Category: News

A Spartanburg teenager died Friday night, April 3, in the emergency department of Greenville Memorial Hospital from complications of apparent drowning approximately fours after the initial incident. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis reports that 17-year-old Treven Tolliver of Greer was pronounced dead at 9:17pm. Around 5:22pm on Friday, the Oconee County 911 Communications Center received a call for assistance at […]

The first Academic All-American in any sport in Clemson athletics history has died. Suffering from a lung disease, 80-year-old Charlie Bussey died early Thursday morning at his home in Clemson. He quarterbacked Clemson’s first ACC Championship football team in 1956. Bussey was named an Academic All-American off the field and was an honorable mention All-American on the field as a […]

The South Carolina Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sales will be from 2-6pm on April 10, for Friends of the Garden and 9am on April 11 and May 2, for the public. Friends of the Garden memberships will be available at the gate for non-members who want to shop April 10. All sales will be held in the nursery section of […]

A NFL star returns home to Central next week to support a local youth football team. Houston Texans’ wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins announces that he will sponsor this year’s 12U Central Hurricanes. The team belongs to the Tri-County Football League and begins its season on April 15. As a boy, Hopkins played on the same fields as the Central Hurricanes […]

On Thursday, canned food items collected during a recent drive by the Local Emergency Planning Commission in Oconee County were donated to the Salvation Army on South John Street in Walhalla. Representatives of the Local Emergency Planning Commission, which is a partnership of business, governmental, and public safety agencies, delivered around 200 cans. The Commission meets to help better plan […]

A company is bringing over 140 new jobs to Anderson. Cross Country Home Services announces expansion plans. The company will hire new employees for every department including customer service, authorizations, internal retention sales, and supervisors. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Cross Country Home Services provides home warranty products and maintenance plans for consumers.

Some confusion has arisen after the South Carolina Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would allow school districts to use as many as three snow days this academic year without making them up. Despite that decision, the School District of Oconee County must still make up one of those three built in snow days, explains Oconee County Schools Superintendent Dr. […]

Seneca Police announce that a car they stopped this week in search of an auto break-in suspect started as a case of driving under suspension. Then it escalated. Seneca Police report that in the vehicle driven by 38-year-old Orin Kemp, they found incriminating evidence. That evidence included identification documents belonging to others and tools that the police believe were used […]

The field is set for the very first Miss Oconee Belle Pageant. The Walhalla Area Chamber of Commerce sponsors the event on April 11 at the Walhalla Civic Auditorium. The doors will open at 4:30pm with a 5pm start. Tickets are $5 and available at the door. This pageant was created as an opportunity for ninth to twelfth grade girls, […]

On Saturday, April 25, Pendleton District Commission will sponsor “Kids Day at the Ag on Ecology, Climate and Environment. The following day, Sunday, April 26, the program Story Time and More, Ecology and Our Environment will also be offered. The events are being held at the Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum of South Carolina, which is located in Pendleton, off Highway […]