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Walhalla’s voters decide today who gets to fill an open seat on their six-member city council. The ballot candidates are Gwen Owens and Christy Marlow. For voters who make their way to the polls at the EMS/Rescue Squad building, the sun will shine and the temperature should hit 80 degrees. There is a slight chance for showers between 2 and […]
Read moreMountain Rest, SC — Doris Lee Nicholson, 79, wife of John L. Nicholson, of 330 Linda R. Way, Mountain Rest, passed away, Sunday, April 11, 2021, at Oconee Memorial Hospital. A native of Oconee County, SC, Mrs. Nicholson was the daughter of the late Ernest and Clara George Lee. She was a member of Mountain Rest Baptist Church. […]
Read moreTo promote public health and recognize April 11-17 as National STD Awareness Week, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) clinics are participating in a day of no-cost sexually transmitted disease (STD) screening for South Carolinians. From 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday, April 15, residents can visit their local DHEC health department to be tested for hepatitis C, HIV, chlamydia, […]
Read moreSouth Carolina DHEC reports 453 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, including three in Oconee County. And, for the data at 11:59 Saturday night, there were no additional South Carolina virus deaths. Of 15,330 test results, the positivity was 4%.
Read moreA second Westminster man has been arrested in the continued investigation of an armed robbery December 16 at a home in Fair Play. The latest man arrested, Cody Austin Grant, is charged with larceny and armed robbery at a Durham Brown Road home in which an occupant was assaulted and a Chevy Malibu was stolen. Twenty-four year old Grant was […]
Read moreCity planning commissioners this month will tackle the proposition of re-zoning as it relates to box stores and large chain retail stores doing business in Walhalla. They will do so in a 5:30 pm public meeting Monday, April 19 at the Depot. Mayor Edwards has made clear the public will get the chance to comment and offer feedback before the […]
Read moreMay 29 will be a big day for the seniors of Oconee’s three high schools. That morning, at 8:30, the graduating seniors of Seneca, Walhalla, and West-Oak receive their diplomas in separate ceremonies to be held in the football stadiums at the three schools. For a second year, COVID-19 precautions are involved. Each graduate gets one ticket that allows up […]
Read moreOakway – Clara Lee Grant Blackwell, 89, beloved wife of the late Paul Leon Blackwell, passed away April 10th, 2021 at Lakeview Assisted Living. A native of Oconee County, she was the daughter of the late Albert W. Grant and Isabelle Bice Grant. Mrs. Blackwell was retired from Jantzen where she worked as a seamstress and was a member […]
Read moreTwo more people have been arrested in the investigation of the fatal hit and run that took the life of Toccoa, Georgia resident Knox Whiten. Twenty-one years old, Whiten was a student at the University of Georgia after having completed the Oconee Christian Academy near Seneca. Radio WNEG at Toccoa quotes the Athens-Clarke County police as saying two Athens residents, […]
Read moreThe Clemson City Council has issued a statement to the effect that it has, as yet, made no commitment to allow an artist to place a troll statue in the city. The artist Thomas Dambo has built trolls in places such as Chicago, the Denver area, and in the European country of Denmark, where trolls are said to be popular […]
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