Oconee County Public Library now offers assistance with a new Community Resource Associate

The Oconee County Public Library is moving into a new area of service to our community with the addition of a new Community Resource Associate, Kerry Leeper Brock. Kerry will have the role of partly a social worker (she is a licensed professional social worker), offering direct assistance to people in the community with everything from access to primary health […]

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Drugs and Breach of Trust Charges Filed According to Area Arrest Reports

On Monday, according to jail records, Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 46 year-old Peggy Beatrice Sullivan of Westminster on multiple counts of breach of trust and defrauding the state lottery. Sullivan was identified by a Stop-A-Minit loss prevention officer as a terminated employee at the store’s Highway 11 location south of Westminster. Investigators said they used camera surveillance footage from […]

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The Blood Connection Offering Community Members Chance to “Double Their Donation”

September to Honor Childhood Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Those who donate with The Blood Connection, the non-profit community blood center, are directly impacting the lives of people in this community; people like children battling cancer, or a neighbor suffering from Sickle Cell Disease. Those people rely on community blood donors every day to ensure lifesaving blood products needed for […]

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Patriotic Golf Carts will be on Parade at Westminster’s 2022 Apple Festival

The theme this year for Westminster’s annual South Carolina Apple Festival golf cart parade is “Proud To Be An American.” Those who’d like to be part of the parade riding in a golf cart are requested to decorate their golf carts in red, white, and blue. Not permitted, however, according to Westminster Senior Outreach will be political signs or advertisements. […]

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Recreation areas on Hartwell Lake open soon for hunting

SAVANNAH, Ga. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Hartwell Lake Office will open three of its larger Georgia recreation areas for archery and small game hunting during the regular 2022-2023 hunting season, and some South Carolina areas, too. Georgia areas include: 1.)  Hartwell Dam Quarry Area, Hart Co., Ga. (410 acres) – restricted to archery equipment only during deer and turkey seasons. Permit is required. […]

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OCSO Charges Westminster Man with Criminal Solicitation of a Minor

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man last Friday on a charge of Criminal Solicitation of a Minor. 43 year old Shane Adam Burdette was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on August 26th at around 4:17pm.  At this time, Burdette remains in jail on a $50,000 surety bond. The Sheriff’s Office investigation began last Friday morning […]

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