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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Data being analyzed by Clemson University shows a significant level of COVID-19 infections in Greenville County residents. The non-profit Renewable Water Resources stated the program started in early June to test SARS-CoV-2 levels and will continue with tests through the end of the year. Renewable Water Resources collects samples twice a week from the Mauldin Road treatment plant, which serves […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 907 new confirmed cases and 27 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 35 additional confirmed deaths and 11 new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 103,051, probable cases to 858, confirmed deaths to 2,089, and 97 probable deaths. Oconee County confirmed six […]