Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
The School District of Oconee County (SDOC) holds a Teacher Work Day today, Oct. 23, that they are calling “Educator in Industry Day.” Teachers will spend their in-service day visiting local industries, explains Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Ginger Hopkins. “Monday, Oct. 23, has been designated “Educator in Industry Day”. The teachers are going to spend the day going out to […]
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The Westminster Advisory Council of the Oconee County Chamber of Commerce will host a political forum this evening, Oct. 23, at 6pm at the Westminster Music Centre located on Main Street. Candidates will answer questions submitted by residents of Westminster and talk about their vision for Westminster’s future.
Read moreTen people, including eight students, were injured Saturday afternoon in collisions involving school buses. Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol report that both collisions happened around 12:30pm on Highway 11 in Pickens County when one bus rear-ended a car, causing a second bus to rear-end the first bus. Two people in the car were taken to the hospital and […]
Read moreThe U.S. Small Business Administration announced today that federal Economic Injury Disaster Loans are available to small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and most private nonprofit organizations located in South Carolina as a result of the frost and freeze on March 4-17, 2017. The SBA’s disaster declaration includes the following counties: Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Anderson, Bamberg, […]
Read moreSouth Carolina Lt. Governor Kevin Bryant will be in Clemson on Monday, Oct 23. He is visiting George Rasula, who turned 95-year-old recently. His friends and neighbors threw him a party at Joe’s New York Pizza in Patrick Square in Clemson. The folks at Joe’s New York Pizza love George and have “adopted him”. Rasula joined the military in 1942 […]
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Crimestoppers of Oconee County, Inc. in partnership with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help in locating a Westminster woman who is wanted on three outstanding arrest warrants. 33-year-old Christy Ann Reed is wanted by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office on one count each of grand larceny, first degree burglary and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. […]
Read moreThe Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster woman Thursday on multiple charges, including charges of first degree burglary and grand larceny. Booked into the Oconee County Detention Center was 29-year-old Tiffany Pauline Moore after being transported from Myrtle Beach by deputies from the Warrants Division. The charges stem from an incident on Oct. 3, at an address on Carver […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will once again be putting down their razors to raise awareness of men’s health issues be participating in No Shave November to raise money for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. “The men in the Sheriff’s Office participated in No Shave November last year and I am once again endorsing our deputies’ participation in this initiative,” […]
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Duke Energy’s state president in South Carolina, Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe, will deliver the keynote speech at Tri-County Technical College’s (TCTC) Annual Report luncheon on Tuesday, Oct. 24. The luncheon, to be held at the College’s Pendleton Campus beginning at 11:30am, annually attracts approximately 250 community, business, industrial, government and political leaders from Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties. Mr. Ghartey-Tagoe is responsible […]
Read moreCrimestoppers of Oconee County, Inc. in partnership with the South Carolina Highway Patrol seeks the public’s help in regards to a recent hit and run accident that injured a West-Oak High School student. The accident occurred around 7:17pm on Friday, Oct. 6, on Stadium Drive at the campus of West-Oak High School, which is located on Highway 24. According to […]
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