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Playground improvements and the Schroder Street water line are on the agenda for West Union Town Council at 6 o’clock tomorrow night at Town Hall.  Tuesday night is a meeting night also for governing bodies in Salem and Westminster.

The board at Clemson University likes the job that James Clements is doing.  On Friday, the board raised the president’s salary by $100 thousand a year and approved $50 thousand in deferred compensation.  Clements’ salary now exceeds $900 thousand a year.  Most of it is paid by the Clemson University Foundation.

Edda Cammick, chairwoman of Oconee County Council, says a one-hour Friday evening meeting with school district officials was cordial and pertained to the county’s interest in changing the distribution formula for funds derived from the county’s participation in multi-county industrial parks.  Currently, two-thirds of those funds go to the public schools and one-third to the county.  But Cammick tells 101.7/WGOG […]

For about a year, Walhalla has been pursuing approval for a new drinking water supply from Lake Keowee.  Scott Parris, the Walhalla utilities superintendent, is hopeful that the regulators this week will have the last pieces of information needed for a raw water intake.  According to Parris, engineers working on behalf of the city are in close contact with Duke Energy, which […]

The rains from Tropical Storm Nate delivered hard downpours across Oconee County. For a time last night, Oconee County was under a tornado warning.  The official Walhalla measurement:  5.07″. But other than damage to a downtown Walhalla building, no major problems are reported this morning.  The storm proved too much for the roof of the former Arthur Brown building in Walhalla.  […]

Senator Lindsey Graham has thrown his support behind a bill that he believes is a common sense approach to abortion.  The South Carolina Republican yesterday heralded a House-passed bill, the Pain-Capable Unborn Children Protection Act.  It passed the House Tuesday 237-189.  The bill offers protection to unborn children at 20 weeks after fertilization–a point at which, Graham says, there’s scientific […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has identified a registered sex offender as having been arrested this week in an investigation of alleged multiple sex offenses, in which the victim was a girl who, at the time, was between 12 and 14 years old.  Robert Keith Morgan, 32-year old resident of the Friendship Road, was jailed Wednesday at Walhalla.  According to the Sheriff’s […]

The issue of the mayor’s cabin on city property at the Chauga River is an agenda item for next week’s meeting of the Westminster City Council.  Under new business, the agenda  shows council members Doug Williams and Susan Ramey will raise the issue during Tuesday’s meeting.  At an August meeting, Williams quarreled with Mayor Brian Ramey over the deadline that the city […]