National Health Survey is coming to Pickens County

    Why Should Every Eligible Resident Participate in NHANES?   Participants receive a free and comprehensive health and nutrition evaluation. Participants help develop and evolve national health programs and policies. Participants receive a token of appreciation for their time.   All information collected is confidential, as required by law.           The National Health and Nutrition […]

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New impetus for a new Walhalla police station?

Joe Borgstrom normally does not attempt to influence those from whom he seeks opinions about what to do about a specific property, but he made some extemporaneous comments this week that revealed what he thinks about the city-owned building which houses the Walhalla Police Department at the corner of Main and N. College streets.  The real estate re-development specialist doesn’t […]

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Ian, a time to lay aside divisive politics

    Considering the potential for a divisive presidential election in two years, Joe Biden and Ron DeSantis seem an odd pairing this week.  But the U-S president and the Florida governor, at loggerheads on many issues, were in accord this week with the need for the federal government to help Florida recover from Hurricane Ian.  The Associated Press has […]

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Linda Broome

Fair Play – Linda Broome, 72, wife of James “Jimmy” Welborn Broome, passed away on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at Cottingham Hospice House.   Born in Seneca, South Carolina, Linda was retired from Rosa Clark where she was a receptionist.    Linda is survived by her daughters, April Mathis (Brian), Angel Morehead (Cam); and grandchildren, Jonah Mathis (Dori Kimbrell) and […]

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Two Clemson players sued civilly

Published reports this morning show two Clemson football players—defensive backs Malcolm Greene and Fred Davis II—are the defendants in a civil lawsuit filed yesterday in the Pickens County Common Pleas Court.  The plaintiff is identified as U-S postal worker Karen Alvarez, injured when her mail truck was allegedly hit by Davis’s car on U-S 123, just to the Greenville side […]

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“Every corner you turn” — a visitor’s compliment to Walhalla

Because Walhallans see the place every day, it’s only natural to overlook the good for the not so good.  A pair of Walhalla visitors last evening was effusive in their praise for the Oconee municipality which resulted from the settlement established by a group of German settlers mid-19th century.   Jenny Boulware of Main Street South Carolina said, “Every corner you […]

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Jeanne G. Geiman

Mountain Rest, SC — Jeanne G. Geiman, 71, wife of the late Sydnor Fairfax Geiman, of Mountain Rest, passed away on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at Cottingham Hospice House.   Born in Philadelphia, PA, Mrs. Geiman was the daughter of the late Stephen and Bette Roswell Gavula. She worked as a Chief of Office for Senator Poddles for the State […]

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