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Officials with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources urge extra caution while enjoying the state’s waters. Officials say the increased rain has caused water levels to rise sharply, and the high levels may conceal objects which can create dangerous currents.  They further caution a number of boat landings are flooded and not suitable to launch a boat or other […]

The real estate office of Lorraine Harding has joined the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail.  Called “Holiday Splendor”, the original quilt design was made by Mary Lynn Konyu of Washington State.  Her husband used his engineering skills to design the pattern and then it was published in 1996 in “Quilted for Christmas.”  June Kuter of Keowee Key made the original cloth […]

The Seneca Police Department is asking for the community’s help in identifying and locating the person and vehicle responsible for a hit-and-run property damage at Cross Creek Plantation. A rear access gate to the golf course community accessible from Return Church Road at Chris Lane was damaged sometime between 5pm Thursday, July 4 and 8am Friday, July 5. Investigating officers […]

Oconee County Deputies are on the hunt for two burglars.  Investigators say Joshua Estes and his brother James Estes drove up to a home on Shallowford Road in Salem to rob it.  Before the two burglars could leave deputies say the homeowner pulled up, and in an effort to stop the burglars deputies say the homeowner confronted the brothers as they were loading […]

Thanks are going out to all those men and women who participated in the search and recovery for a rafter on the Chattooga River.  Michelle Burnett, Public Affairs Officer for the US Forest Service said, “On behalf of the Incident Command Team involved in the recovery of Thomas Hill on the Chattooga River, I would like thank you for your […]

Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis has confirmed the identity of a body discovered Friday morning in the Chattooga River as that of 50-year-old Thomas Hill of Tampa, Florida.  His body was located near where the river flows into Lake Tugaloo.   Addis said, “The discovery was made by Oconee County emergency services workers boating on Lake Tugaloo toward the Chattooga […]

At approximately 11:30am Friday, an Oconee County recovery crew successfully retrieved the body of Thomas Hill who fell from a raft on June 19.  U.S. Forest Service Public Information Officer Michelle Burnett  gives details, “We believe that high flows on the Chattooga Wild and Scenic river freed Mr. Hill’s body so that he could begin his journey home to his […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s in finding two individuals wanted on multiple charges in regards to a burglary at a home near Salem.  According to investigators, a deputy responded to a report of a burglary in progress with shots fired at 201 Shallow Ford Road in Salem just before 11pm on Wednesday evening, July 3rd.  The […]

One challenge in rural communities, such as Oconee County, is dental health issues.  Mountain Lakes Access Health, a non-profit, comprehensive health program in Oconee and Pickens counties is currently in the process of establishing a dental clinic in the area to serve the needs of low-income and uninsured individuals.  Mountain Lakes Access Health executive director Cortni Nations gives details.  “The […]

Oconee County, like many rural counties in the United States has a pet overpopulation problem.  To lower the number of homeless pets, the Oconee Humane Society is using its website to match new owners to these pets, explains Oconee Humane Society board president Randy Vansterdamn. “It is all there and we are working on it continuously to try to update […]