Category: News

State troopers are attempting to learn who drove a vehicle that left the scene of a fatal accident this morning on I-85 in Greenville County.  Trooper Brandon Bolt says the accident, fatal to the driver and sole occupant of a Honda Civic, was clocked at 6:47 this morning on 85 northbound near the 44 mile marker.  An unknown vehicle struck […]

A Seneca regulatory board stamped its approval last night on a certificate of appropriateness for changes to a downtown building to allow for a new restaurant and bar.  The location is 106 E. North First Street, a building that once housed offices for the Homebuilders Association of Oconee.  Certificate applicants last night were Kim and Drue Yates.  Changes proposed for […]

An outside consultant has concluded that the Seneca police department can benefit from additional sensitivity training.  And the consultant, Loretta Smith, also found that a re-examination of hiring practices is in order.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, says Smith’s work has been completed and will be factored in as the city goes about finding a permanent successor to retired chief John […]

South Carolina DHEC credits state firefighters with a significant impact in the battle against opioid overdose deaths by administering antidotes. A milestone number of 200 naloxone administrations for suspected overdoses was achieved last week. The Reducing Opioid Loss of Life (ROLL) program is voluntary and trains any fire department to administer the opioid antidote naloxone, including departments not staffed with […]

In today’s South Carolina DHEC report, 755 new cases of COVID-19 and 20 additional deaths.  Twelve of those cases are Oconee County residents.  These numbers boost the statewide case total, so far, to nearly 163,500 and the death toll to 3,587.  The total number of test results reported to DHEC statewide Sunday was 6,158 and the positivity was 12.3%.  Since […]

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative has found a partner for its project to spread high-speed internet across its five-county service territory.  Jim Lovinggood, president/CEO, today announced a partnership with WC-FIBER, a subsidiary of Abbeville-based West Carolina Telephone Cooperative.  According to the results of two-year study, Blue Ridge members have shown a need for high-speed internet across large parts of the electric […]

  Pistol, rifle, shotgun. They are among the weaponry stolen in a home burglary over the weekend near Westminster.  A 27-year old man has been arrested.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, William Kyle Craig of Howling Lane was arrested and jailed Saturday on charges of grand larceny and first degree burglary.  Some of the stolen weaponry has been retrieved […]

If you are returning in-person your completed mail ballot, there is no need to wait in the line outside the Oconee County administrative complex on S. Pine Street in Walhalla.  The outdoor line is for persons casting their ballot inside.  Joy Scharich, elections director, says if you are returning a completed ballot in a sealed envelope, go directly to the […]

Seven new cases of COVID-19 popped up on the virus tracking page kept by the Oconee public schools for Friday, October 23.  They are as follows:  an employee at Walhalla James Brown Elementary; a student at West-Oak High/Hamilton Career Center; a student at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary; a case at the West-Oak High bus area; and three Seneca High School […]

The state health agency has updated numbers (from the weekend) that show Oconee’s total of virus deaths during the pandemic has reached 33, thirty-one of those deaths officially confirmed.  DHEC also projects two probable deaths.