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The manslaughter case against Hunter Lee Hunnicutt was concluded in the Oconee courtroom yesterday, but there’s one unresolved companion case remaining. And it was a head scratcher for the presiding jurist. The defense yesterday submitted itself to the judge’s sentence for voluntary manslaughter, but motioned to allow Hunnicutt to withdraw his 2019 plea to burglary first degree. Judge Lawton McIntosh […]
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A 67-year old West Union man died yesterday afternoon in the Oconee Memorial emergency department after a one-vehicle accident a block from Walhalla’s Main Street. Coroner Addis identified the deceased as Stephen Charles Addis, of whom the coroner suspects, may have sustained a medical event preceding the accident. Shortly after 11 am, public safety responders rushed to the accident scene […]
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A young man was sentenced this afternoon for his part in the murder of an elderly woman in Seneca nearly three years ago. This was sentencing day for Hunter Lee Hunnicutt, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter a few months after co-defendant Dakota Brown shot and killed Geraldine Castle, Brown’s grandmother. Judge McIntosh’s sentence: 15 years suspended to seven years […]
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Sixty years ago next month will mark anniversary number 60 of the date that a military flight vanished, with no trace of the plane or its passengers ever having been found. One of those missing was an army officer from Pickens, SFC Ross C. Walker. On Wednesday, March 16 at noon ET, Wreaths Across America will stream a live event […]
Read moreEnough of this winter. A 101.7 WGOG listener is eager to plant for a garden in 2022. He requested that we find out when the official last frost was recorded last spring. As supplied by U-S Weather Observer Barbara Wilson, the last day on which she noted frost last spring was April 23. That’s useful information for a green thumb […]
Read moreGrand larceny, failure to report striking highway fixtures, and refusal to accompany an arresting officer are among the various charges meted out to a man who allegedly tried to elude a Walhalla cop by running into woods in two different parts of the city. The city police outlined an incident early Sunday in which roadside signs were toppled in a […]
Read moreThe allegation, as noted in law enforcement records, reads: “Exposing Another to HIV Virus.” Capt. Tim Rice, interim Walhalla police chief, says notification was received from the police in the Greenville County municipality of Fountain Inn that a 32-year old resident of that city was being held in the Greenville Detention Center. According to Rice, Nicholas Fount Phillips has been […]
Read moreAn explanation has been offered as to why 10 or more shade trees were removed from the grounds of the Shaver Recreation Complex at Seneca. 94.1 The Lake learned today from Rick Lacey, the recreation director, the trees became casualties after the department was faced with moving back outfield fences to accommodate the city’s hosting next year of a 12-and-under […]
Read moreProperty owners on Seneca’s Sunrise Lane and those in that general neighborhood in the vicinity of the fire department are being invited to a public information meeting tomorrow night at 7 o’clock at the fire department. Ed Halbig, director of Seneca planning and community development, announces the purpose of the meeting is to impart information and receive Sunrise Lane and […]
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Law enforcement’s war on drugs continued Monday in Utica. A traffic stop on Goddard Avenue resulted in the charge of trafficking in methamphetamine against a motorcycle operator, David Allen Abbott of E. Main Street. According to the sheriff’s office, will a deputy requested driver’s license and motorcycle insurance information, 54-year old Abbott dropped a plastic bag to the ground.
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