Category: News

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 […]

An attorney in Anderson pleaded guilty to obstruction. Anne Tompkins, U-S Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced the plea of guilt from Charles Anderson, an Anderson, South Carolina attorney, came in front of U-S District Judge Michelle Childs in Greenville. The government announcement quotes government documents as saying the 44-year old Anderson pleaded guilty to making materially […]

The holidays forced a slow down in the work done by a committee in Seneca to figure out a future use for former school property. But now that the Christmas and New Year’s holidays have passed the work of the Kellett Project Committee resumes. A representative of that committee of neighborhood and city leaders says a new meeting has been […]

Governor Nikki Haley holds constituent meetings this week at the State House, and South Carolinians are invited to discuss any issue with the state’s chief executive. The meetings are held on a one-on-one basis and take place at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Appointments with the governor are offered first-come, first-served. To schedule an appointment, call 803/734-1999 between 9 and 9:30 […]

The government’s annual inspection of Oconee Nuclear’s emergency preparedness program has been completed, and a Nuclear Regulatory Commission letter closing out the inspection report has been sent to Scott Batson, site vice president at the nuclear plant. The NRC also announced in a letter to Duke’ Scott Batson that seven reactor operator and five senior reactor operator applicants passed both […]

During the investigation of a home burglary near West Union, law enforcement officers decided a cleanup of hazardous materials was required. They were called Saturday afternoon to the Alexander Road, near Old Station Road. Law enforcement reports show a 34-year old man, Bryan Ashley Evans of Chauga Valley Road, Westminster, was charged with escape, burglary, larceny, and three drug offenses, […]

A late night home burglary near Seneca has landed a 28-year old Oconeean in jail, charged with multiple offenses. Sheriff’s Office reports show Robert Scott Sosebee of Timberlake Drive, Seneca was charged with burglary first degree and assault and battery third degree at Tyson Circle near the W. Sizemore Road. The burglary occurred shortly before midnight Thursday night. Two occupants […]