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A public information meeting today will center on the prospects that a Georgia company will open a rock quarry near Lavonia. Vulcan Materials is holding a meet and greet this afternoon with people living near the proposed location for the quarry, highway 59 near the Lavonia city limit. The company spent $3.5 million for 225 acres there. Lake Hartwell Radio […]
Read moreIn a city hall meeting, it was not lost on Rosemary Bailes and other members of Walhalla Planning Commission that, if things pan out in the next couple of years, visitors to the city will get the chance to book a room one block off Main Street, take in a performance, and make a short walk to restaurants in the […]
Read moreA mid-afternoon mishap yesterday on SC 11 near the 123 interchange. A pontoon boat dislodged from a trailer and flipped over.
Read moreCOVID-19 Test percentage positivity during a three-day period last week ranged between 4.7% and 5.5%. For each day Thursday-thru-Saturday–South Carolina DHEC counts–showed total daily cases below one thousand. New confirmed deaths were six on Thursday; 22 Friday; and 42 Saturday, which included one Oconeean.
Read moreWest Union, SC — Linda Jean Long, 75, of West Union, passed away on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, at Cottingham Hospice House. A native of Mountain Rest, SC, Ms. Long was the daughter of the late Rose Bithy Long. She was a retired plant worker and a member of Mountain Grove Baptist Church. Ms. Long is […]
Read moreWalhalla – David Benjamin Swafford, 58, passed away October 15th , 2021 at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hosptial. David was born in Brevard, North Carolina and was the son of the late Ernest David Swafford and Hilda Jolene Mathis Simpson. David worked as a heating and air technician and enjoyed playing the guitar and was of the Church Of […]
Read moreWestminster – Julia Mae McAlister Saylors, 77, wife of Talmadge J. Saylors, passed away on Monday, October 18th, 2021 at her residence. Julia was born in Oconee County, South Carolina, and was the daughter of the Macky Roy McAlister Sr. and Mabel Fitzgerald McAlister. Julia was a retired operator at Kendall/ Covidien. Julia was an active member Rock Hill […]
Read moreAmanda Brock, Oconee County administrator, acknowledges there are additional properties in the packet for today’s annual delinquent tax sale. And, she says, COVID and the hard economic times are likely to be factors contributing to that. It’s a well-attended sale—with potential bidders parking cars, trucks, and even a motorcycle in the parking lot of the Center for Performing Arts Center, […]
Read moreWalhalla’s Chicopee Field was the scene this weekend of an arrest made by the city police. Multiple charges were placed against a West Union resident, Bryan Ashley Evans. The police say one of the charges—assault police officer while arresting arrest—was made as a police officer attempted to serve the 42-year old Evans with a court bench warrant.
Read moreAn Oconee County delinquent property tax sale is attracting hundreds of people, apparently out for a bargain, to today’s event in the Performing Center for the Arts. The parking lot and adjoining streets are full of parked cars and trucks.
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