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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office and Oconee Addiction Recovery and Solutions, in partnership with Oconee County Administrator Amanda Brock and Oconee County Council, are announcing today that grants have been awarded to help Oconee County citizens who are suffering from drug addiction and those at the Oconee County Detention Center in regards to mental health care. The first grant, in […]

DHEC announced 1,319 new confirmed cases and 17 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 1 additional confirmed death and no new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 169,228, probable cases to 8,795, confirmed deaths to 3,687, and 249 probable deaths. Anderson County added 97 new cases, while there were 45 confirmed in Pickens […]

A new piece of federal legislation, called the Reaching America’s Rural Minority Business Act, is being co-sponsored by Senator Tim Scott and addresses rural, minority owned businesses by offering technical assistance, training and education. As many as ten business centers at historically black colleges and universities could be established by the Commerce Department to serve rural and beleaguered communities if […]

With the final countdown of days until the November 3rd General Election, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is issuing an advisory today to remind our citizens that stealing campaign signs is against the law. “I have recently received some phone calls and spoken with some of our citizens regarding campaign signs that they have displayed that reportedly have been stolen,” […]

Mayor Dan Alexander signed a Proclamation marking Sunday, November 1st as National Family Literacy Day. The United States began marking National Family Literacy Day in 1994, and National Family Literacy is celebrated throughout the month of November. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it more important to recognize the importance of reading to children from birth, which helps to instill a […]

We will get an extra hour of sleep and an extra hour of Halloween this weekend. Daylight Saving Time ends this coming Sunday morning, November 1st at 2:00 am, so be sure to turn back any analog clocks by one hour, like the one on the microwave. Cell phones will reset themselves, generally. And, for the first time in decades, […]

City officials planning the 2020 Seneca Christmas Show have recovered a piece of nostalgia they hope will stir holiday emotions. The Harper’s Five and Dime Store Santa was a popular window display going back as far as the 1950’s in Seneca, and now what was once thought to be long gone has been recovered. City Administrator Scott Moulder said that […]