Category: News

Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute 100 Thomas Green Blvd., Clemson, SC 29631 Annually, before the beginning of each new session in the General Assembly, the League of Women Voters of the Clemson Area invites a few local legislators to discuss the accomplishments of the past session and the issues they hope to pursue in the […]

WALHALLA — Oconee County Emergency Management was notified by SC Department of Health and Environmental Control officials of the county’s first West Nile bird death case earlier last week. The deceased bird was found in central Oconee County, near the Poplar Springs community, according to Emergency Management Director Scott Krein. The exact location has not been released by officials at […]

Due to the forecast of heavy rain and possible thunderstorms, the Seneca Bobcats’s high school football game at Pendleton, scheduled for Friday night, was postponed until Monday night at 7:30. The game will decide the Region 1-AAA champion.

(Walhalla, SC)————————————-This morning around 6:36am, an inmate at the Oconee County Detention Center attempted self-harm to themselves. Detention officers conducted CRP and medical treatment to the inmate. EMS was called to the Detention Center as well. The inmate was transported to the hospital for treatment. Due to privacy concerns, the condition and the name of the inmate is not being […]

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster orders that the flags on all state buildings be lowered to half-staff until sunset on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, the day of the funeral for Investigator Farrah B. Turner of the Florence County Sheriff’s Office, who died in the line of duty. Gov. McMaster requests that flags over buildings of the political subdivisions of the state […]

The City of Westminster announces that the city council has called a Special Meeting for Monday, Oct. 29, 2018. The purpose of this meeting is to enter executive session in order to discuss a proposed contractual arrangement between the city and the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency (PMPA). Upon return to regular session, the Westminster City Council may or may not […]

10/26/18 Chief Burton of the Walhalla Fire Department says his responders had several calls Thursday night. Those included a medical call, a car fire on East South Boundary Street, and an abandoned structure fire off Playground Road and Patterson Road. The West Union Fire Department also responded to the structure fire. Chief Burton says there were no injuries and all […]

Motorists throughout the state need to be constantly aware of roaming white-tailed deer. Despite a persistent rumor, neither the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources nor any other state agency will compensate motorists for injuries or damages resulting from deer collisions. Besides practicing safe and defensive driving techniques, each motorist should carry adequate collision and comprehensive insurance. As the states’ […]

(Walhalla, SC)————————————-The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Pelzer man yesterday on multiple charges related to a series of crimes that occurred this summer on Dr. John’s Road in Westminster. On Monday of this week, the Sheriff’s Office issued a release regarding seeking the whereabouts of 26 year old Brandon Scott Hope of Slatton Shoals Road. Hope had outstanding arrest […]

The president of a Lake Keowee watchdog group says the numbers of deaths at the lake are high enough for there to be a meeting of the minds as to what can be done to lower the fatality rate. Jack Lewis says the Friends of Lake Keowee have received word that since 1993, there have been 35 deaths-18 of which […]