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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help regarding a fraud investigation that stretches to other parts of the Carolinas. A deputy spoke with the victim on the afternoon of March 11th, and was told that someone had obtained information from the victim, then made multiple fraudulent card transactions at Home Depots in Columbia and Charlotte. Investigators said […]

Anderson County Summary Courts Criminal, Traffic, and Civil Court Cases have been postponed through April 13.This includes all Bench and Jury Trials both criminal, traffic and civil. Anderson County officials have decided to restrict public access to County buildings effective immediately. AnMed Health will conduct screening (not testing) for COVID-19 outside the entrance of the Emergency Department (ED) and potentially […]

Tuesday was a dark day in Westminster, but the lights are back on now. A consultant for the city, Richard Tucker, said that the problems arose from a lack of preventative maintenance. He did say that had city officials not had the foresight to get a backup transformer, the power might still be out… Even though the power was out, […]

In what was a first in county history, the Oconee County Council on Tuesday held a regular public meeting from which the public was excluded. County officials explained that the unusual step was in accord with interpretations of state law regarding open meetings and a measure believed prudent in light of the current pandemic of the COVID-19 virus that has […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is warning people of a potential COVID-19 scam. The Sheriff’s Office was notified by a citizen that they received a call from something called the Coronavirus Hotline that stated that if they were on Medicare that they would eligible to receive a free Coronavirus home test kit, which is certainly untrue. The citizen spoke with […]

In a statement issued just this morning, SDOC officials said, “We are aware that our Walhalla area breakfasts were extremely poor and not adequate this morning. There was a communication issue that has been corrected. Please be assured that all future meals will be more substantial and nutritious. Breakfasts in the Seneca and West-Oak area did not have the same […]

Westminster’s entire supply of electricity went down this morning, and reports indicate that it would not be restored until sometime in the afternoon. All of Westminster’s customers are being affected by the outage. Duke Energy, which supplies the reactor with electricity for the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency, said that the “issue is with the town’s equipment.” They added that they […]