Officers fired upon in northeast Georgia

A publicly unidentified suspect is in custody in Stephens County, Georgia after, what’s reported, 18 rounds of gunfire were unloaded at deputies as officers answered a suspicious person complaint in the vicinity of Valley Drive. Radio WNEG reported deputies faced a suspect carrying a semi-automatic rifle.  The suspect’s gunfire grazed one deputy sheriff and sprayed the windshield and driver’s side […]

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Student-athlete perishes in Anderson County accident

A 16-year-old boy died in a one-car accident last evening on SC 187/the Wild Hog Road in Anderson County.  Chief Deputy Coroner Don McCown said the victim, Kveon M. Willis of Royston, Georgia, was a student-athlete at Madison County High School in Danielsville, Georgia.  McCown reported that the investigation shows Kveon was an unrestrained front-seat passenger in a Honda headed […]

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Jack Eugene Matheson

Westminster, SC – Jack Eugene Matheson, 75, husband of Joan Marie Cox Matheson, of Westminster, passed away Friday, April 28, 2023, at his home.   A native of Oconee County, Mr. Matheson was the son of the late Harold Melvin and Aileen Sanders Matheson.  He was formerly employed by C+T Backhoe and Dozer Service and was a Vietnam veteran in […]

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Verdicts for the plaintiffs

An Oconee jury returned verdicts early this afternoon in favor of the plaintiff, settling a week-long civil trial in the Common Pleas Court at Walhalla.  For breach of contract, the jury granted plaintiff 4105 Liberty Highway $850 thousand in actual damages and $400 thousand in punitive damages.  The damages are assessed against defendant Redland Properties.  For the claim of negligence, […]

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New historic marker

A new historic marker has gone up in the vicinity of the Oconee Courthouse.  Sources are saying it’s a marker at S. Tugaloo and Short streets to remember Allen Green, a prisoner killed at the hands of an angry mob nearly 100 years ago.  Covered now, the marker, it is said, is to be unveiled AT 3 pm tomorrow by […]

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Westminster’s next budget

A proposed budget to operate Westminster city government in 2023-24 is ready for the first of two required readings by the city council.  First reading planned for Tuesday, May 9.  For all purposes, it is proposed, the city expenses approach $28.5 million.  “Most notably,” says city administrator Kevin Bronson, is a proposed reduction in the City’s millage rate of 3.5 […]

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Accident near the Poplar Springs Bridge

Two cars traveling highway 28, the Blue Ridge Boulevard, made contact this morning, but the occupants avoided injury.  One car wound up in the median; the second crossed the opposite lanes of traffic and wound up in a ditch.  It happened just south of the West Union Road turn near the Poplar Springs Bridge.  A wrecker was required to remove […]

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