Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
At their regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening, the Oconee County Council will consider requiring masks for everyone who enters county government buildings. Those building would include the library and its branches. The meeting will be held Tuesday evening at 5:30 pm in the Oconee County Council Chambers. The meeting may be viewed online via the county’s You Tube channel, which […]
Read moreFor Seneca BB&T in-bank business, customers are being referred to BB&T’s Clemson location on Tiger Boulevard. The location on the 123 By-pass in Seneca is temporarily closed due to COVID-19, according to signage on the front door of the building. No word on when the Seneca branch of BB&T will reopen.
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At the top of today’s Oconee School Board agenda is a report from superintendent Dr. Michael Thorsland on the start of school August 24. Thorsland’s report will go to Chairman Jerry Lee and the other four trustees. If there are any second thoughts about in-classroom instruction or distance learning, they are likely to be expressed during the meeting. However, at […]
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The Southeastern Conference will announce its 2020 football schedule tonight at 7 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. CT on a special show on the SEC Network. Last month, the SEC established September 26 as the new kickoff for its 2020 football season to allow its universities to focus on the healthy return of their campus communities and the gradual re-introduction […]
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According to jail records, 37 year-old Chase Landon Sanders of a Goddard Avenue address in Seneca was arrested Wednesday by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and charged with Grand Larceny. Reports stated that the victim parked his car and went for a swim in Lake Hartwell near Clemson. When he finished, he realized someone had stolen his car, which has […]
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The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 537 new confirmed cases and 16 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 9 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 105,466, probable cases to 1,031, confirmed deaths to 2,165, and 104 probable deaths. On Sunday Oconee County […]
Read moreAccording to reports, a moped rider was taken to the hospital late Friday night/early Saturday morning around midnight after an accident on Shiloh Road near Morgan Lane. Law Enforcement and EMS were said to have been on the scene within minutes. No word on the rider’s condition today, and no other details have been released at this time.
Read moreA deadly single vehicle motorcycle accident in Anderson County is under investigation by the South Carolina Highway Patrol. It happened Thursday night just after 8:00 pm on Jolly Wingo Road near Merrit Road, about five miles north of Anderson. Master Trooper Brandon Bolt has details…
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested 40 year old Natasha Catherine Reams of Seneca on a charge of First Degree Burglary. She was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center just before 6:00 am this past Thursday morning. Reams has also been charged by the Sheriff’s Office with Trespassing and Assault and Battery – 2nd Degree, and she faces a […]
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The possible locations of more than 200 unmarked graves have been found in Woodland Cemetery next to Memorial Stadium on the Clemson University campus, thanks to ground-penetrating radar. The graves are thought to be those of enslaved people who worked on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation from about 1830 to 1865, and later as sharecroppers and Black laborers, including […]
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