While School District of Oconee County expulsions have been cut in half from a year ago — primarily due to a number of students choosing to attend school online via [email protected] — the virtual option has its own concerns.
A 53-year-old Elgin woman died of blunt force trauma in a car wreck in Oconee County on Wednesday afternoon, marking the county’s first traffic death of 2021.
As the U.S. House of Representatives moved forward on the historic second impeachment of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, three local members of Congress expressed their opposition to the move in various tones and reasoning.
Duke Energy is set to donate a total of $5,000 to three local nonprofit organizations after they were declared winners in the 2020 Virtual Festival of Trees display hosted by the World of Energy.
Oconee County agencies will benefit from a nearly $23,000 grant under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program Phase 38 of the Federal Emergency and Management Agency (FEMA).
The School District of Oconee County said Tuesday that three more COVID-19 cases had been reported across the district on Monday.
The Oconee Nuclear Station will test 65 sirens within 10 miles of the complex in Oconee and Pickens counties for three minutes, which will happen between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. today.
Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley said Tuesday night that a person whose body was found in a vehicle submerged in Lake Hartwell died of suicide.
