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To help holiday travelers, the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) prohibits lane closures on interstate highways for non-emergency highway work during the Memorial Day Weekend holiday travel period. These restrictions will be in place from 6 a.m. Friday, May 28, until 6 a.m. Tuesday, June 1. With continued progress due to SCDOT’s Strategic 10-Year Plan to rebuild South Carolina’s […]

Agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are investigating an incident from Monday afternoon in which shots were exchanged between an armed man and officers from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were attempting to conduct a welfare check as a result of an earlier domestic dispute in n Easley when an armed subject approached deputies and gunfire was […]

Hospital system rolls out giving vaccination in select physician offices GREENVILLE, S.C.—Due to additional COVID-19 vaccination sites in the community and physician offices, as well as reduced demand from the public, Prisma Health is making changes to its vaccination sites. Prisma Health has administered almost 400,000 vaccinations and is committed to continuing to get shots in arms to help build […]

SCDOT is accepting public comments now through June 16 on the recommended ranked pavement improvement project lists for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Primary route system, Farm-to-Market Secondary system, and Neighborhood streets for the state fiscal year 2021-2022. The projects included on the 2021-22 Pavement Improvement Program list will account for 997 new miles of proposed paving work. The […]

Courtney Mitchell, director of marketing for Eye Health America and Clemson Eye, said that they are building a new facility on Union Station Drive off Hwy 123 in Oconee County and relocating their Tiger Boulevard office… Groundbreaking is expected to be within the next 30-45 days. Total construction should take about a year, Mitchell said.

The Tiger Boulevard McDonald’s Restaurant is getting a makeover from the ground up. The old building was demolished in mid-May and is currently being rebuilt with plans to reopen in August. Restaurant owner James Partridge, also a Clemson resident, said it was time to update the facility, after years of serving the greater Clemson area from the original structure. The […]

A portion of Keowee River Road, which connects between SC 130 and 183 in the vicinity of the Oconee Nuclear Station, has been closed temporarily to allow the contractor, King Asphalt Company, to re-pave the road and make other improvements. Motorists should rely on an alternate route through the traffic light intersection of the two highways, not far from the […]

An investigation into a reported sexual assault in May of this year has led to the arrest of a West Union man on a charge of Criminal Sexual Conduct with a Minor – 2nd Degree. 21 year old Joe Douglas Eugene Rogers, of Doc Sanders Road, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 3:21pm Thursday. Rogers was released […]

On Wednesday, June 2nd the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority’s outside attorney and consultant have a meeting set to explain to its members a DHEC consent order addressing the overflows and other deficiencies within the sewer system, according to OJRSA Board Chair Scott Moulder… Meeting the regulatory requirements of the EPA, which is predicted to take a number of years […]