Harsh cold this weekend

Frank Strait, weather prognosticator with South Carolina DNR, says a storm crossing the Intermountain West will pass through this part of the country tomorrow night into Friday morning.  But for nearly all of South Carolina, he says, it will be too warm for anything other than rain to fall.  There’s a chance for the part of the Upstate well northwest […]

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Motorcyclist killed at Clemson

A 20-year-old motorcyclist from Summerville, Jacob Walter Noack, died in an accident yesterday afternoon at Clemson, on the Old Greenville Highway at the Anderson Highway.  The Pickens Coroner’s Office states Noack’s motorcycle was involved in a collision with a second vehicle.  He was wearing a helmet.  The investigation by the coroner’s office and the Clemson campus police is continuing.  An […]

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Quashing the thought of crossover voting

South Carolina will be the setting next month for separate Saturday preference votes on who should be the nominees this year to run for president.  Tempting as it might be for a voter of one political persuasion, crossover voting won’t be allowed.  In other words, as explained by Kristi Burr of Oconee Elections, voters must declare their party vote — […]

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Bank donation for the YMCA’s expansion

Blue Ridge Bank announces a $50 thousand gift to the Foothills Area YMCA for the start of its Phase II expansion.  Kyle Thomas, bank president/CEO, said, “Our bank initially contributed $50 thousand as a lead gift for the YMCA’s initial construction.  Inspired by the positive impact the Y has had on our community, we are pleased to offer an additional […]

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Two Northeast Georgia counties land in redrawn district

In late December, a federal judge accepted newly-redrawn Georgia congressional and legislative voting districts, saying the creation of new majority Black voting districts around metro Atlanta solved the illegal minority vote dilution that led him to order maps to be redrawn.  That news may have gone unnoticed in Northeast Georgia, but Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR reports many in Northeast Georgia […]

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South Carolina reviews 2023 weather year

In a statewide hookup, South Carolina weather watchers reviewed the year just past.  Hope Mizzell, the state climatologist, led a panel of experts in talking about the 2023 U-S weather as a whole and South Carolina weather in particular.  And her assistant, Melissa Griffin, noted that while there was a lack of snow last winter, there was no shortage of […]

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Audits help ensure votes cast and tabulated are accurate

Top election officials of Oconee and Pickens concede that, in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential vote, there remains public skepticism in the accuracy of the country’s elections, but they are confident that local elections are accurate, secure, and accessible.  Accurate, secure and accessible elections were in focus last night in a Clemson meeting where the League of Women Voters […]

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Murder defendant makes court appearance

The case that alleges a young man killed a woman in Walhalla last summer remains in the pre-trial stage, although a judge yesterday ordered the city police to produce evidence, so that the defense can prepare its case.  In jail attire, the accused, Gilbert Nava, stood before the court and was silent as Judge Maddox ordered the investigation to comply […]

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