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Announced outside Westminster Fire Department tonight: the following three city council candidates are the unofficial winners today of city council seats: Adam Dunn, 126 votes; Audrey Reese, 120; and Daby Snipes, 114. Others who finished were Jerry Sanders, 96; Wendy Golten, 78; and Susan Ramey, 63. About 200 voters cast ballots. A few of the voters cast absentee ballots, and […]
Read moreWhat started as a Walhalla police stop of a car driver suspected of traffic offenses turned to a case in which the police filed multiple charges against the driver. The stop of a car driven by Christopher Alex Seymore on N. Poplar Street late Sunday night resulted in charges against the 22-year old including possession of schedule II controlled substance; […]
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Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Fair Play man over this past weekend, on a Fugitive from Justice warrant, due to charges in the state of Georgia. 63 year old Brian Scott Mackay, who has a listed address of S. Davis Drive, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:49am Monday. A hold has been placed on […]
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A subject wanted on an Attempted Murder charge was arrested early this morning in the Cheohee Valley area of Tamassee. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that 47 year old Nathan Fred McCall was arrested around 4am today on Kimberly Drive. McCall was taken into custody by Fugitive Task Force agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division. […]
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One person was seen being stretchered into an ambulance at the scene late this morning of a Seneca car accident. That wreck in the East End intersection (123 & SC 130/the Rochester Highway) backed up Rochester Highway traffic headed to the intersection.
Read more“Poet, a pauper, a pirate, pawn, and a king” — a memorable line from a 20th-century song that outlined a man’s long life. Tributes were said yesterday to the long life of a Walhallan, a man who devoted 44 years of service to his city. Friends, family, and associates gathered in a Main Street event center to recognize Julian Stoudemire. […]
Read moreSaturday night fighting in Walhalla…The police say the peace was disturbed at Wagener Circle apartments when 15 people fought in the middle of a street and were still fighting when the police arrived around 10:45 Saturday night. The charge of fighting was lodged aganst five people. The five accused of violating a city ordinance were identified in lae enforcement reports […]
Read moreThe police in Walhalla provided details today of the arrest of a man late last week in a case of litter at the premises of a W. Main Street laundromat. Law enforcement records show the charge of littering — 15 pounds or 27 cubic feet 1st/2nd offense—against Coffee Road resident Bradley Wayne Hockenberry. A police officer said he viewed CCTV […]
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The Oconee Soil and Water Conservation District, partnering with the national association, is celebrating Conservation Stewardship Week. The theme is “Healthy Soil, Healthy Life.” Last week Oconee County Council proclaimed the week locally, and today the district sponsors the start of the Oconee Seed Exchange, in the lobby of the Agricultural Building, 301 W. South Broad Street, Walhalla. The county’s […]
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On at least one South Carolina government website, Oconee County’s population is listed at 80,015. And an official of the county’s Economic Alliance says 80,015 is a number that her office feels confident about as it goes to market the county for economic development. With the 2020 Census, the number of Oconeeans had been pegged in the range of 78,000. […]
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