Category: News

Snow and ice remains on many roads in the Golden Corner of South Carolina. Oconee County Emergency Management Director Chief Scott Krein encourages motorists to wait until this afternoon to travel. “We still have snow covered roads, especially on the secondary roads. The main roads we’ve been able to get plows on and they are relatively passable, but we are […]

Crews with Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative are working to restore power in six service areas, explains Terry Ballenger manager of communications for Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative. “In Oconee County we’ve got 31 members without power and we’ve got crews assigned to the three outages in all. We’ve got 68 people out in Greenville County and we’ve got crews assigned there. […]

Looking for a sled? Well, you may have to check somewhere outside Oconee County. It seems in anticipation of today’s snow, area stores sold out of sleds. Tri-Star Imports experienced a rush to buy sleds early this week and began answering phone calls by saying, “This is Tri-Star Imports on Wells Highway in Seneca, we are out of sleds, how […]

The Clemson University Athletic Department reports that the case holding Howard’s Rock was damaged early Wednesday morning. Fortunately, the iconic rock that football players rub before home games at Clemson Memorial Stadium was not damaged; only the case. Officials said that the damage was the result of vandalism. Howard’s Rock and its pedestal were removed Wednesday afternoon from the west […]

Clemson University’s main campus, Greenville and Anderson offices will open at noon Thursday, Feb. 26. Classes begin at 12:30pm.

A Six Mile antique dealer died after he was discovered unconscious in a burning building early Wednesday. Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the man as 51-year-old James Stewart Pitts. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Department reports that a motorist called 911 after seeing smoke coming from the building on North Main Street around 3am Wednesday. Upon arrival, firefighters discovered Pitts […]

Due to the snow and ice, all schools and offices in Oconee, Pickens and Anderson counties will be closed on Thursday, Feb. 26. Anderson University, Clemson University, Southern Wesleyan University and Tri-County Technical College will be closed on Thursday, Feb. 26, in accordance with inclement weather closure protocol followed by all state offices. Thursday’s talk by syndicated columnist George Will […]

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has declared a State of Emergency to mobilize additional state resources should they be needed in response to the impending hazardous weather. The Governor’s State of Emergency Executive Order directs all state agencies to coordinate emergency resources should local public safety efforts request assistance. Forecasters with the National Weather Service predict the possibility of three […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged two Seneca residents, including one already in custody, with escape charges after a scheme to try to free the detained person from jail. Deputies arrested 26-year-old Joshua Dewayne Burrell on Feb. 13 on two warrants as well as a fugitive from justice warrant for violating his probation in Georgia. In addition, a deputy […]

A body was found Wednesday morning in the area of the Popcorn Lookout in Rabun County. Sister station WGHC reports that Rabun County Chief Investigator Jack Tanksley said, “We had got a call earlier on a Be On the Lookout on a person of interest in a homicide in South Carolina, a little after 11am we received a call of […]