit of all, the duties can be re-assigned […]
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A child that was missing in a rural part of Oconee near Westminster has been found. The spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that, with deputies on the scene, the 3-year old child was found on Unity Church Road.
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The threat by Seneca to go forward with a legal challenge to the sewer board makeup will send two of the potential defendants into closed meetings on Monday for legal advice. Both the Walhalla City Council and the board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, in separate special meetings, are scheduled to hear from their legal advisers. As the result […]
Read moreIn a traffic stop, the Westminster police detained and jailed a 40-year old woman wanted as a fugitive from justice in Georgia. Matt Patterson, Westminster chief, says Jessica Marie Dubroc of Royston is wanted on the charge of burglary. The traffic stop occurred Tuesday on Westminster’s E. Main Street.
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The board of zoning appeals in Oconee County will sit in judgment later this month of an application for a special exception near Keowee Key. The applicant, Keowee Animal Hospital, is requesting an exception to allow the former Wells Fargo bank on the Rochester Highway to be converted to a veterinary hospital. The animal hospital seeks to keep the current […]
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