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Tuesday, incoming Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) reacted to the Democrats’ budget resolution on the Senate floor. On Congress and the Administration working together on COVID relief: GRAHAM: “Here’s what I want the American people to know. We’ve done a lot together [already]. And of the $4 trillion we’ve appropriated, to date we’ve spent $2.7 trillion.” https://youtu.be/TJ_HKUNzwIo?t=206 […]

A delay announced this week in the timetable to run sewer lines to I-85 in Southern Oconee County is not anticipated to jack up the multi-million dollar price of the project, according to OJRSA Executive Director Chris Eleazer… Officials of JRSA’s member cities heard the latest timetable calls for bid opening in August, with start of construction in September of […]

The US Forestry Service’s Andrew Pickens Ranger District is planning on burning approximately 706 acres today on the Presbyterian Lake and Rifle Range burn units. The burn is located between Rich Mountain Road (FS 744), Cedar Creek Road (FS 744C) and Cassidy Bridge Road. The Cedar Creek Rifle Range will also be closed for the day, officials said.

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Westminster woman and a Seneca man with multiple charges after a pursuit yesterday afternoon. 22 year old Amy Denise Fleming and 30 year old Artis O’Neal Wright have been charged with one count each of Failure to Stop for a Blue Light, Reckless Driving and Possession of Methamphetamine.  Wright has additionally been […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a wanted subject who has a total of 12 arrest warrants related to three separate incidents. 37 year old Jerrico Roshean Fruster of Central is wanted on one count of Second Degree Burglary, three counts of Malicious Injury to Real Property, one count of Assault and Battery […]

Find a location accepting vaccine appointments near you at scdhec.gov/vaxlocator COLUMBIA, S.C. –  Governor Henry McMaster and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced that beginning Monday, February 8, any South Carolina resident aged 65 or older, regardless of health status or preexisting conditions, can begin scheduling their appointment to receive COVID-19 vaccine.  DHEC’s online tool at scdhec.gov/vaxlocator shows locations currently […]

The oldest resident of South Carolina has received the COVID-19 vaccine. According to Prisma Health, Maria Aulenbacher, at 111-years-old, has become the oldest resident of SC to receive the vaccine. She received the COVID-19 vaccine along with her daughter and son-in-law, who are both in their 70s, last week. They were among the first 100,000 people to receive the vaccine […]

Oconee Humane Society and Oconee County Animal Shelter announced, for the first time in the long history of sheltering homeless pets, they achieved a monthly status of a no-kill shelter in January 2021. No-kill is defined by national animal organizations as not euthanizing adoptable animals for time and space (overcrowding), and reaching a 90 percent “save rate,” or having pets […]