Category: News

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has successfully located a previously missing elderly woman. 72-year-old Joyce A. Massey of Salem, who was last seen in Seneca on Saturday afternoon, was reported missing by a family member. Officials announced on Sunday morning that she has been found and is safe.

The City of Westminster Public Works has informed residents living on N. Horseshoe Bridge Rd, all roads off of N. Horseshoe Bridge Rd, and north up Hwy 76 all the way to the Welcome Church community in Oconee County, that they no longer need to boil their water prior to drinking or cooking. The second set of bacteriological testing has […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed that a skunk found near Whitmire Hill and Gilstrap roads in Liberty, S.C. has tested positive for rabies. No people are known to have been exposed at this time. One dog was exposed and will be quarantined as required in the South Carolina Rabies Control Act. […]

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating after a pedestrian was killed on I-85 early Friday morning in Anderson County. Master Trooper Mitchell Ridgeway has details… The Anderson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 36-year-old Efren Antonio Gomez Mongado.

A rather sizeable crowd was on hand at the Blue Ridge Electric Co-op Community Room for the Oconee Chamber of Commerce and Economic Alliance’s Community Breakfast Friday morning. The two-hour event featured guest speakers Senator Thomas Alexander, Representative Bill Whitmire and Representative Bill Sandifer, who spoke for about ten minutes each then fielded questions from the audience. Both Dari McBride, […]

The order that has been months in the making arrived today at the Anderson County Courthouse. The presiding circuit judge, Lawton McIntosh, has altered the sentence of Jessie Osborne, the confessed shooter in Townville. Osborne was responsible for incidents in which his father was killed at home and an elementary pupil was shot dead, with a teacher also wounded. Today, […]

A 25-year-old Fair Play woman remains in jail today, on a combined $110,000 surety bond, after her arrest yesterday on outstanding arrest warrants on charges of First-Degree Burglary and Malicious Injury to Property. Geena Elizabeth Elaine Ferguson, of N. Davis Drive, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 4:02pm Wednesday. Ferguson was taken into custody yesterday, on the […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — From Sept. 25-29, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) will observe its Fourth Annual PrEP Awareness Week. This statewide observance aims to increase awareness among providers and the community regarding pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a pill or injectable medicine that can help significantly decrease HIV infection if someone is exposed to the virus. In partnership with the South Carolina AIDS […]

Three businesses located at the Scenic Plaza Shopping Center have signed paperwork to be annexed into the town of West Union. Mayor Linda Oliver made the announcement Wednesday evening, identifying the three as Advance Auto, Holcomb’s Office Supply and McDonald’s. Mayor Oliver recently also announced the addition of Edwards Ford to the town limits.

On Thursday, the State “C” fund committee granted Oconee County $1.4 million, the money to be used for County Road work. The money was granted on a vote of three to nothing by all three members of the committee, which receives and distributes State Highway funds to local governments, the county & it’s 5 towns & cities. It’s believed that […]