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Due to a water main break, Westminster Elementary and West-Oak Middle Schools are without water.  According to officials from Westminster, the break will not be fixed before lunch time at the earliest. Westminster Elementary School students who are car-riders may be picked up now; buses will leave the school at 9:30am to return bus riders home.  West-Oak Middle School students will not report […]

The family of a Walhalla man, who the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate, has partnered with Crimestoppers of Oconee County, Inc. to offer a $1,000 reward for information leading to him. 36 year old Joshua Scott Ivester is a white male, 5’11”, 190 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair.  He was last seen wearing a camouflage […]

WASHINGTON – In light of new reports alleging New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff engaged in a cover-up of New York’s nursing home COVID-19 death toll, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) yesterday sent a letter to Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling for the Committee to investigate Cuomo’s COVID-19 cover-up. He was joined by eight […]

The volume of trash handled by Oconee Solid Waste has risen substantially since the coronavirus pandemic began. At this week’s county council meeting, the county’s solid waste director Swain Still said that it’s due to the fact that since more people have been confined to their homes, they have done more cleaning, which means more waste at the convenience centers, […]

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a Wednesday night crash that happened at about 6:30 pm at East North 1st Street and US Hwy 123. Reports stated that a Prisma Ambulance was transporting a critical patient when it collided with a passenger car at the intersection. That lone passenger and the ambulance crew sustained only minor injuries, and a […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a request by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC to increase by approximately 1.6 percent the reactor capacity of Oconee Nuclear Station Units 1, 2, and 3. The NRC staff determined that Duke Energy could safely increase all three reactors’ heat output, primarily through more accurate means of measuring feedwater flow. The power uprate for Oconee, […]

US Congressman for South Carolina’s 3rd District Jeff Duncan told a Washington hearing this week that the electric grid instability in Texas is evidence that nuclear power plays a critical role in the quest for clean energy and reducing carbon emissions. He called attention to Duke’s Oconee plant which is one of the largest in the country, and he also […]

Oconee County Council voted at their meeting this week in favor of extending the current mask and face covering ordinance until at least June 30th. According to language in the ordinance, which went into effect in August, states that “anyone working in or visiting a county government building, including all branches of the local library, will be required to wear […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster woman and Seneca man yesterday on charges related to a February 2nd pursuit that began in Oconee County and ended in Jackson County, NC. 22 year old Amy Denise Fleming and 30 year old Artis O’Neal Wright were booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:50pm and 2:15pm respectively after being […]

A project that should take about six months to complete and will hopefully make Seneca’s East North First Street friendlier to both businesses and pedestrians is in the works according to city administrator Scott Moulder…