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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) have written to the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recommending that if a suitable location cannot be found on the African continent the AFRICOM headquarters should be moved to Charleston, South Carolina.   “We write to you regarding the Department of Defense’s plan to relocate the United States Africa […]

Over the weekend, Keep Oconee Beautiful held their Team Up to Clean Up event in the Utica community. Close to 130 volunteers turned up with gloves, masks, bags and heavy equipment to cleanse the area from the damages done in April when an EF-3 tornado hit the area. The volunteers, 29 of which were county employees, collected more than 58 […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 393 new confirmed cases and 14 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 13 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 134,884, probable cases to 3,240, confirmed deaths to 3,040, and 172 probable deaths. Pickens County confirmed seven […]

An opinion written over thirty years ago by then-South Carolina Assistant Attorney General Patricia Petway may apply to the heart of a legal dispute among Westminster city leaders as to whether or not a mayor or a council member may serve on a city council concurrently with his or her spouse being employed by the municipality. Petway noted in the […]

The Seneca Planning Commission will meet at 6:00 pm tonight at City Hall and entertain public comments on a couple of zoning change applications. The first hearing will be to switch a former child care center on South Fairplay Street from commercial to residential. The second surrounds four city lots adjoining the Shaver Recreation Complex, which the City wants designated […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 420 new confirmed cases and 30 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 13 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 134,494, probable cases to 3,214, confirmed deaths to 3,028, and 171 probable deaths. Seven new cases were […]

The City of Walhalla Water Department advises the residents of the Walhalla Water System, located in Oconee County that they no longer need to boil their water prior to drinking or cooking. Following an intense flushing of the distribution system, bacteriological samples were collected and analyzed by the City of Walhalla Water Department. The results of this sampling indicate that […]