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Walhalla fire fighters joined West Union volunteers late yesterday afternoon at the scene of a car fire on the Dickard Road near the Poplar Springs Road. No one hurt, the fire created heavy damage to the small car.
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From Walhalla’s Hickory Hollow Farm to the National Weather Service at Greer, the report will be made that in August, a total of 5.52″ rain fell in Walhalla. Oconee’s official U-S weather watcher, Barbara Wilson, concedes that the 5.52″ total pales to other parts of the county, including Lynn Towe’s home at Salem. There, the rain gauge got heavy during […]
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Brothers Michael and Sandy Andron are names from an Oconee past who were associated with the formation of a county community theatre in the 1970s. Staged plays originated from Kenneth Richardson’s picture show movie house on Seneca’s N. 1st Street. A guess is that the Androns would approve if they knew today that Oconee Community Theatre is adding a comedy […]
Read moreThurmond Coward of Salem feels the pain of Kentucky residents forced to rebuild their lives after flooding. And Coward, a former Salem mayor, says what’s happened to Jackson, Mississippi is a lesson for public water systems to strive to update and replace necessary infrastructure by spending monies that normally would have been spent on items unnecessary for public health.
Read moreThe newest report pegs the increase of all drug over-doses across South Carolina at 53%–from 1,131 to 1,734 according to the numbers analyzed for the latest period, from 2019 to 2020. “There is no question”, says the man in charge of DHEC, “that substance use disorders represent a public health crisis in South Carolina.” A table of drug deaths county […]
Read moreLake Hartwell and the two other reservoirs run by the Army Corps of Engineers declared the first drought level last Sunday — responding to the pool elevation dipping below 326 feet above mean sea level. Entering Trigger Level 1 activates the Corps’ drought plan which conserves water by reducing the outflows from the Thurmond Dam, north of Augusta, Georgia. Water […]
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Someone’s past can never be changed but someone’s future can be. All it takes is faith and someone to believe in you while believing in yourself. For Oconee County Sheriff’s Office employee Jeremy Laboone, who was born in Orangeburg and raised in Greenville, 10 years of his life (2004 – 2014) was spent in service to his country in […]
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After a ruling by 10th Circuit Judge McIntosh, an officer of Oconee General Sessions Court said the state’s case against Nathan McCall will continue. McCall, a resident of Salem area, faces the charge of attempted murder in the wounding of a visitor to his home, as the two men fought each other in a bedroom and then went outside where […]
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A hearing underway at Oconee Courthouse is deciding whether a man near Salem had the right to “stand his ground” when a visitor to his home, according to what the judge was told, arrived un-invited and got into a fight that left a homeowner with a gunshot wound to the head. Attorneys for Nathan McCall are making the case before […]
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Not only does the heart of Salem resident Thurmond Coward go out to the flood victims in rural Kentucky, but to those impacted by the Jackson, Mississippi disaster. Coward today reported to 101.7/WGOG NEWS the conditions faced by the fewer than 1,000 residents of Hindman, Kentucky, county seat of Knott County which Coward has visited with a truck load of […]
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