Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
The Sumter National Forest is conducting prescribed burns this week, through March 13th, in the Andrew Pickens Ranger District in Oconee County. On Monday, 1,347 acres on Russell Mountain along S.C. Highway 28 and the Chattooga River, north of Mountain Rest. Irena Justice with the US Forest Service told us that today’s burn is being conducted between Long Creek and […]
Read moreCOLUMBIA—With forecasts calling for low relative humidity and high wind speeds across the state Tuesday and Wednesday, the South Carolina Forestry Commission is encouraging the public to exercise the utmost vigilance when conducting outdoor burns of any kind. These conditions create a greater-than-average potential for outdoor fires to escape easily and spread rapidly, taking longer – and more of our […]
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On Saturday, at the 44th annual South Carolina EMS Symposium, the South Carolina EMS Association, in partnership with the South Carolina EMS Network, awarded Anderson County EMS the two highest awards available to EMS in the State of South Carolina. Anderson County EMS is the EMS System of the Year, and Anderson County EMS Director Steve Kelly is the EMS […]
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Oconee County, SC (Special Submission by Wayne Morton) — Thurman Coward is an 83-year old retired U.S. Navy petty officer with a pacemaker and one partially-functioning kidney. But through his efforts in the Oconee County community of Salem, he has delivered more than 30,000 pounds of food, clothing, and necessities to flood victims in northeastern Kentucky and continues to make […]
Read moreFair Play’s Churck Kormelink has registered his disappointment at Friday night’s news that, at least for now, developers’ plans for I-85 exit 1 are no more. He’s referring to the revelation that Sanctuary Pointe’s long-running lease for state property is going by the wayside. Kormelink, who has commercial properties at the interchange, has for years pressed for the extension of […]
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A fatal crash that happened Sunday on Concord Road in Anderson County is under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Master Trooper Tyler Tidwell with details… The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 29-year-old Morgan Michelle Horne, of Anderson.
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Friday night after a tornado watch was issued for the county, heavy rains and wind rolled through neighborhoods, and Saturday morning the long clean up began at a house on O Street in Anderson, where a tree landed on the home. No one was hurt, according to officials. Anderson wasn’t the only area that saw damage from storms. The National […]
Read moreA Friday evening phone call from a Sanctuary Pointe developer was a surprise. El Henry had what he called “disturbing” news to pass on. He and his partners received an email from an attorney for the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism announcing PRT had terminated Sanctuary Pointe’s long-running lease on a 325-acre peninsula which his group plans a […]
Read moreA 34-year old man in Walhalla is charged in arrest warrants with assault and battery 1st degree and attempts to burn a N. Poplar Street home and an occupant of that home – by allegedly pouring gasoline on her. Arrest records show Thomas James Littleton was arrested late Thursday afternoon by Walhalla Police and remains in custody with a total […]
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Tornado Watch Issued March 03 At 2:39pm Est Until March 03 At 8:00pm Est By Nws Storm Prediction Center Tornado Watch 63 Is In Effect Until 800 Pm Est For The Following Locations in SC . South Carolina Counties Included Are Abbeville Anderson Cherokee Greenville Greenwood Laurens Oconee Pickens Spartanburg Union
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