Category: News

If you plan to leave town this holiday season, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has some advice for you to protect your home from thieves while away, explains Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt.  “While away, be sure to have someone picking up your mail and or paper deliveries; along with placing your interior and exterior lights […]

Clemson City Police Chief Jimmy Dixon has issued an important notice regarding an overabundance of break-ins throughout the city.  The break-ins are occurring to homes as well as vehicles. The Police Department is working diligently to find the persons responsible for committing these acts.  The Clemson City Police Department is deploying additional patrol personnel from off-duty to work specifically in residential […]

Here is the Oconee County solid waste schedule for Christmas week. For Christmas Eve on Tuesday, manned convenience centers will operate 7am to 3pm. The landfill will run 7:15am until 1:30pm. Hours for the Oconee Transfer Station are 6am to 1:30pm. All solid waste facilities are closed Wednesday, Christmas Day, and Thursday, the day after Christmas. All solid waste facilities […]

Tri-County Technical College will be closed for the holidays beginning Tuesday, December 24, 2013, through Wednesday, January 1, 2014.  The College will reopen Thursday, January 2.  Important dates and deadlines for spring semester can be found on the Academic Calendar link at www.tctc.edu.

All branches of the Oconee County Public Library will close for a few days to celebrate the holidays, explains Oconee County Public Library publicity director Blair Hinson.  “All branches of the Oconee County Public Library will close at 6pm on Monday, December 23, and remain closed Tuesday through Thursday, December 24 through 26, for Christmas. All branches will also close […]

With the government in recess for the holidays, expect to see political figures out in full force campaigning for the November General Elections.  Clemson University Political Science Professor Dr. Joseph Stewart says this is critical campaigning time for politicians seeking office.  “It is a big political season because there will be crowds out, particularly the Christmas Parades and things of […]

Kids shopped at the Seneca Walmart this morning with some very special people in the community.  It was the annual Shop with a Hero day for 93 needy children of Oconee County.  Corporal Tim Rice with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is one of this year’s organizers and he said, “These children most likely would have little to no Christmas […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has filed new charges against three men arrested in the theft of lottery tickets.  The new charges are for a separate incident that occurred at Tamassee in Cheohee Valley. Deputies charged 18-year-old Jon Connor Wacaster, 19-year-old Devin Ian McCrackin, and 27-year-old Richard Lewis Rittmayer in the break-in and theft of around $7,000 in lottery tickets from […]

Clemson University police arrested an Alabama man on felony drug charges after finding him asleep in his running truck on the Avenue of Champions.  Campus police say 24-year-old Christopher Michael Cooper of Section, Alabama was charged with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within proximity of a school, resisting arrest and driving […]

For the second year in a row, South Carolina has claimed the top spot among U.S. states in a report gauging the global impact of foreign-direct investment. In the annual IBM-Plant Location International Global Location Trends report released this month, South Carolina ranked first in the nation for per-capita employment by foreign-owned firms investing last year. Presently, there are more […]