Man who ran down airport taxiway arrested

Authorities in Stephens County, Georgia arrested a Toccoa man who allegedly ditched a stolen vehicle and fled by running down an airport taxiway.  Radio WNEG reports a K-9 belonging to the Stephens County Sheriff’s Office flushed Kenneth Leon Kell out of the woods.  Fifty-eight-year-old Kell was being held in jail facing charges of criminal trespass, theft by taking motor vehicle, […]

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Special court proceeding winds down

Indications are an Oconee jury will deliberate the case today of a Westminster area couple who are appealing as too low a condemnation award for surrendering part of their land to allow for the crossing of an electric power transmission line.  Late yesterday afternoon it appeared the only testimony remaining was that from an appraiser and one of the homeowners.  […]

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Alton Murphy

Walhalla– Alton Milford Murphy, 89, passed away Monday, January 23, 2023 at his residence.   Born in Oconee County, South Carolina, Alton was the son of the late Deed Murphy and Victoria Dodgens Roach.  Alton was retired from Duke Power, of the Baptist Faith, and he was and an avid hunter and fisherman.   Alton is survived by his daughters, […]

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Larry Wales

  Westminster– Lawrence Richard “Larry” Wales, 76, passed away on, Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at his residence.   Born in Traverse City, Michigan, Larry was the son of the late Donald Ray Wales and Mary Lou Krogstad Wales.  Larry was a retired Computer Coding Technician, attended Foothills Church, and was a United States Air Force Veteran having served during the […]

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Gearline Mildred Nichols Quarles

 Walhalla, SC — Gearline Mildred Nichols Quarles, age 83, wife of Neville J. Quarles, died January 23, 2023 at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital.   Mrs. Quarles was born in Seneca to the late Correll and Lila Nichols. She was a member of Poplar Springs Baptist Church as was retired from BiLo.   Mrs. Quarles is survived by her sisters: […]

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Property owner on the witness stand

Debbie Slisher rattled off a number of figures used to calculate the damages she claims to her Westminster area home and acreage by the taking of a power company that crossed her property for a transmission line near the Dr. John’s Road.  Called to the stand by her attorney, Slisher gave a figure of nearly $400 thousand loss to the […]

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Dangerous thunderstorms likely tomorrow

Here are excerpts from this afternoon’s advisory issued from Columbia by the state’s severe weather official, Frank Strait: “Signs continue to point toward an active weather day tomorrow with the risk of dangerous thunderstorms. A storm now centered over West Texas will be the culprit. If you pick a hazard, this storm is causing it somewhere today. Areas from the […]

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Testimony underway in “special” court proceeding

The right-of-way property manager for the plaintiff opened the civil trial testimony this morning at the Oconee Courthouse.  Columbia-based Central Electric Power has brought a Doctor John’s Road, Westminster couple into the court for a jury determination of just compensation for the taking of a strip of the couple’s property.  The taking was made necessary to allow a transmission line […]

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