Category: News

Walhalla’s Durham Hall was the scene and Amanda Brock, the county administrator, the guest speaker when the Oconee Public Library paid tribute to its volunteers.  At that October 14 event, Nancy Churchwell received the Lucile Bellotte Moore Award and Cyndy Clausen, the Sarah Mills Norton Award.  Blair Hinson, library director, says the library system depends on volunteers, such as those […]

A public information meeting today will center on the prospects that a Georgia company will open a rock quarry near Lavonia.  Vulcan Materials is holding a meet and greet this afternoon with people living near the proposed location for the quarry, highway 59 near the Lavonia city limit.  The company spent $3.5 million for 225 acres there.  Lake Hartwell Radio […]

In a city hall meeting, it was not lost on Rosemary Bailes and other members of Walhalla Planning Commission that, if things pan out in the next couple of years, visitors to the city will get the chance to book a room one block off Main Street, take in a performance, and make a short walk to restaurants in the […]

A mid-afternoon mishap yesterday on SC 11 near the 123 interchange.  A pontoon boat dislodged from a trailer and flipped over.

COVID-19 Test percentage positivity during a three-day period last week ranged between 4.7% and 5.5%.  For each day Thursday-thru-Saturday–South Carolina DHEC counts–showed total daily cases below one thousand.  New confirmed deaths were six on Thursday; 22 Friday; and 42 Saturday, which included one Oconeean.

Amanda Brock, Oconee County administrator, acknowledges there are additional properties in the packet for today’s annual delinquent tax sale.  And, she says, COVID and the hard economic times are likely to be factors contributing to that.  It’s a well-attended sale—with potential bidders parking cars, trucks, and even a motorcycle in the parking lot of the Center for Performing Arts Center, […]

Walhalla’s Chicopee Field was the scene this weekend of an arrest made by the city police.  Multiple charges were placed against a West Union resident, Bryan Ashley Evans.  The police say one of the charges—assault police officer while arresting arrest—was made as a police officer attempted to serve the 42-year old Evans with a court bench warrant.

An Oconee County delinquent property tax sale is attracting hundreds of people, apparently out for a bargain, to today’s event in the Performing Center for the Arts.  The parking lot and adjoining streets are full of parked cars and trucks.

Families may find help paying back rent or satisfying past-due utility bills from a program through SC Housing.  The program is partnering with community organizations to help, especially now that the U-S Supreme Court has ended the moratorium on federal evictions.  SC Stay Plus begun in May is a rent and utility help program for renters financially impacted by COVID-19.  […]

The Seneca Transit Service invites riders and the public for a public hearing tomorrow afternoon to talk about bus routes.  The hearing takes place at 4 o’clock in the city council chambers, and a proposed route change is on display at the city hall during regular business hours.  If you are interested but can’t make tomorrow’s hearing, written comments may […]