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A graduate of The Citadel, Justin Pelfrey, completed basic training last month at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy and became the third such academy graduate since Mike Crenshaw took office January 1. During commencement exercises in Columbia, Deputy Sheriff Pelfrey was named winner of the Distinguished Graduate Award and Challenge Award. It means that he graduated at the top […]

Everyone is invited to take the opportunity tonight to meet a new ambassador for Oconee County’s natural attractions. The Westminster Area Historic Preservation Society hosts a meet and greet event for Charlotte Waters, who grew up in Westminster, and has recently gone to work as the sales manager for Oconee County’s Mountain Lakes Convention and Visitors Bureau. The event will […]

A responsibility of the South Carolina lieutenant governor is the health and well being of the state’s oldest citizens. From the lectern during last night’s Third Annual “Steak in Oconee”, Glenn McConnell drew a line that connects agriculture with the lives of senior citizens. “Though eating well is important to all of us no matter what our age, it is […]

A speaker during last night’s third annual farm to table dinner said the rest of the world can only sit back and admire the efficiency and the prowess of United States agriculture of which, Tom Dobbins says, South Carolina plays a great part. At times, farming may lack the glamour of other jobs and require hard work, but for Dobbins […]

At the close of last night’s “Steak in Oconee” dinner to celebrate Oconee agriculture, Stanley Gibson welcomed the crowd to this year’s South Carolina Foothills Heritage Fair. The old-fashioned fair starts a five-day run on highway 123 between Seneca and Westminster. Gibson, the fair president, says a canned drive and ticket sales tonight are to be donated to the Golden […]

An autopsy has confirmed suspicions that the death of an elderly Keowee Key man last weekend was drowning. Coroner Karl Addis says the death of Robert Bruce Graffis, 77, is classified an accidental drowning.

Influenza, or “the flu”—call it what you will—has officially arrived in South Carolina! “Our agency’s Bureau of Laboratories has confirmed five cases of flu in the Midlands area of the state,” said Linda Bell, M.D. and state epidemiologist. “This confirmation reinforces the need for vaccination and the good sense steps to prevent the spread of the flu virus.” Influenza is […]

All rooms were occupied this morning inside Tri-County Tech’s Quick Jobs building near Seneca. And the office receptionist was directing visitors to the services they require. It made for an ideal day to demonstrate a new way in which job services are being made available to the locally unemployed. Recent budget cuts and changes at the federal and state levels […]

Westminster leaders renew their effort tonight to update the city’s comprehensive plan. The 6 o’clock City Planning Commission meeting at the Depot is a follow-up to a meeting two and a half weeks ago when the commissioners met with Chip Bentley, the same South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments staff worker who wrote the city’s last plan in 1990. The […]

The annual farm-to-table event to celebrate Oconee County agriculture attracts the state’s lieutenant governor as one of its speakers. Glenn McConnell will be part of the dais this evening at the South Carolina Foothills Heritage Fair grounds on highway 123 between Seneca and Westminster. The event, featuring locally-grown food, begins at 5:30 and takes place on the eve of the […]