After a postponement earlier this month because the meeting space wasn’t large enough for the crowd that showed up, Oconee County Republicans met on Saturday morning to elect precinct officers and delegates to the county party’s convention.
Oconee County administrator Amanda Brock said she plans to ask for council approval to spend up to $75,000 for a greenway project feasibility study this budget season.
Police said they confiscated a sawed-off shotgun and drugs after pulling a Seneca man over Sunday for making a turn without using a turn signal.
Since the middle of last year, Walhalla city officials have been trying to contact the owners of a property on Thompson Avenue.
The superintendents of the school districts of Oconee and Pickens counties recently voiced their approval for how the first round of COVID-19 vaccines were made available to all employees who wanted to participate.
With more than $15 million coming Oconee County’s way through a massive stimulus bill, there could be a push to parlay money into a county seat on the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority Board — something long sought after by county officials.
Nine Oconee County residents were charged in a drug roundup on Wednesday, with local law enforcement looking for another nine people with active warrants out for their arrest.
After a dozen years working in drug operations with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office narcotics unit, Jeremy Chapman is in a new role, working with the inmates he used to put behind bars.