Category: News

Fire fighters from the Walhalla and Westminster areas fought separate house fires almost simultaneously during the midnight hour Saturday over the holiday weekend.  The first call came from a home fire on Walhalla’s East Wesley Street.  A nearby lightning strike is thought to be the culprit.  While there some of the fire fighters were re-assigned to the Westminster area to […]

Full- and part-time Tri-County Technical College students can receive a significant savings on tuition this fall — up to 81 percent — if they are enrolled in classes in a critical workforce field like engineering technology, health care and information technology. The South Carolina Workforce and Industry Needs Scholarship (SCWINS) is a statewide technical college scholarship program designed to address […]

Organizers of this month’s bluegrass music festival to benefit Southern Wesleyan University’s Jericho group home project are taking no chances with our fickle weather. The Jericho project will provide a new, learning environment that couple student mentors with special needs individuals. The Saturday, July 20 event originally planned outdoors at Southern Wesleyan at Central is being moved to an indoor […]

Westminster exploded fireworks, and Yousef Mefleh led the pledge of allegiance at Friday night’s July 4 week gathering at Owens Stadium behind the middle school.  Mefleh, city councilman and restaurateur, says he was honored that organizers chose him to lead the pledge which officially started the event.

Tragedy in Franklin County over the July 4th weekend when seven people were killed and others injured in a multi-vehicle crash on I-85 near Carnesville. According to Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas, it happened Saturday afternoon about 1:40p near exit 160. Investigators with the Hartwell Post of the Georgia State Patrol say a Ford SUV traveling north crossed the center […]

A nearby lightning strike is believed by the Walhalla Fire Department to have been the direct cause for a midnight hour home fire on E. Wesley Street. The police called the fire department and alerted the two occupants of the home to vacate. Those two people escaped without injury. Fire Chief Brandon Burton says two other people lived at the […]

A car this morning northbound on I-85 at Fair Play hit the guardrail and then scraped the side of a tractor-trailer truck.  Chief Larry Wilkerson of the Fair Play Volunteer Fire Department said the car driver was uninjured, but the two impacts demolished the automobile.  The accident occurred around 10:30 morning at the two mile marker.  Several hours before Fair […]

Charges have been filed by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office against a Salem man. Wednesday’s Oconee jail report lists three charges against Mark Monroe Crowe including the offense of abuse or neglect of adult resulting in death. The Sheriff’s Office this afternoon released a warrant that alleges the 47-year old Crowe “between 9-24-18 and 5-6-19, while in the capacity of primary […]

A paving technique new to South Carolina will be undertaken on a section of U-S 123 in Pickens County. The work on the four-lane highway will take place between Liberty and the 133/College Avenue traffic lights in Clemson. According to a spokesman for contractor King Asphalt, the new type of paving will apply only to the section between the pedestrian […]

A fire engine and crew from Oconee County are lending assistance in fighting a major out of county fire.  Charlie King, Oconee fire chief, says the Oconee resources were sent last evening for a 24-hour assignment at the plastic recycling plant fire in Cherokee County.  The Oconee assistance is part of the South Carolina Firefighter Mobilization Plan.