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An Oconee County task force team has produced a 2018 Public Transportation Survey allowing residents to provide input into future electric bus service. Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander encourages everyone to take the survey and make their opinions known. “Being able to have that survey and I know in those areas that I have heard a lot of people say they […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) reports that two people have been referred to their health care providers after being potentially exposed to rabies by a kitten that tested positive for the disease in Pickens County. The exposures occurred when the victims were bitten or scratched by a kitten near the City of Liberty. The kitten […]

A search of Lake Hartwell Sunday afternoon proved unwarranted, reports Oconee County Deputy Chief of Special Operations and Emergency Manager Scott Krein. “We had a report of a possible jumper off of the railroad trestle that was investigated and after diving and using some sonar techniques we did not find anything and believe that possibly it was just a missed […]

The Oconee County Chamber of Commerce encourages you to get your tickets to Farm Oconee now. Tickets for the Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, event from 5:30-7:30pm are $30 per person. A great dinner is planned and will be prepared by Chef Sandeep Pantey, Executive Chef at The Cliffs Communities. In continued celebration of Oconee County’s Sesquicentennial, Retired Clemson Extension Agent […]

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at Griffin Grocery located at 1804 Pumpkintown Highway on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. Surveillance video collected during the investigation confirms that at approximately 6:15pm, a white male believed to be in his late 20’s or early 30’s walked into the business and presented a dark colored, semi-automatic handgun […]

More students are eating a well-balanced diet in the School District of Oconee County (SDOC). A new Food Service Dinner Program was recently launched ensuring that students eat well throughout the day, explains SDOC Chief Financial Officer Gloria Moore. “We have a program that is through the U.S.D.A. just like our lunch and breakfast programs, but it is administered by […]

There are no known storm-related outages on the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative system thanks to the hard work done by crews to keep the power on in the Upstate of South Carolina, explains Vice President of Communications Terry Ballenger. “Well I think we would consider ourselves fortunate here in the northwestern corner of the state in that we did have […]

The School District of Oconee County (SDOC) has released school and district numbers for enrollment on day 15, tells Associate Superintendent of Administration Steve Hanvey. “Well on the 15th day we had 10,628 students in the district and across it has played about like we expected when we did our projections. Seneca Middle is a little higher than we had […]