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Five Anderson School District Four schools have joined the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail. The schools, Pendleton Elementary, Mt. Lebanon Elementary, La France Elementary, Riverside Middle School, Pendleton High School and Townville Elementary participated. Students from various art classes learned about the Quilt Trail and quilt patterns from various periods of time. Students were then challenged to create their own design […]

Soon CAT Bus riders will have a new stop in downtown Seneca complete with restrooms and covered seating. Sherman Construction is nearing completion on the new amenities to the CAT Bus Stop on Railroad Street, explains Seneca Planning and Development director Ed Halbig. “They are installing the bathroom fixtures now. Obviously, they have finished doing the rock and they are […]

Oconee and Pickens county rescue crews searched nearly four hours for a drowning victim Saturday afternoon on Lake Keowee. However, the victim was at home, explains Oconee County Fire Chief Charlie King. “Saturday afternoon, we had a gentleman call in to 911 shortly after 4pm reporting that his friend had jumped into Lake Keowee off a boat and did not […]

Congratulations to Clemson University’s Millie Davenport and Paul Thompson for receiving the 2015 Achievement Award and Distinguished Service Award, respectively, at the National Association of County Agricultural Agents annual meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. These peer-elected awards recognize excellence in Extension programming. Read this entire release online at www.clemson.edu.

Clemson University is the recipient of a $40,000 grant from AdvanceSC for a program to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) literacy among Upstate students. The program is held in cooperation with Tri-County Technical College and the Anderson, Oconee and Pickens County school districts. The grant will support an integrative STEM education institute and follow-up professional development workshops that […]

The School District of Oconee County announces its participation in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and the School Breakfast Program (SBP) for the 2015-2016 school year. All registered students are eligible to participate in the NSLP and the SBP and are awarded benefits based on family size and income. A completed application for the 2015-2016 school year must be […]

The Oconee County Public Library System’s Friends of the Library organization announces that they have made possible the construction and installation of two Little Free Libraries in Fair Play. One is located in the Lake Hartwell State Park at 19138 South Highway 11 and the other is in the gazebo at Fair Play Presbyterian Church at 201 Fair Play Church […]

Oconee County authorities say charges are forthcoming against a man after his false story about a friend on his boat disappearing while swimming in Lake Keowee kept rescuers busy for hours. Oconee County 911 received a call Saturday afternoon about a drowning on Lake Keowee after the caller said their friend jumped in the water but did not resurface. Divers […]

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis announces that a 45-year-old Seneca man died Friday afternoon, Aug. 7, after a near head on collision at 5:55pm near Strawberry Farm Road, south of Seneca. Oconee County Deputy Coroner Greg Long pronounced David B. Owens dead at the scene. Long reported that he died from blunt force chest trauma. The South Carolina Highway Patrol […]

An Easley man died Saturday night when his motorcycle struck a deer. Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley pronounced 62-year-old James Bradley Grimes dead at the scene. Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol say the collision occurred around 10:15pm on SC 11, seven-miles west of Pickens. Grimes was traveling north on SC 11 when a deer entered the road headed […]