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Next time an extreme weather event interrupts Westminster utility services the city will establish its own call center at city hall. That’s what Kevin Bronson, the administrator, announced during council’s first meeting following the big freeze of Christmas weekend. Because the five-degree weather came during a holiday period, the city’s contracted call service did not have enough staff manning the […]
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Tabor Road and E. North Avenue. They have in common a crying need for attention as the result of Christmas weekend when temperatures fell as low as five degrees. Kevin Harbin, interim utilities director for Westminster, announced last night city workers are to coordinate today with the County of Oconee to protect an exposed water line on Tabor Road as […]
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Audited financial numbers of the city of Westminster led a firm of outside CPA’s to deliver a clean opinion for the year that finished June 30. Marcy Loucks of the McKinley Cooper and Company delivered copies of the annual audit to last night’s city council meeting. One of the bright spots, as both Loucks and city administrator Kevin Bronson, draw […]
Read moreAll nine votes cast in yesterday’s special West Union election went to political newcomer Carolina Mendoza. As the result, she’s the unofficial winner of an unexpired term on the four-member town council.
Read moreWatch for it tonight: Mayor Alexander of Seneca, at the start of tonight’s council meeting, is to issue a 150th Anniversary (Sesquicentennial) proclamation. It’s to set the tone for one year of celebrating Oconee’s largest municipality that formed in 1873 — on opposite sides of a railroad track still in use today.
Read moreJeff Duncan, 3rd District member of the U-S House, is touting 10 pieces of legislation introduced, according to his office, at the start of the 118th Congress in Washington. Here are a few of the examples offered by the Laurens Republican: a resolution to forbid the release of GITMO prisoners into the U-S; the “Rush Was Right” bill, a measure […]
Read moreOlivia Lee, senior at Walhalla High, delivered a speech last month to the board of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative. Her talk was titled, “Time to Lead.” In Olivia’s high school life, she has shown signs of someday becoming an adult leader. She represents South Carolina in a national cooperative program and will be in Nashville, Tennessee in two months […]
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People came out of their apartments yesterday near Seneca to see what the commotion was about. A deputy sheriff investigated a fight at the Keowee School Road apartments in Bountyland and placed a 30-year old man in the back of his squad car. That individual was charged with public disorderly conduct – a disturbance that apparently originated over who had […]
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An Oconee jury has been selected for South Carolina vs. Steven Lee Duncan. Jason Alderman, deputy solicitor, says Duncan faces charges of failing to stop for a blue light and trafficking in methamphetamine between 10 and 28 grams. Judge Sprouse set the start of trial for 9:30 tomorrow morning in the General Sessions Courtroom at Walhalla. Defendant Duncan has been […]
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Walgreens announces that, effective January 4, its Westminster location no longer offers pharmacy services. However, in a letter to pharmacy customers, Walgreens says the front-end store operations of its Westminster location remain open. Pharmacy customers are advised that their prescription records are available at all Walgreens, including the Sandifer Boulevard one near Seneca.
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