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A young woman burglarized a West Union business and used a metal pipe to inflict major property damage, according to the owners of Top Shelf Storage. Crystal Clevenger admitted her deed yesterday afternoon in the General Sessions courtroom, but she said she could not explain why she did it, when asked by the judge. “I have no answer for that, […]
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Walhalla City Council learned last night that the county’s second largest municipality has entered a development slowdown. The city utilities’ director, Scott Parris, attributes this to “money getting tighter” as the Federal Reserve will announce today whether it will issue another interest rate increase to try to tame inflation. Parris told the mayor and council that a current lack of […]
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A woman once recognized as an emerging leader in Anderson will join Walhalla city government. Brandon Burton, Walhalla city administrator, last night announced Celia Boyd Myers as his city’s new community development manager. In 2018, Myers was named an emerging leader by the Anderson Independent in a 20 Under 40 event.
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243. That was the number of registrants by Monday for Walhalla Recreation Department basketball teams. They are signing up for girls 14 and under basketball, as well as 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 year old boys’ teams. John Galbreath, recreation director, says many parents this year are opting for online registration, in place of in-person registration at the department […]
Read moreThe Columbia State has posted a profile of the Razorbacks’ 7-year head football coach, Padgett Johnson. The State paper reporter seems to have marveled at how Johnson has revived the Walhalla program. The headline for the story is telling: “The only high school football coach who works for free wouldn’t have it any other way.”
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Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in a counterfeit money investigation. The Sheriff’s Office is also seeking the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in relation to the investigation. A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to the Dollar General, on Wells Highway near Seneca, on October 26th in regard to […]
Read moreBetty Jean Walker Gray, age 88, passed away on October 29th, 2022 at Lila Doyle Skilled Nursing Center in Seneca, SC, with family by her side. Betty was born in Atlanta, GA on February 20, 1934, the daughter of Rogers Raymond Walker and Mary Gladys Kemp Walker. She lived in Atlanta until 1942 when her family moved […]
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An Oconee jury today found Damian Bennett guilty of assault and battery second degree. The judge’s sentence spares Bennett from prison. A court officer reports Judge McIntosh handed down the following sentence: 18 months in prison, suspended to five years’ probation. Bennett, who defended himself without an attorney, went on trial yesterday accused of assault and battery in a West […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Easley man on multiple charges last Friday, including a charge of First Degree Burglary. 41 year old Marshall Adam Race, of Fledging Way, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on October 28th around 11:22am. Race was transported from the Pickens County Detention Center to the Oconee County Detention Center and […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA), Lexington Medical Center (LMC), McLeod Health, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and Prisma Health are teaming up to caution residents to take actions now to reduce impacts of respiratory illnesses on our state’s families and hospitals. Such illnesses include respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), influenza […]
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