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The South Carolina Rural Infrastructure Authority (RIA) has approved grant assistance for 28 communities totaling more than $12 million to ensure safe drinking water for residents and provide infrastructure reliability for area businesses. Funds will be used for construction of pump stations, elevated water storage tanks, line extensions as well as upgrades to treatment plants. Recipients share in the cost […]
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Fans of the Clemson Tigers and South Carolina Gamecocks are being encouraged to roll up their sleeves and donate blood this week. This is a friendly competition for a good cause, says the American Red Cross. The 33rd annual Carolina-Clemson Blood Drive runs through Friday, Nov. 17. Donations are being accepted locally at the Clemson University Palmetto Ballroom inside Edgar […]
Read moreAn elderly man was killed in a Seneca crash Monday morning. Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol are investigating the fatal crash on Keowee River Road and Rochester Highway. According to troopers, the 79-year-old Pickens County man was traveling west when his vehicle ran off the right side of the road, over corrected, ran off the left side of […]
Read moreThe Board of Trustees for the School District of Oconee County (SDOC) holds a work session meeting tonight, Nov. 13, at 6pm. The meeting is open to the public and takes place in the School Board Conference Room at 414 South Pine Street in Walhalla.
Read moreThe Oconee County Parks, Recreation and Tourism (PRT) Commission meets on Thursday, Nov. 16. Among the items on the agenda are the Treasurer’s Report and a PRT update. There are no ATAX grants being presented as this meeting, this is just a business meeting of the PRT Commission. The public is welcome to attend the noon meeting at South Cove […]
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With the success of the Clemson Tigers football team this season, the Oconee Regional Airport is buzzing on home game day weekends, says Jeff Garrison, Director of the Oconee Regional Airport. “Well, just the buzz of Clemson football I think has made us busier and because of that on those busy games we decided that a temporary tower would be […]
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Prizes are being given out this month by the Oconee Economic Alliance (OEA) for Thinking Oconee, explains Daja Dial, Marketing and Communications Manager for the OEA. “We’re doing Think Oconee Thursday this month and that is a campaign to celebrate our birthday. Think Oconee turned 1-year-old this year in November and so throughout this entire month we are going to […]
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Take the family to a movie tonight at the Westminster Library. It’s Family Movie Night and the library will show a funny animated film, says Oconee County Public Library Director Blair Hinson. “We will be showing Cars 3 at the Westminster Library on Monday, Nov. 13, at 6pm. In this film, Lightning McQueen must try to get back into the […]
Read moreClemson announces the first Academic Cornerstone Gift made to the university, tells Robin Denny, Director of the Clemson University Media Relations Department. “Tom Chapman and his wife, Karen, are generous donors to the university and they have given a $4 million gift that will establish an endowment for the Thomas F. Chapman Leadership Scholars Program and create the Thomas F. […]
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If you have driven by Seneca City Hall on 1st Street you have seen equipment digging around the entrance. This work is being done to repair a leak in the basement of the building, explains Seneca Planning and Community Development Director Ed Halbig. “They found that some conduits that were coming into the building was leaking and we had to […]
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