Category: Editorials

Jerry Dyar and staff at the office of Oconee Veterans Affairs invites county veterans and their family members for a holiday cheer event 9 to 4 tomorrow at the office, 223 Kenneth Street, Walhalla.  They promise to have finger foods galore.

Walhalla is anointing a long-time, downtown fixture to be this year’s Grand Marshall in the city’s parade.  Abed Yassen, for 50 years the owner-operator the Steak House, will lead Saturday’s parade.  The city invites all to take-in the 5 o’clock parade and tree-lighting ceremony.

Deputy Solicitor Alderman says David McMahan, who was an investigator for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, will be called to testify during day two of SC. v. Mack Gaines.  A Seneca resident, Gaines is charged with abuse or neglect resulting in death — vulnerable adult.  He’s the son of the victim, Alma Louise Gaines, who died in early 2018.  Yesterday the […]

The board governing South Carolina DHEC will be asked tomorrow to sign off on a pair of enforcement actions impacting two entities in Pickens County.  The largest penalty, $4,500, was to have been paid last month by Clemson University to settle violations of the Hazardous Waste Management Act.  A DHEC inspection in June last year turned up a failure to […]

An Oconee deputy dialed an 864 number and heard a man answer “Sheriff’s Department.”  The deputy told that man he could be charged with impersonating an officer.  The man uttered profanity and hung up.  The deputy was suspicious when she got a cell call from someone claiming he was a “Sergeant Johnson from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office.”  The deputy […]

Back from this week’s legislative session at the state capital, Oconee Rep. Bill Whitmire says the House is determined to raise teacher pay and other benefits, mainly because the state is facing a large teacher shortage.  Whitmire says teachers are, in some cases, retiring and some have decided to leave the profession.  The increased pay benefits Whitmire, in his words, […]