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A young man was sentenced this afternoon for his part in the murder of an elderly woman in Seneca nearly three years ago. This was sentencing day for Hunter Lee Hunnicutt, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter a few months after co-defendant Dakota Brown shot and killed Geraldine Castle, Brown’s grandmother. Judge McIntosh’s sentence: 15 years suspended to seven years […]
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Sixty years ago next month will mark anniversary number 60 of the date that a military flight vanished, with no trace of the plane or its passengers ever having been found. One of those missing was an army officer from Pickens, SFC Ross C. Walker. On Wednesday, March 16 at noon ET, Wreaths Across America will stream a live event […]
Read moreSalem, SC– Charles Douglas McKinney, 63, of 525 North Little River Road, Salem, passed away on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at Cottingham Hospice House. A native of Transylvania County, NC, Mr. McKinney was the son of Dorothy Elizabeth Palmer McKinney Justice and late Charles Lewis McKinney. He worked for McKinney Tree Huggers and attended Whitewater Baptist Church. Mr. […]
Read moreRandall Forrest Dillard of 120 Autumnwood Lane, Walhalla, SC was welcomed home by Jesus on February 22, 2022. Born December 30, 1937, to the late Forrest Ben Dillard and the late Nellie Hughes Dillard. He grew up in Newry, SC, and raised five children with the love of his life, the late Ploma Elizabeth Capps. He […]
Read moreEnough of this winter. A 101.7 WGOG listener is eager to plant for a garden in 2022. He requested that we find out when the official last frost was recorded last spring. As supplied by U-S Weather Observer Barbara Wilson, the last day on which she noted frost last spring was April 23. That’s useful information for a green thumb […]
Read moreGrand larceny, failure to report striking highway fixtures, and refusal to accompany an arresting officer are among the various charges meted out to a man who allegedly tried to elude a Walhalla cop by running into woods in two different parts of the city. The city police outlined an incident early Sunday in which roadside signs were toppled in a […]
Read moreThe allegation, as noted in law enforcement records, reads: “Exposing Another to HIV Virus.” Capt. Tim Rice, interim Walhalla police chief, says notification was received from the police in the Greenville County municipality of Fountain Inn that a 32-year old resident of that city was being held in the Greenville Detention Center. According to Rice, Nicholas Fount Phillips has been […]
Read moreAn explanation has been offered as to why 10 or more shade trees were removed from the grounds of the Shaver Recreation Complex at Seneca. 94.1 The Lake learned today from Rick Lacey, the recreation director, the trees became casualties after the department was faced with moving back outfield fences to accommodate the city’s hosting next year of a 12-and-under […]
Read moreProperty owners on Seneca’s Sunrise Lane and those in that general neighborhood in the vicinity of the fire department are being invited to a public information meeting tomorrow night at 7 o’clock at the fire department. Ed Halbig, director of Seneca planning and community development, announces the purpose of the meeting is to impart information and receive Sunrise Lane and […]
Read moreIf a Clemson fan can remember the contributions that Craig Mobley made to the athletic program, that fan likely will have a long memory. For it was in 1968 that the scholarship student-athlete, a basketball player, became Clemson’s first African-American scholarship student-athlete in any sport. Those at last night’s Seneca City Council were told this by Rhondda Thomas, who continues […]
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