Category: News

Now is the time to start preparing to go back to school.  With only a month left before school starts back in Oconee County, Superintendent Dr. Mike Lucas is encouraging parents to begin preparing their kids now.  “They need to start now getting back into the routine.  One thing I would encourage parents to do and I did put on […]

It’s not a scientifically accurate poll but according to a report by Honest Tea, the producer of the nation’s top selling organic bottled tea, Americans seem to be fairly honest. The company set up free standing booths with a bunch of bottles and a cash box and a sign that said “honor system, $1 a bottle” in all 50 states. […]

South Carolina’s 14th annual Sales Tax Holiday weekend will begin at 12:01am on August 2, 2013.  It is a great time to purchase those back-to-school supplies, clothes, household items and computers.  The tax-free holiday concludes at midnight on August 4. You can find out more about the holiday and items exempt from taxes by visiting the School District of Oconee County’s website at […]

A college ranking website lists graduates of Clemson University as having the highest return on their college investments than those at other colleges and universities in South Carolina. AffordableCollegesOnline.org ranked the top colleges in South Carolina with low net costs in tuition and fees whose graduates have the highest lifetime earnings when compared to non-degree holders. Clemson graduates will earn $872,700 […]

Beekeepers will be swarming in the Upstate of South Carolina this month.  The Clemson University Media Relations Department announces that apiarists from across the Palmetto State will make a beeline to Clemson University this month for all the buzz in beekeeping. The South Carolina Beekeepers Association holds its summer beekeeping conference at the Hendrix Student Center July 25-27, offering training […]

The registration deadline for a youth deer hunt sponsored by the S.C. Department of Natural Resources and Clemson University’s Department of Forest Resources is Monday, Sept. 16. The Fant’s Grove Youth Deer Hunt is set for Saturday, Oct. 5 at Fant’s Grove Wildlife Management Area near Clemson. A public drawing for 15 slots on the deer hunt will be held […]

The ARTS Center of Clemson is hosting the unveiling celebration of an outdoor quilt block that is part of the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail.  The community is invited to join in the unveiling celebration that will be on August 13, from 6:30pm to 9pm.  The outdoor quilt square, inspired by a textile quilt square done by Anna Willis, shows an African village. It […]

GC Pageants presents “Let’s Rock,” a triple crown pageant event to be held at 7:30pm at Walhalla High School on Saturday, July 27th. The winners in each division will represent South Carolina’s Golden Corner in the Miss South Carolina USA and Miss South Carolina Teen USA pageant to be held in North Charleston in November 2013. During Saturday night’s competition, contestants will compete in interview, […]

An Upstate sex offender will spend the next 20 years behind bars.  Tenth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Chrissy Adams announces that Anthony Roy Clark pled guilty in Anderson General Sessions Court to two counts of assault and battery in the first degree and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Honorable Alex Macaulay sentenced him to 10 […]

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces three people being killed on state roadways from Friday, July 19, at 6pm until Sunday, July 21, at midnight. As of July 21, 380 people have died on South Carolina highways, compared to 476 highway deaths in this same time period in 2012. Oconee County lists one highway fatality in 2013 compared […]