Keowee Elementary to participate in Earth Day

Keowee Elementary announces its participation in the 21st annual Earth Day Groceries Project. Students have decorated paper grocery bags with environmental messages. On Earth Day, April 22, these bags will be passed out, full of groceries to shoppers at Ingles in West Union. Besides carrying an environmental message, each bag will also have the name of Keowee Elementary School and […]

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New Bus Stop under construction in Seneca

If you ride by the all-electric CAT bus stop on Railroad Street in downtown Seneca you will notice construction underway. B.J. Klaren, Building Official for the City of Seneca, says a new shelter complete with bathrooms is currently under construction. “They have permitted to make a bus stop down there with the bathrooms. They are actually moving the stop from […]

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OC Library honors Volunteers

Volunteers were treated to dinner Friday night in recognition for their hard work in the five branches of the Oconee County Public Library. Volunteers from the Book Mobile, Salem, Seneca, Walhalla and Westminster Branches were publicly thanked for their hours of service as part of National Volunteer Week and National Library Week. Two awards were also presented, explains Oconee County […]

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Rain, Rain go Away

Almost a quarter inch of rain fell in Walhalla this morning adding to a wet week in the county seat of Oconee County. U.S. Weather Observer Barbara Wilson gives the latest rain totals from her station in Walhalla. “Just this morning from 7am through about 8:30am that storm gave us about .23 and there was some thunder with that but […]

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Dome rising planned at Walhalla Presbyterian Church

Weather permitting a special event takes place on Wednesday, April 22, at Walhalla Presbyterian Church in Walhalla. The church is scheduled to receive and put in place the new dome on Walhalla Presbyterian Church. The dome and parts of the Sanctuary were destroyed by fire on Sept. 14, 2013. The Sanctuary was originally completed and the first service was held […]

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GE Executive to address TCTC Grads

Bernie Anger, general manager of GE Intelligent Platforms, a business unit within GE Energy Management based in Charlottesville, Virginia, will deliver Tri-County Technical College’s spring commencement address on May 8 at 6pm in the Anderson Civic Center. Approximately 662 students will be awarded degrees, diplomas or certificates during the College’s commencement. In addition to families and guests of the graduates, […]

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Sex Offender sentenced to 22 Years

An Anderson man was sentenced to the maximum penalty in a case of criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Tenth Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams reports that Jonathan Manuel Shore pled guilty in Anderson General Sessions Court to one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor in the second degree and one count of lewd act on a minor. He […]

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More arrests in Operation Infinity Drug Sweep

Five more people are behind bars as part of the ninth “Operation Infinity” drug sweep. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office along with all five municipal police departments in the county as well as the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources are participating in the countywide drug roundup that began on April 8. Officers had warrants on 41 individuals on a […]

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Crash turns Fatal for Westminster Man

An 83-year-old Westminster man died Friday at Greenville Memorial Hospital, one week after sustaining a traumatic injury in a two-vehicle collision near Seneca. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said Thomas Kudro died from complications of a fracture to his spinal column. His manner of death is classified as accidental. The two-vehicle crash occurred around 2:30pm on April 10 at the […]

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