Traffic tutorial from the Walhalla police

For Walhalla drivers unsure about how to maneuver the downtown streetscape alignment on Main Street, the police have issued the following directions and procedures.  On Main Street, from Ann to Tugaloo streets, you will find angled parking spaces, from which you can back out without entering a traffic lane.  Keep in mind the parking area is not a traffic lane […]

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Walhalla Design committee meets tomorrow

The Design Committee for Main Street Walhalla holds its first meeting tomorrow, and the Main Street director says if you have an interest in guiding the “look and feel” of the downtown you are cordially invited to attend.  The meeting will be from 4 to 5:30 pm tomorrow.  The committee is designed also to help promote and preserve an historical […]

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Beer truck plows thru guardrail

Parts of the Whitewater Falls Road north of Salem remain blocked to traffic this morning, in the aftermath of an accident early last night.  In that accident, we are told, an 18-wheeler truck plowed thru guardrail down an embankment into woods.  The truck was carrying beer.  The driver is believed to have sustained minor injuries only

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Special exception for a communications tower

Special exception is being made for a monopole tower at Mountain Rest.  Without dissent last night, the Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals granted the application of a law firm for a 195’ monopole communications tower in the vicinity of 851 Highway 107.  A monopole tower is one that has one stem or one pole anchored to the ground.  About this […]

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Exception denied for The Domes at Jocassee

Tourist leaders gave their endorsement, but it wasn’t enough for an Oconee regulatory board to green light a 12-site camping facility on the outskirts of the Devil’s Fork State Park.  The Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals last night denied the special exception for the project Domes at Jocassee to locate within the lake overlay district.  Fifteen of seventeen speakers at […]

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Fire call leads to arrests in Walhalla

The possibility for a home fire led to the arrests last week of two persons at a Walhalla home.  The police today identified the arrested as Ricky James Pierson, 53; and Tylyn Flossie Pierson, 27 on multiple charges of unlawful neglect of children.  By making his way into the Pierson home on Tyre B. Mauldin Street Thursday night, the police […]

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How Clemson University mitigated COVID spread

New research from Clemson University in a medical journal indicates how surveillance-based informative testing mitigates the spread of COVID-19 on campus.  And that, according to Clemson, paves the way for other institutions for mass-scale testing.  SBIT was implemented during the first two weeks of Clemson’s fall semester.  According to the study, random surveillance tests to identify outbreaks in residence halls […]

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