Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Tuesday announced 739 new confirmed cases and 30 additional confirmed deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 137,406, probable cases to 3,383, confirmed deaths to 3,067, and 176 probable deaths. Eight new confirmed cases were reported Tuesday in Oconee County, along with one death; seventeen confirmed and one probable […]
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From Seneca Police: On 09.12.20 at approximately 2:10am, Seneca Police responded to a shooting at Fair Oaks Apartments (1200 Fairoaks Circle) and located Charles Clark who had been shot multiple times. Officers immediately began to render medical aid to the victim including bandages and over six minutes of chest compressions. Emergency medical personnel arrived and undertook life-saving efforts, but the […]
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COLUMBIA, S.C. – The state’s one-stop website, accelerate.sc.gov, now provides South Carolinians a single place to see the latest data about economic revitalization efforts, COVID-19 statistics and many other topics. Citizens can access the accelerateSC dashboards by visiting accelerate.sc.gov. Once on the site, a quick scroll down the homepage will take users to the dashboards. The dashboards include the following tabs: Employment, Education, […]
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Yet another annual tradition is canceled due to the novel coronavirus. For almost thirty years, as many as 200 volunteers at Our Daily Bread show up on Thanksgiving morning to “Feed the 5,000”. Concerns over the pandemic and social distancing led to organizers canceling the event this year. In lieu of the yearly event of preparing hundreds of Thanksgiving meals, […]
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The Clemson Farmers Market and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute are announcing a candidate town hall for 5 to 6 pm Thursday evening on the Green Stage at the Patrick Square Village, featuring candidates for Clemson mayor, city council, and the state legislature. It’s a chance to hear candidates entered in the November General Elections. The League of Women Voters […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Read moreClemson University has canceled it’s homecoming activities, such as the annual Tigerama, the parade and float builds, due to COVID-19. Those plans were set for October 23 and 24. Clemson also announced plans for May and August grads to have commencement ceremonies at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville from November 13 to 15.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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