Category: News

In the next couple of weeks, you will be hearing a lot about the Greater Oconee County Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming membership directory. In years past, the Chamber has had an online directory for all of our members to be listed with contact information. At this time, the Chamber feels there is great value in having a physical publication that […]

A late freeze has claimed part of the Upstate peach crop, but strawberries have dodged the bullet and may provide a much-needed infusion of cash for fruit farmers.  The Clemson University Media Relations Department reports that peach farmers in parts of the Upstate lost much their crop to a mid-April freeze. “We have some small peach growers that are 100% […]

Clemson University and Adobe will work together to enable campus-wide access to Adobe’s world-class Creative Cloud tools for all Clemson faculty, staff and students, effective immediately. In addition to the Creative Cloud software, Adobe will invest in an innovative, state-of-the-art Adobe Digital Studio to be housed in Clemson’s R.M. Cooper Library. The studio will serve as a teaching, training and collaboration environment to support […]

A new analysis from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists International shows commercial building is out-pacing residential construction. CareerBuilder’s Jennifer Grasz gives details. “When you look at industrial building construction jobs, those are the factory, mining, power plant construction jobs; those are all projected to grow 6% from 2011 to 2014.” Residential building ranks a close second. Grasz believes companies and […]

Looking for a part-time job?  Well, the Greater Oconee County Chamber of Commerce is seeking an individual good at working with the public for a position, explains executive director Jillian Lusk.  “We are looking for one part-time person for 20-25 hours a week to help out in our information center and to just help out with some of our communications […]

The Greater Walhalla Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual membership and awards banquet on April 24 with members of the Chamber, City Council and Walhalla Partners for Progress in attendance to hear Katherine Hendricks, City Administrator of Pickens, speak on revitalization, business development, and the SC Main Street program.  Banquet attendees had the opportunity to hear first-hand how the […]

Visitors to Oconee State Park will notice a new addition to the 76-mile Foothills Trail.  Hikers are invited to celebrate the upgrades during a ceremony this month at the end of the trail. Heyward Douglass of the Foothills Trail Conference says there is new paved parking, along with some kiosks whose maps help guide hikers. The ceremony takes place at […]

South Carolina residents still have time to register to vote in the upcoming June 10 primaries.  In May, state and local voter registration and elections officials will be drawing attention to the effort to increase registration and to educate voters on candidates. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has declared May as Voter Education Month. South Carolina started online voter registration […]

Governor Nikki Haley signed Emma’s Law, a bill aimed at preventing more drunken driving deaths in South Carolina, on Wednesday.  The bill is named after 6-year-old Emma Longstreet, who died on New Year’s Day 2012 when a repeat-offender drunken driver struck her family’s minivan while they were on their way to church. The Longstreet family has been advocating and working […]

A Seneca man stands charged with abuse of a wildlife management area, failure to stop for blue lights and child endangerment, after officers observed him doing doughnuts on DNR land before crashing his vehicle when fleeing from officers.  On Tuesday, warrants were served on 43-year-old Tracy Fowler.  The SC Department of Natural Resources reports that on April 18 a DNR […]