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While it seems that summer has just begun, if your family is new to Oconee County it is not too early to register your child for the 2015-2016 school year. Parents and guardians have an opportunity to register students and complete start-of-year paperwork online for the 2015-2016 school year using the Info Snap program. The district hopes this will streamline […]

Ryan Timmer, a 2015 Tri-County Technical College Mechatronics graduate, was among the BMW Scholars offered full-time employment following a graduation ceremony held June 11 at the company’s Greer plant. The BMW Scholars Program offers the workplace benefits of a traditional apprentice program found in Germany with the additional advantage of tuition and book assistance. Timmer, of Seneca, is working as […]

Over 20 student teams from across the country compete in the National Concrete Canoe Competition hosted by Clemson University, Saturday through Monday. The American Society of Civil Engineers holds the annual competition, which concludes with a race on Monday from 8am to noon at Campus Beach. This is the second time that Clemson University has hosted the national competition. A […]

The PNC Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to Project BEEMS (Building Environments for Early Mathematics Success), a Clemson University program that seeks to provide child care teachers and home-based caregivers with skills that support mathematics learning among young children. The project includes professional development, classroom site and home visits and a period of feedback and reflection. Clemson’s Eugene T. […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Easley teenager on two drug charges Wednesday morning as the result of a traffic stop. A deputy during routine road patrol operations around 2:35am observed a burgundy SUV with no tag lights and initiated a traffic stop on North Highway 11 and Flat Shoals Road. Two males occupied the vehicle with 17-year-old Joshua […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man on an outstanding warrant in a Breach of Trust case. A warrant obtained by a deputy on June 12 accuses 34-year-old Larry Eugene Price, Jr. of receiving around $3,500 in cash from an individual in Seneca who gave him the money for materials to do a roofing job. The victim told […]

The Seneca Fire Department reports that an 18-wheeler rear-ended a CAT Bus on Highway 123, leaving nine people with minor injuries. The collision happened around 10:45am Wednesday on Highway 123 at Carson Road. The all-electric bus was running an express route between Seneca and Clemson. There were 12 passengers on the bus and nine of those were taken to Oconee […]

The Pickens County Sheriff’s office arrested Semeca Danyelle Oglesby of Liberty Wednesday afternoon and charged her with aiding an escape from prison. Oglesby was arrested at a home in Norris after an investigation revealed she arranged for the transport of two escaped inmates from the Pickens County Stockade. Deputies report that she was present when the escapees were picked up […]

A Greenville man sits behind bars charged with helping two men escape from the Pickens County Stockade on June 9. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office announces that 46-year-old William David Burns was arrested Tuesday afternoon without incident and charged with aiding escape from prison. The investigation into last week’s escape by Dustin Ryan Floyd and Jeffery Shane Mauldin revealed that […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man Tuesday afternoon on an outstanding criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature warrant. After being transported from the Franklin County, Georgia Detention Center, 28-year-old Javaris Dante Montgomery was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center. A deputy met with the victim on April 22 at an address at BI-LO […]