Category: News

Walhalla’s top weather numbers are in the records books for the month of October.  The autumnal month in the county seat saw a high temperature of 82 degrees on the first day of the month and low temperatures of 37 on both October 27 and 28.  Nearly six inches of rain fell in October.

A fire late yesterday morning in the Five Forks Community between Walhalla and Westminster displaced four people, and it’s a fire under investigation, according to the Walhalla Fire Department.  Walhalla fire fighters were among those responding to the mobile home fire on Brooksmore Road, Five Forks community.  They were alerted to the fire at 10:30 am.

Deputies in Anderson County late last week charged a 30-year old Greenville County man with murder in the death of a patient near Easley.  Sent to jail in Anderson County was Michael Garland of Travelers Rest on the charge of murder of 25-year old Easley resident Amber Nicole Morris.  Deputies went to an address on Elizbeth City Drive in Anderson […]

Unless there is violence or true threats of violence, Senator Lindsey Graham has joined other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee calling for the Justice Department to take a neutral stance when it comes to free speech at school board meetings.  Graham’s office last week released a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland in which the South Carolina senator […]

Large sections of the Walhalla water service territory are experiencing a loss of pressure.  And the city has issued a boil advisory for all customers inside the city limits as well as  customers on the following roads outside the city:  Snead, Fowler, Winstead, Zion and Coffee, as well as wherever customers are facing loss of water pressure.   Until further notice, […]

At an address near Seneca, on Brookwood Drive, Oconee deputies arrested a 28-year old man on multiple charges, including the charge of criminal sexual conduct with a minor first degree.  They had gone to the address in response to reports of domestic disturbance, and wound up filing multiple charges against Gregory Scott Clark Greynolds Jr., including the charge sex offender […]

The latest count of COVID-19 in South Carolina totaled 706 new, confirmed cases.  The count was effective at the end of the day on Wednesday this week.  The 706 number is the highest one-day virus case count in the state since the previous Wednesday when the number was 738, according to records kept by 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Of the 706 new […]

Chances are if you’ve been voting in South Carolina House District 2 (the one represented by Bill Sandifer of Seneca), you will continue to vote within that district, once re-districting is done using population numbers from the 2020 census.  Sandifer says he has been inside the map room and left with a clear expectation that there likely will be no […]

This year’s Christmas parade in Westminster will have a sweet-tooth component.  The parade will make its way on Main Street at 6:30 Friday night, December 3 under the theme of “Candyland Lane”.  That name was the choice of those who voted during last month’s Apple Festival.  The parade will set out from the Dollar Tree at 907 E. Main.  Parade […]

The honor of Oconee Municipal Public Safety Officer of the Year belongs to Tim Rice of the Walhalla Police Department.  So awarded was Capt. Rice for a number of accomplishments. Since joining the department in 2019, Rice helped update the record system, investigated and resolved numerous cases.  He’s considered an important part of the department leadership.