Category: News

Out of considerations for COVID-19, there will be no community feed of authentic German food this year to help start Walhalla’s Oktoberfest.  It’s traditional that volunteers help dish out the food for lunch under the big tent, just hours before the official start of the Oktoberfest weekend.  But Barbara Justus, Oktoberfest president, says it won’t happen this year, and the […]

The following is a South Carolina DHEC announcement: “The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control’s (DHEC) most recent data analysis shows that the majority of recent COVID-19 cases, including severe cases, remain among individuals who are not fully vaccinated.   From Aug. 16 through Sept. 15, DHEC reported 149,738 cases among South Carolinians. Among the 1,771 reported cases […]

Mayor Danny Edwards has proclaimed this week Fire Prevention Week in Walhalla.  Fire prevention is a subject that the city fire department feels strongly about.  In 2019 alone, according to the National Fire Protection Association, more than 27-hundred people in the U-S were killed because of house fires.  Fire prevention, proper planning and working smoke detectors can help save lives.  […]

An examination of the way the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority handles money has produced the exact opinion which the agency’s outside auditor says it should have.  That, in the wording of certified public accountant Jason White is an unmodified opinion.  White’s firm conducted the examination of the millions of dollars in revenue and expenses associated with operating Oconee’s system […]

The Westminster police have confirmed a new arrest in the shooting death of a 20-year old woman last month in Westminster.  Previously, Charles Stephon Trapp Jr., was charged with murder in the death of Annalyssa Marie Biondolilo-Rodriguez.  Now a second woman, Maletha Carleta Crista Baker has been arrested on charges of obstructing justice and accessory after the fact to a […]

For the latest three days of counts available, the state health agency has recorded COVID-19 test positivity at below 10%.  On Thursday, it was 7.7%; on Friday, 7.7%; and on Saturday, 6.7%.  However, three days of deaths statewide amounted to 106, including three Oconeeans who were recorded on Friday as dead from the virus.

Oconee School District counts 80 cases of COVID-19 in the public schools over a period of seven days.  In total, there have been 903 cases since the schools opened in August—750 of them students.  Here are the monthly numbers so far:  for August, 508; September, 379; and in October so far, 16.  All 50 closures so far this year were […]

The new kidney transplant program at Greenville Memorial Hospital has received approval from the United Network for Organ Sharing to perform transplants.  Prisma Health Transplant Center expects to see its first patients early this month.  It promises leading-edge care to kidney-disease patients who previously had to travel more than 100 miles for transplant-related procedures.  According to the organ sharing network, […]

A spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office says there has been a verbal confirmation that a missing Salem woman has been located and is safe.  Over the weekend, Jennifer Nicole McLane was the subject of a missing person’s report, after having not been seen for a week. Master Deputy Jimmy Watt says to remove McLane as missing from the database […]

A man on a solo fishing hike to the Wild and Scenic Chattooga River remains unaccounted for this morning, according to Allen White, chief of the Mountain Rest Volunteer Fire Department.  White says the search for him resumes this morning.  His SUV has been found, but no sign of him and, according to White, his family is concerned.