Category: News

Clemson University ranks seventh among national universities on an exclusive U.S. News & World Report list of the most efficient schools. The ranking represents schools that are able to produce the highest educational quality, as determined by their place in the 2014 Best Colleges rankings, but spend relatively less on educational programs to achieve that quality.  The publication ranks Clemson No. […]

Three faculty/staff members have been honored as Tri-County Technical College’s Educators of the Year and will be recognized at the South Carolina Technical Education Association (SCTEA) meeting in February.  Dr. Brian Swords, director of the Easley Campus and QuickJobs Training Centers, is the College’s outstanding administrator; Deborah Brock, instructor in Medical Laboratory Technology and faculty development liaison, is the outstanding […]

Twenty-one teams, representing students from Upstate elementary and middle schools, will compete in a regional qualifying event for FIRST LEGO League teams.  Around 200 students, ages 9 – 14, along with coaches and parents, are expected to attend the Sixth Annual Tri-County Technical College FLL Regional Tournament on January 25 from 9am to 3pm at the Marshall J. Parker Auditorium […]

All campuses of Tri-County Technical College; Anderson, Easley, Seneca and Pendleton, will be closed Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces six people were killed on state roadways from Friday, January 10, at 6pm until Sunday, January 12, at midnight. As of January 12, 25 people have died on South Carolina highways, compared to 24 highway deaths during the same time period in 2013. Oconee County reports three deaths in 2014 compared to […]

A special subcommittee is being formed to study whether the Hart County Water and Sewer Authority should allow the Pioneer Rural Water District in Oconee County to draw water from Lake Hartwell using its easement. Pioneer is planning to build a new water treatment plant and intake facility to serve its 8,000 customers, but they lack a permit from the […]

Clemson University police arrested a 19-year-old student on assault charges Saturday night. David Michael Sass of Hanahan was charged with resisting arrest while assaulting a police officer and assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, both of which are felonies; and misdemeanor assault and battery in the third degree and public disorderly conduct. Police were called to Lightsey Bridge apartments […]

A policy change being considered by the Oconee School Board of Trustees will enhance the safety of students with allergies who are at risk for anaphylactic shock. At last night’s work session Michael Thorsland, assistant superintendent for operations, introduced for consideration the idea of district schools stocking epinephrine dosage pens for use as required on students susceptible to the potentially-fatal […]

Bob Winchester may have covered it all last night as he stood in Walhalla and reported on the activities and financial condition of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority. As executive director of the county’s treatment plant, it fell to Winchester to conduct the JRSA’s annual meeting, for which leaders of the three member cities filled tables inside the Walhalla […]

In Hart County, the water and sewer authority board for that northeast Georgia county has tabled until next month a request from its South Carolina neighbor, the Pioneer Rural Water District, for assistance. Officials representing Pioneer, a retail water supplier for parts of Oconee and Anderson counties, went into last night’s meeting in Hartwell in hopes that the authority would […]