Category: News

Tri-County Technical College will host a conference to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education on July 29-30, 2013 from 8:30am – 4pm in the College’s Industrial and Business Development Center.  Thirty educators from Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens school districts, along with educators from Tri-County and Clemson University, will attend the STEM conference. At the conference, experts will discuss how to […]

A one-day class, Small Business Start Up, will be offered on August 1, at Tri-County Technical College’s Pendleton Campus.  The class will be held in the Industrial Business and Development Center from 5:30 – 8:30pm.  There is no charge for the class. The class is offered in partnership with Tri-County Technical College, Clemson’s Small Business Development Center, SCORE and area […]

Members of the Oconee County Council will be attending the South Carolina Association of Counties Annual Conference and events associated with the Conference, August 2-7, 2013 at the Marriott Beach and Golf Resort on Hilton Head Island.

In a settlement agreement, Duke Energy has agreed to a $119 million rate increase over two years, which is about half as much as the utility originally proposed. If approved, the increase for 540,000 households and businesses in South Carolina will take effect in mid-September. The utility reached a settlement agreement with the state’s utility watchdog agency, the S.C. Office […]

The South Carolina Department of Education reports that the state high school dropout rate declined for the fourth straight year. The department announces that 5,232 high school students dropped out in the 2011-2012 federal fiscal year. That is nearly 670 fewer students than a year earlier and 2,800 fewer than in 2007-08. Oconee County Schools Superintendent Dr. Mike Lucas gives the dropout figures for the […]

An Upstate woman will spend the next 11 years behind bars after pleading to child abuse charges.  Tenth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams announces that 38-year-old Renita Lee pled guilty in Anderson General Sessions Court. The Honorable Alex Macaulay sentenced her to seven years in prison. Lee will also be placed on the Child Abuse Registry.  On April 17, 2012, deputies […]

A man who made threats against campus has been released from jail after pleading guilty.  Clemson University Police announce that 33-year-old David Reed Graham pleaded guilty to breach of trust with fraudulent intent and received a five-year sentence, suspended to three years of probation with one year of intensive probation. Clemson University Police charged Graham because of the theft of more […]

The Department of Justice has favorably resolved three actions it filed in Arizona, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, to seize and condemn dietary supplements containing the unsafe food additive 1, 3-dimethylamylamine, commonly known as DMAA, an amphetamine-like stimulant that has been linked to at least 86 adverse health events.  According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and federal law, […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) introduced an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act to prohibit the federal government from bailing out municipalities like Detroit, which are facing bankruptcy. Several Members of Congress have suggested the federal government should step in an assist Detroit.  In addition, just last week President Obama’s former ‘car […]

A company plans to invest $1 million and create five new jobs in the City of Seneca.  COE Optics, LLC, a leading provider of optical research and development solutions, announced plans to establish its new research manufacturing operations in Oconee County. This decision represents a $1 million investment and is expected to generate five new highly-skilled research intensive jobs. “We […]