Durham to guard individual rights

Oconee County Council’s newest member, Matthew Durham, jump-started the council’s first meeting of 2021 with a declaration that, in his four-year term, he is going to try to safeguard individual rights that pertain to guns, property rights, and freedom of speech. The District Two member also vowed that the county should accept no financial help from the federal government if […]

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Girl missing for two and a half weeks

A 16-year old girl, last seen walking on a Walhalla street, remains missing after two and a half weeks.  The police appeal to the public for help in finding Brenna Elliott.  She was last seen Friday, December 18 on foot on S. Chestnut Street.  Brenna is a white female, brown hair, blue eyes, about 5’.  She has a nose piercing […]

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Back to school means back to COVID counting

Oconee public schools registered five new cases of COVID-19 on Monday–the first day back from the Christmas and New Year’s Day break.  Four of the cases are students at the following schools:  Walhalla High, Keowee Elementary, Northside Elementary, and Blue Ridge Elementary.  The fifth case is that of an employee at Seneca Middle School.

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Resolving sewer issues to satisfy health regulators

Walhalla’s utilities superintendent is optimistic the city can comply with a consent order to satisfy state regulators concerned about the city’s sewer problems.  The city council complied with Scott Parris’s request last night to commit up to $16 thousand dollars to pay for a consultant’s study of the problems and recommend how they are met.  Parris also announced that the […]

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Walhallan appeals to keep pet pigs

A Walhalla woman appealed to the city’s elected leaders last night to be allowed to keep two pot belly pigs as pets.  Rachel Pace pleaded for exemption from the city’s law against keeping livestock inside the corporate limits.  Pace lives on Morningside Drive, and the city received a complaint from a neighbor. Pace says her Vietnamese two pot belly pigs […]

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For health reasons, city hall lobby off limits

For the next 30 days, and starting today, the general public is not allowed inside the small Walhalla City Hall lobby.  The closing of the lobby space is deemed a public safety necessity as cases of COVID-19 continue to escalate.  Bill-paying customers are requested to temporarily satisfy their obligations by mail, in the drop box, by telephone, or by online.  […]

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Prayer requested for Walhalla councilman

Walhalla Councilman Dennis Owens remains in hospital with COVID-19, and Mayor Danny Edwards requests prayer for Owens.  At the start of a meeting last night, the mayor said that although Owens has been transferred to a Greenville hospital, he is improving and it’s hoped that with continued recovery, it won’t be too many weeks before the city can celebrate his […]

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New COVID numbers and hospital capacity figures

On this afternoon’s report from DHEC are 2,285 new confirmed cases and 12 more South Carolina deaths.  The new cases include 78 from Oconee.  Of 7,442 test results received statewide, the positive percentage was 30.7%.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has received information to indicate that bed use at the Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital was 68% and the ICU–the intensive care unit […]

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