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Historic churches and churchyards will be the focus of the April walking tours through historic downtown Pendleton. The tours are being offered Friday, April 10 and Saturday, April 11, beginning at 2pm. The tour will begin at Old Stone Church, located on Highway 76 between Clemson and Pendleton. Guests will then drive into Pendleton to visit St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. […]

On Saturday, applause greeted Oconee County Vietnam era veterans as they received an escort into the gymnasium of Seneca’s Gignilliat Community Center. Sister station WGOG reports that the event was the first of several during the next three years to call attention to a 10-year war that cost the United States nearly 60,000 of its service members. Part of the […]

The Oconee County Public Library will be closing its Westminster Branch for the week of April 6 through April 11, 2015, for reconstruction and paving of the library parking lot. Since much of this outdoor work depends on the weather, that schedule is subject to change. Additional notice will be sent out through the library’s website and social media outlets […]

Naquarius Watt pled guilty last week in Anderson General Sessions Court to two counts of armed robbery and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime. Tenth Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams reports that the Honorable Scott Sprouse sentenced Watt to 20 years on each count of armed robbery and five years on each weapons […]

The Truth Outreach invites the community to celebrate Easter with them this Sunday. The church located at 185 Cornerstone Drive in West Union holds Easter Services on April 5, 2015 followed by a free lunch and egg hunt. For more information, call 864-638-8092.

The Mercantile at 149 East Queen Street in Pendleton has joined the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail. The Mercantile is a family business housed in a historic building in downtown Pendleton. Connie Earl opened The Mercantile in 1988. The Mercantile was her dream. She and her husband were in the area while he was on sabbatical and she fell in love […]

The Oconee County Public Library continues its monthly Science Saturday events in April with a Star Wars theme. Youth Services Librarian Stacie Powell says the library is thrilled to offer the youth of Oconee County the opportunity to experience fun “STEAM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) related programs such as the monthly Science Saturdays. For April, students will be […]

In early January, over 2,000 band students from Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, and Spartanburg traveled to Greer High School to audition for the Region One Honor Band. Students had to perform for numerous judges, demonstrating proficiency on their instrument by playing scales from memory and a solo as well as demonstrating their sight-reading abilities and their knowledge of music vocabulary. The […]

The Walhalla police have decided there will be no criminal charges in the hazing incident on a bus carrying Razorback soccer players home from a game in Pickens. Chief Ronald Wilbanks said his department has accepted a recommendation from the 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office that, based on the statements gathered in the investigation, criminal charges are not appropriate. However, Wilbanks […]

Oconee County Administrator Scott Moulder foresees serious financial impact to the counties if an effort at the state capital succeeds to transfer the maintenance of some state-owned roads to the counties. Moulder yesterday was the lead-off panel speaker for an Oconee-Pickens Chambers of Commerce Coalition forum, devoted in part to what some state lawmakers see as a partial solution to […]