Georgia I-85 lane closures to be suspended

For the benefit of Thanksgiving motorists, Georgia DOT will suspend I-85 lane closures starting at 5 o’clock tomorrow morning through 10 o’clock Sunday night.  This is considered especially good for drivers headed south on 85 where G-DOT crews are widening a 15-mile section.  Similar restrictions are to facilitate holiday traffic over Christmas and New Year’s.  Nevertheless, crews may still work […]

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Pickens County traffic fatality identified

A coroner has identified the fatality last week at a Pickens County intersection.  Deputy Pickens coroner Tommy Page said a resident of the Sunset Community, Steven Wickum, lost his life shortly before 8 o’clock Wednesday night, November 15.  Page’s account discloses that Wickum was an unrestrained driver whose vehicle left the roadway at E. Preston McDaniel Road and Hagood Mill […]

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A city hall deadline today

Some of us at this date have yet to figure out the place settings for Thanksgiving Day, yet if you are thinking about this year’s Walhalla Christmas parade, this is a deadline day.  If you wish to enter the December 2 parade and have yet to do so, you must submit your entry today online or in person at city […]

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Website offers updates on deputy’s condition

Updates on the condition of the wounded Oconee officer are being offered by the main website of CaringBridge and may be accessed at https://www.caringbridge.org.  The following statement is from Master Deputy Jimmy Watt, public information officer for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office:  “Due to a conversation with the family, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will not be providing any further updates […]

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Jim Mahan

  Fair Play – Jim Tracy Doyne Mahan, 83, husband of the late Anita Louise Cox Mahan, passed away on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at his residence.   Born in Bee Branch, Arkansas, Jim was the son of the late Laudis and Arlene Winningham Mahan.  Jim was a United States Army Veteran, a retired Lieutenant Fireman with the Fort Lauderdale […]

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Thanksgiving week food giveaway

A church mid-way between Seneca and Westminster gives away bags of Thanksgiving food items.  The Calvary Church distribution will be 5:30 to 7 pm tomorrow on a first come, first-served basis.  There’s be a variety of food items in as many as 200 bags, and the church, according to associate pastor Vic Blackwell, looks forward to meeting the recipients — […]

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Crenshaw feels the hand of God

People are talking in amazement today of what they heard Oconee Sheriff Crenshaw say during a vigil last night for deputy Lucas Watts, who has survived what’s termed a risky surgery and remains in stable but critical condition.  In an interview with 101.7/WGOG NEWS, Crenshaw recounted some of the events last week in which, at one point, it was thought […]

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God’s hand in Watts’ recovery

Grant Keehn, the Walhalla city councilman, called to order a utilities committee meeting this morning with a prayer that spoke of the hand that God is believed to have had in the struggle for the hospitalized deputy sheriff to stay alive, after being seriously wounded last week in a shooting while in performance of his duties.  Keehn spoke in admiringly […]

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