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Oconee County should be glad to unload the Golden Corner Commerce Park to an investor looking to build a solar farm, District 2 County Councilmember Wayne McCall said Tuesday. McCall claims it was a mistake for the county ever to buy the approximately 300-acre park off S.C. 59 near Fair Play because, he says, the park has been a “white […]
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Julian Davis will be chairman of the Oconee County Council for the second year in a row, but his tenure wasn’t uncontested. In the reorganization traditional to the first council meeting of a new year, District 5 Councilmember Glenn Hart nominated District 1 Councilmember John Elliot to the post ahead of a nomination of Davis by District 3 Councilmember Paul […]
Read moreAs the calendar turned last week to the year 2020, Oconee County sheriff’s officers and state constables conducted safety traffic checkpoints in which citations were issued and, in some cases, the drivers were removed from behind the wheel and sent to jail. Two of the checkpoints occurred in the Westminster area, with one taking place at Mountain Road at Clearmont […]
Read moreClemson has announced details for its National Championship Viewing Party Monday night on College Avenue between Keith Street and Highway 93. That section of College Avenue will be closed starting at 5pm and will re-open at 2:30am. Cars parked inside the event site after 5pm will be ejected. Two large screens will be placed at midfield near the police substation […]
Read moreOn Monday, Hamilton Career Center teachers were able to take a “hard-hat” tour of the new career center building. The tour began in what will be a large multi-purpose room available to all classes as well as serving as a meeting space for large groups. Teachers then broke up into smaller groups and were led on a tour of the […]
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A Seneca representative will now hold the gavel during meetings of the board that sets policy for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority. The JRSA’s long-time chairman, Walhalla’s Scott Parris, took himself out of consideration for a new term during the 2020 re-organization meeting of the sewer commissioners. In Parris’s spot will be Seneca’s Scott Moulder. Westminster’s Brian Ramey nominated Parris […]
Read moreThey did not put his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone, but the magazine reporter included what Larry Brandt, a Walhalla attorney, had to say about his former law partner, Lindsey Graham. And what Brandt has to say about how the U-S senator has deported himself in recent years adds to up to an unflattering opinion of his […]
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Design and engineering are underway on a new phase of Oconee County Sewer South—the one to bring piped sewer to I-85 in the hopes for economic development on Oconee’s four-mile stretch of the federal highway. The Joint Regional Sewer Authority is working with the Davis Floyd company, and the JRSA’s Chris Eleazer projects the possibility to extend sewer from the […]
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A vote 3-0 by the Westminster Planning Commission helps clear the way for a home development called Westminster Crossing. No one spoke in opposition during a hearing last night at the City Hall. Approved was a zoning change from residential-25 to residential-15. It’s said that potentially there are more than 100 lots to develop for new houses.
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