Category: News

The Oconee County Chamber of Commerce has named Jillian Lusk as its new Executive Director, starting August 19, 2013.  An experienced Chamber executive from St. Petersburg, FL, Lusk is married to Brock Lusk, an Oconee County native and Major in the Air Force. Lusk was a member of the leadership team at the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce, where […]

Tri-County Technical College’s Corporate & Community Education Division will hold a Job Fair and Training Expo for Anderson, Oconee and Pickens county residents Tuesday, August 13.  It will be held 9am to noon at the Pendleton Campus in the Industrial & Business Development Center.  Participants will be given the opportunity to meet and interview with area employers and/or find out […]

The City of Seneca is now spotlighting local businesses making an impact in our community.  A new feature on the city’s website at www.seneca.sc.us shines the light on a business in the city, explains Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander.  “We want to recognize local businesses and let people know about where their business is and what they do.  Our goal is […]

Seats are still available for the Alive At 25 classes, which will be held September 7, October 5, November 2, or December 7 at the Hamilton Career Center. This survival course developed by the National Safety Council is designed to deal with inexperience and casual attitudes participants have about driving which can cause violations, collisions, injury or death. Trained law enforcement officers in […]

Clemson University President James F. Barker and 164 other university presidents and chancellors are calling on leaders in Washington, D.C. to increase investment in research and education and close the “innovation deficit.” In an open letter to President Barack Obama and Congress, the presidents and chancellors wrote that closing the widening gap between needed and actual investments in research and education, the […]

August 28, 2013 marks the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Probably best remembered for the keynote speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the “I Have a Dream” speech, this march was coordinated as a way of bringing national and international attention to the Civil Rights movement, and the economic issues of the day, and to […]

For a limited time the Oconee Humane Society is offering $6 vouchers for spay and neuter surgeries for cats if you live in the part of the 29678 zip code inside the boundaries of Highway 123 and Wells Highway.  You can come in for your voucher at the Oconee Humane Society, Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm.  The Oconee […]

This week at the Oconee County Law Enforcement Center, the Woodman of the World Lodge that meets in Oconee County donated to the fund that will go towards the purchase and operating cost of a Safe Harbor domestic violence shelter in Oconee County.  The $1,000 check was given by Woodman of the World members Wayne and Robbie Ann White to […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office made a recent arrest of a Westminster man on charges of obtaining goods under false pretenses and on shoplifting.  Deputies arrested 62-year-old Leamon Grant Phillips and charged him with three counts of obtaining property under false pretenses and one count of shoplifting.  Four Oconee County businesses were affected. Phillips was booked into the Oconee County […]

On the final day of this year’s Dixie Boys World Series at the Shaver Recreation Complex in Seneca, an Upstate native was inducted into the Dixie Boys Baseball National Hall of Fame.  The Board of Directors for Dixie Boys Baseball announced on Wednesday that Richard Kohn of Irmo was the newest member of the Dixie Boys Baseball National Hall of […]