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The Oconee County Council will meet at 6:00 pm tonight in Council Chambers, Oconee County Administrative Offices at 415 South Pine Street in Walhalla. On the agenda, among several items, including an executive session, is the first and final reading of a resolution declaring Oconee County a sanctuary for life, which urges the county’s residents to “promote and defend the […]

Not long after 5:30 am this morning, a single wide mobile home fire was reported on East Powell Street near Owens Road in the Utica community near Seneca. Fire Chief Richie Caudill said that no one was hurt, and he believes the fire was started by a homeless person trying to keep warm, but that it got out of hand…

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Oconee County man over the weekend on a Fugitive from Justice Warrant. 21 year old Carlos M Caron, who has listed addresses in Westminster and Seneca, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 4:33pm Saturday. A hold has been placed on Caron by the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky, which […]

The death toll continues to climb in Oconee County and South Carolina due to COVID-19. Yesterday, DHEC reported 210 new confirmed deaths across the state, seven of those were elderly Oconee County residents. On Monday there were 2,130 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in South Carolina, 42 in Oconee. The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is confirming there are […]

Governor Henry McMaster and leaders from Prisma Health gathered in Columbia to celebrate the 100,000 COVID-19 vaccination administered in South Carolina. Governor McMaster praised Prisma Health for working to administer the vaccine to South Carolinians and called on pharmacies to follow example being set by hospital systems across the state… Prisma health has opened three high vaccination sites in the […]

Ryan Thomas, a Hamilton Career & Technology Center DECA member and a junior at Seneca High School, received 5th place out of 618 teams in the Southern region and 22nd in the country out of over 4700 teams during the 2020-2021 DECA Stock Market Game, an online competition hosted by DECA Inc. and administered by the SIFMA Foundation. DECA members […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is announcing a ninth arrest in a burglary investigation at the old Dunlop plant in Westminster. 49 year old Tedmund Leon Smith of Mt. Pleasant Road in Westminster was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 1:45 pm Thursday. Belcher has been charged in outstanding arrest warrants obtained by investigators with four counts each […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested four subjects on charges related to two separate investigations, one involving a Grand Larceny and the other involving a runaway teenager.   The subjects arrested and their charges are as follows: 19 year old Luigi Bozzi Carr of Westminster: one count each of Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and Accessory after the Fact […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced today the detection of one case associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant that first emerged in the United Kingdom. Viruses are constantly changing, and the new versions are called variants. Variants are closely monitored for their ability to spread faster or cause more disease. South Carolina public […]