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Fire Safe South Carolina looks on Oconee County favorably.  Oconee Emergency Services, along with 131 other fire and rescue departments across the state, has been designated a “Fire Safe South Carolina” Community.  County emergency personnel finished 200 hours’ training to improve data quality, in-home safety visits, and learn additional skills in assessment and risk reduction. Each agency newly-designated as a […]

Representatives of the engineering company Bolton & Menk are atop the agenda for the April meeting of Westminster City Council at 6 tomorrow night at the city fire department, for the purpose of presenting a master plan for the downtown.

The pre-meeting agenda indicates Oconee County fathers are primed for final action tomorrow to lend a hand to a Texas developer to build large housing complexes inside the county, just east of Clemson University.  The third reading is planned tomorrow night on ordinance 2022-32, an arrangement with a project previously known as Greenpaw to permit “certain payments in lieu of […]

Jim Mann overcame a challenge and held onto the chair of the Oconee Republican Party.  In balloting Saturday, the county’s conventioneers gave him a 75-vote margin over his challenger, Roel Cruz.  Some 241 Republicans were seated and deemed qualified Saturday morning to vote to fill the offices of their county party for 2023.  Other results:  Rachel Moore prevailed over Karen […]

Their minister predicts that Walhalla Methodists will be no shrinking violets when it comes to whether to splinter away or remain affiliated under the umbrella of the United Methodist Church (UMC).  The Rev. Kevin Lindley is speaking of his congregants, the members of the St. Luke United Methodist Church.  They like other Methodists across the country are approaching a decision […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting a Pill Take Back Day at two different locations next Saturday, April 22nd . The Pill Take Back Day will be held from 10am until 2pm as part of the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The drop off locations will be located at the Oconee County Law Enforcement Center, located at […]

On next week’s agenda for Walhalla City Council are amendments to an ordinance that, if voted, would allow city residents to keep up to four domesticated female chickens.  Councilman Keehn has suggested that allowing some urban farming, such as hens laying eggs, could help supplement the budget of city residents who would appreciate saving on their grocery store bills which, […]

A judge’s ruling throwing out a challenge to life terms granted some members of Clemson University’s governing body is under appeal.  The appeal, on behalf of John Sloan and NOLAS Trading Company, was filed this week in the Pickens Common Pleas Court on behalf of the plaintiffs by the Carpenter Law Firm of Greenville.  Case defendants are seven men and […]

The agenda for the April get together of Walhalla’s elected leaders runs four pages, which bodes well for a long night next week at city hall.  Their meeting will be 5:30 Tuesday evening.  The council will hear from Dr. Michelle Hall, a Clemson poultry specialist, at a time whether the city should relax its rules about wildlife and, in at […]