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In an effort to accommodate growing trends while at the same time protecting neighborhoods, the Clemson City Council has approved a new ordinance that governs gameday and event parking. This ordinance regulates the use of private property for those charging a fee for parking during Clemson University football home games and city-approved events. Currently, city-approved events include Clemson University’s spring […]
Read moreThe Pickens County Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help finding a man who went missing on July 13, 2016. Chris Tankersley was riding his 2016 Green Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle with a paper tag from Powersports of Greenville in Six Mile at the time he went missing. His last known contact was a text to his girlfriend at 7:50pm stating he […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca woman Friday on two warrants charging her with exposing her children in the manufacture of methamphetamine. Charged with two counts of unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine in the presence of a minor child is 20-year-old Brenna Michelle Graham. Based on a tip, deputies conducted a welfare check at the Knollcrest Drive residence. Deputies […]
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The July Business Forum of the Oconee Economic Alliance (OEA) will feature the premiere of the video in the Made In Oconee campaign. Along with the video, there will be a panel discussion about the process and the importance of exposing the students of Oconee County to a future in manufacturing. The Made In Oconee campaign is an effort to […]
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The Board of Trustees for the School District of Oconee County (SDOC) has adopted a new grading scale, explains Assistant Superintendent of Operations Steve Hanvey. “The state changed the grading scale, the Uniform Grading Policy, for high school credits and they went on a ten-point scale, which gets our state in-line with neighboring states. That helps level the playing field […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Drought Response Committee has declared most of the state in the initial stages of drought. However, on Friday the committee designated four Upstate counties, Abbeville, Anderson, Oconee, and Pickens, in moderate drought, which is the second level. The committee said three things account for the moderate drought designation, the rainfall deficit, the abnormally high temperatures and the […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested three individuals after responding to reports of a fight and shots fired in an area near Seneca. On Wednesday, 25-year-old Clarence Curtis Hendrix, Jr., 27-year-old Vontria Beatrice Walker and 29-year-old Undre Bias Randolph were booked into the Oconee County Detention Center. The E-911 Communications Center received a call for service around 2:32pm Wednesday from […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office third Citizens Police Academy is now less than two months away and applications are still being accepted for the program that gives citizens a chance to experience what a day in the life of a police officer is like. As of July 6, Sgt. Mike McGowan, who is the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office coordinator for […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man over the 4th of July weekend on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine. A deputy observed a vehicle facing the wrong direction of travel late Saturday night on Newry Road. As the deputy approached the vehicle, the deputy observed some suspicious movement inside the vehicle. The driver, 29-year-old Mark Evan Medlin of Westminster, […]
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The public alert notification sirens around the Oconee Nuclear Station in Seneca will be tested on Wednesday, July 13, at approximately 11:50am. The 65 sirens within 10 miles of the Oconee Nuclear Station will be tested for three-minutes to assure each siren works properly. This full-cycle siren test is performed once each quarter in cooperation with emergency officials in Oconee […]
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