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A real estate firm returns to Seneca City Hall on Monday night next week, in hopes it can gain approval for planned development residential zoning for nearly 100 acres on the northwest side of Seneca near Lake Keowee. The Forestar Group’s application is to be considered by the city planning commission. The planning commissioners’ recommendation would then go to the […]
Read moreThe appearance of a small, business-type jet airplane yesterday at the Oconee Regional Airport near Clemson naturally attracted some speculation–considering the wing of the plane sported a University of Alabama logo. We’re not sure about the business of the Alabamans, 12 of them, carrying golf clubs, but the fact that it was Bama raised some speculation by Clemson fans on […]
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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel announced today that the Colleton County Grand Jury has indicted Richard Alexander Murdaugh for two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in the deaths of his wife Maggie and his son Paul. They […]
Read moreIn letters to Columbia, an Oconee County councilman complains that, in Oconee County, conservatives “are under attack.” One letter went to the new South Carolina House Speaker, Merrill Smith. District Five’s Glenn Hart makes reference to the state’s intentions to prosecute Hart’s suspended colleague, District Two’s Matthew Durham. Hart credits Durham with leading a conservative movement in Oconee—a county in […]
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Paul Cain, Seneca’s member of the Oconee County Council, will lead a discussion on agriculture preservation, according to next week’s council agenda.
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In its first July meeting next week, the Oconee County Council will have plenty to consider—especially when it comes to grant applications, particularly putting up local money to supplement what the feds are offering. The largest consideration is an estimated $7.2 million project to allow the Rogers Group of Greer to re-hab the runway pavement for the Oconee Regional Airport. […]
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Clemson will offer an opportunity this month to learn about a development project titled “Kadera”. The city council will hold a mid-day work session Monday, July 25 at city hall starting at the noon hour. Pacolet Milliken will provide an update and discussion on the Kadera Development.
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A zoning permit granted by Walhalla will be limited to a life of one year. Brandon Burton, city administrator, says the city council this week amended an ordinance to provide that going forward, any zoning permit granted by city hall will have a one-year time limit–meaning that if a project has not been completed in that time (or a business […]
Read moreTownville, SC — Doris Evelyn Smith Worley, 69, wife of Larry Dennis Worley, of Townville, SC, passed away Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at AnMed Health Hospital. A native of Walhalla, SC, Mrs. Worley was the daughter of the late Gentry P. and Ruby Gunn Smith. She worked in the textile industry and was of the Baptist faith. Doris was […]
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Higher than normal rainfall prompted the S.C. Drought Response Committee, meeting via conference call on July 13, to downgrade the drought status for 29 counties in South Carolina. Many of the counties were just upgraded on June 30. The Drought Response Committee tries to avoid going in and out of drought stages so quickly but decided conditions had improved enough […]
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