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Walhalla, SC — Lois Jane Lee, 58, of 283 Stribling Shoals Rd., Walhalla, passed away Friday, August 30, 2019, at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital. Memorial service will be held at 4:00 P.M. on Friday, September 6, 2019, at Ebenezer Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in her granddaughter’s name, Natalie Barkley, to The Gathering Place […]
Read moreWest Union, SC — Ralph Marion Smith, 89, of West Union, passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2019 at Cottingham Hospice House. He was the husband of the late Sarah Louise Green Smith, wife of forty-six years and the mother of his daughters. He later married Nellie Towe Justice Smith until her passing in 2018. Graveside service will be held […]
Read moreThe board of architectural review in Clemson has announced a hearing next week for a 123 proposed development that has engendered talk and attention on both sides of the Seneca River Bridge. It’s that mixed-use development proposed at 894 Tiger Boulevard, the empty property that, for many years, was a Holiday Inn motel. Applicant Clemson Dockside LP requests a preliminary […]
Read moreA member of the Bountyland business community has an idea that might serve a dual purpose in lessening traffic congestion in the Seneca bedroom community which 50 years ago was a quiet place in the country. Houses had yet to be built on Keowee, and 28 highway thru Bountyland was a two-lane road. Tate Rochester of R&R Fabricators thinks a […]
Read moreThe police in Seneca say they now believe their suspects in two days of burglaries at the local homeless shelter acted together. Chief Covington says the crimes occurred at Our Daily Rest on E. Main on both Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the accused gave a Utica address; the other, a Tennessee address. Covington says, “Ten new warrants have been […]
Read moreThe project for the West Terminal Apron Expansion at the Oconee Regional Airport makes its way to the meeting table of the county leaders. County Council will be asked Tuesday to approve expenditures to make the project reality. Part of the project entails a partial re-location of the nearby Mount Nebo Church Road which is considered to be an obstruction […]
Read moreA Walhalla banker is one of seven tri-county community leaders elected to serve on the Tech Foundation Board of Directors. She’s Alisa McCall Suddeth, senior vice president and chief talent and marketing officer for Community First Bank, Walhalla. She holds a B.S. in administrative management from Clemson University and currently is enrolled in a master’s program at Southern Wesleyan University. […]
Read moreA 23-year old man was charged this week with crimes last May at an address in the Madison-Cleveland area of Oconee County. Law enforcement authorities list the following charges against Cleveland Pike Road resident Jeffrey Seth Lamar Hawkins: burglary/safe cracking, larceny, and wearing masks. According to arrest warrants issued by Magistrate Daniel Pollock, Hawkins is accused of wearing a mask […]
Read moreWalhalla has made changes to its trash pick up routes to accommodate the Labor Day holiday on Monday. Trash that normally would have been picked up on Monday will instead be collected Tuesday and Wednesday next week. If you are a Walhalla sanitation customer, please have your roll cart out by 7 o’clock Tuesday morning. All other routes will run […]
Read moreTwo men are in custody charged in separate burglaries at Seneca’s Our Daily Rest. The crimes occurred Tuesday and Wednesday. By Wednesday, the police had their suspects corralled, but in the process blood spilled. Two police officers and one of the suspects fell thru a plate glass window at the Main Street Garage building. They sustained cuts, scrapes and bruises. […]
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