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As the COVID vaccine becomes more widely available in the coming months, Prisma Health wants to ensure people’s questions about the vaccine are answered. You can join Prisma for a 12-1pm live town hall discussion today with a panel of Prisma Health experts who will address common questions about the vaccine and also answer questions from the audience. The community […]
Read moreWalhalla – Kenneth “Ken” Duvane Wood, 64, passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2021, at Cottingham Hospice House. Ken was a native of Oconee County, and the son of the late Christopher C. and Ruby Lee Eades Wood. Mr. Wood was a free spirit and a great friend to many, that knew him as nickname “Pecker”. To know […]
Read moreWinfield, KS — Doris Nichols Smith, 76, of Winfield, Kansas, passed away Sunday evening, January 24, 2021 at her home. Born February 16, 1944 in Walhalla, South Carolina, she was the daughter of James Carter “JC” and Rubye G. (Carter) Nichols. She was raised and received her education in Walhalla, graduating from Walhalla High School in 1962. Doris […]
Read morePrisma Health announces that, starting today, it will resume accepting walk-ins for the vaccine, as long as its limited supply of doses last. The walk-ins are being allowed at multiple locations, including Prisma Health’s Oconee Memorial Hospital. Further details are explained by the Prisma Health co-chair of the system’s vaccine task force, Dr. Soccocio, and she can be heard during […]
Read morePrisma Health has partnered with the South Carolina Emergency Management Division, the South Carolina National Guard, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and the South Carolina Hospital Association to create Regional COVID-19 Recovery Units – essentially, shared recovery units to serve all the hospitals in that region during a surge. The initial units, based in Prisma […]
Read moreOconee County Council has begun the process to convert an emergency order to an ordinance that requires facial coverings in certain county offices and facilities. It is not an ordinance, as explained by the county attorney, that would apply to anyone in the county outside county offices or facilities—just at those places operated by county government. Nevertheless, the ordinance process […]
Read moreAdger B. Carroll, 84, of Florence, SC, husband of Faye Corbett Carroll, passed away on January 25, 2021 at McLeod Hospice House in Florence. Born in Oakway, SC on October 15, 1936, he was the son of the late John Henry Carroll and Genevieve Simpson Carroll. He was a graduate of Clemson University, and also received a PhD in […]
Read moreThe chairman of Oconee’s Joint Regional Sewer Authority has removed from the table, at least for the next few months, any notion that its member cities should pay more for wastewater treatment. Chairman Scott Moulder, the Seneca administrator, conceded that the idea of a 20% increase in the annual charge to his city and Walhalla and Westminster caught commissioners of […]
Read moreThe mayor and five of the city’s six councilmen agree priority one for the city is raising revenues. And they are not talking about property taxes or utility charges. At their annual strategy meeting, there was agreement to consider other methods to grow the city’s finances. Mayor Brian Ramey says they include incentivizing home development, expanding garbage pickup routes, […]
Read moreSouth Carolina’s U-S senators, and the rest of their colleagues, are now sworn to be judges next month on whether Donald Trump in the waning days of his term bears responsibility for the insurrection at the Capitol. South Carolina’s Tim Scott, in a pre-trial statement yesterday, said he’s unconvinced the Senate has the authority to try what now is a […]
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