Category: News

Walhalla water crews got little rest over the July 4 week.  Scott Parris, the utilities superintendent, says the city’s new treatment plant near West Union is piping water to some customers at a higher than normal pressure, and that’s become too much for lines in the Halfway Branch area.  At one point this week, customers on Albert’s Road and the […]

Even more than one year later, Seneca and surrounding area remain in a part re-build from the fierce winds wrought by an EF3 tornado.  Some sting from that April 2020 event has been soothed by an action of the state lawmakers in Columbia.  City Administrator Scott Moulder announced last night Seneca will receive $2.5 million dollars in an infrastructure grant […]

Thieves have stolen iron rangers that Walhalla uses to collect fees from the public for visiting the city’s Stumphouse Tunnel Park.  Brandon Burton, the city administrator, says the police are investigating the thefts that have cost the city $4 thousand.

A Walhalla councilman says city money that was thought to have been inappropriately spent was actually appropriately spent.  Keith Pace, chairman of the city budget and general government committees, made the announcement last night.  The money that Pace referred to was $250 thousand of the city’s share of its rebate of excess revenues held by the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  […]

Parental concern over the potential for concussions is being laid as the reason why there won’t be enough children to field an 8-and-under recreation department football team this year in Walhalla.  Recreation Director John Galbreath made the announcement during last night’s city council meeting.  Galbreath told the city’s elected leaders that parents are aware of growing reports about the propensity […]

Brandon Burton has moved up the ladder in Walhalla government.  The fire chief was approved last night by the city council to be the new city administrator, in place of Brent Taylor who resigned.  Burton had served as interim administrator.  He’ll work under a three-year contract that will pay him $70 thousand a year and provide him a city car.  […]

The board of directors of the Pioneer Rural Water District got a look at state DOT drawings that portend major changes for the large intersection in what’s considered Fair Play village.  For many motorists, negotiating where SC 59, 182, and 243 converge can be a dicey scenario.  The displayed drawings show the state proposes a pair of T-intersections that’ll apparently […]

A 17-year old left her home yesterday morning through a bedroom window, and a search of the property by deputies did not locate her.  Now Adrianna Marie Redondo is considered a missing person, and her information has been entered into the database of NCIC, the National Crime Information Center.  Adrianna was last seen in a white T-shirt and ripped blue […]

The governing board of Pioneer Rural Water District received an eye-popping estimate for what it’s going to cost to re-locate a pair of water lines to make way for a highway widening project.  According to General Manager Terry Pruitt, Pioneer officials have been told the estimate is $8 million dollars to re-locate two lines that carry water between Townville and […]

When it comes to the matter of Oconee’s sanitary sewer operations, the buck often stops with Chris Eleazer.  And his employers like the job that he’s doing.  Eleazer has worked as executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority at Seneca since 2017 and is only the third such director in the approximate 40-year history of piper sewer that links […]