Category: News

An Oconeean looks forward to a one-week vacation getaway to Seabrook Isle, a private island just off the South Carolina coast.  And she promises that while basking in the sun, she’ll think about us landlubbers.  She and other South Carolina beachgoers this summer should be able to rely on government’s effort to monitor beach water for any kind of elevated […]

A Cross Creek golf tourney brought out more than 200 people and raised about $16 thousand dollars for the K-9 unit of the Seneca police.  The occasion also served as a tribute to the retiring K-9 Rogue.  She goes to the sidelines with the praise of Chief Casey Bowling.  He credits 10-year-old Rogue in sniffing out illegal drugs and helping […]

Two people were hurt last night in a rural Oconee County car accident.  The wreck around 9:30 last night involved two cars at SC 11 and the Country Junction Road.  According to a Walhalla Fire Department report, the injured were sent to hospitals — one of the patients went to a Greenville hospital.

The South Carolina DOT is making plans to replace a rural Pickens County bridge.  And the state agency invites public comment on the project for a new bridge on SC 8 over the Oolenoy River.  All comments received between now and May 17 will be reviewed and included in the project record.

The state police in Georgia have arrested a former school paraprofessional who worked at the Hart County High School.  Lake Hartwell Radio WLHR quotes the GBI as saying 27-year-old Bowersville, Georgia resident Keenan Anderson is charged with sexual assault by persons with supervisory or disciplinary authority and tampering with evidence — incidents alleged to have occurred while Anderson worked at […]

South Carolina’s Tim Scott decries conditions in the U-S in which many Americans struggle to afford rent and mortgage payments and homelessness rates are at record-high levels.  The state’s junior U-S senator addressed comments yesterday during a housing committee hearing in Washington with the acting secretary for Housing and Urban Development and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.  […]

The public’s help is requested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office to locate a 25-year-old Seneca woman, not seen by a family member since April 11.  Totianna Annabell Lee Holland is 5’4″, around 150 lbs., brown eyes, short black hair.  She has a birthmark, or a scar, on her left shoulder.  According to a relative, Totianna normally walks as her mode […]

To recognize April as “Child Abuse Prevention Month”, Oconee Sheriff’s Office is spearheading a donation drive for Fostering Faithfully.  The drive is being conducted by two victim advocates–deputies Katrina Carter and Sonia Royal.  They have a display table in the main lobby of the first floor of the sheriff’s office at 300 S. Church Street, Walhalla.  Fostering Faithfully is a […]

A meeting of the Oconee County Municipal Association is scheduled for 6 o’clock Monday evening at the Walhalla Depot.  The pre-meeting agenda calls for the selection of a chairperson, a vice chair, an “A-COG” representative, a secretary, and a member at-large.

A Clemson University student from Hendersonville, Tennessee, Elizabeth Caldwell, has been named a Truman scholar.  Named for the late President Harry Truman, the Truman scholarship is given to high-achieving college students who show commitment to public service and potential to continue that service beyond graduation.  She’ll receive up to $30 thousand for graduate study, leadership training, career counseling and other […]