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According to jail records, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested 32 year-old Dean Vernon Dreibelbis, Jr. Sunday on multiple offenses. He is in the Oconee County Detention Center on charges of failure to stop for blue lights, reckless driving, operating an unregistered vehicle, speeding more than 25 mph over the limit, two counts of receiving stolen goods and removing the […]

According to reports, two people were treated at an area hospital after boats collided on Lake Keowee late Saturday night, around 11:45 p.m., near the Fall Creek Landing. According to crews, a bass boat struck a pontoon boat, which resulted in two injured people. Those two victims were transported to a hospital for treatment. The South Carolina’s Department of Natural […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed the state’s first cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19. Two children are the first in the state with a confirmed diagnosis of MIS-C, a rare health condition recently recognized to occur in some children and teenagers who have contracted COVID-19 […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Today, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed the state’s first pediatric death associated with COVID-19. The COVID-19-associated death of a child under the age of five from the Midlands region was reported to the agency on July 11. To protect the privacy of the child and their family, no other patient information will be […]

From Prisma Health Officials: Prisma Health will pilot an 11-hour community testing event – almost three times as long as its usual community testing event – in Seneca on Tuesday, July 14. The community testing event will run 8 a.m. – 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 14, at Blue Ridge Elementary School, at 995 S. Oak Street. Prisma Health’s previous community […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 1,725 new confirmed cases and no new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 26 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. There are currently 1,438 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19, and 177 of those patients are on ventilators. This brings the total […]

Director of Public Health for the Department of Health and Environmental Control Dr. Joan Duwve joined Governor Henry McMaster for a press conference this morning at 11:00 am and said that South Carolina has seen a sharp increase in the number of young adults infected with COVID-19… COLUMBIA, S.C. – To help reduce the transmission of COVID-19 between young adults in […]

An organization that helps people get off government assistance and become productive members of society reaches a milestone next Friday and Saturday when it opens a resale store in Seneca. The new Ripple of One store in the Oconee Square Shopping Center will help the organization raise money that eventually is used as a reward for people who reach goals […]

On behalf of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Acting Director-General Daniel Hung of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Atlanta donated 92,000 surgical masks to the State of South Carolina on July 7th to support the state’s front-line medical workers in their fight against COVID-19. South Carolina state government agencies worked together to ensure the delivery […]