Category: News

Fire last night destroyed a home near Lake Keowee. Keowee-Ebenezer, along with Walhalla, fire fighters were among those on the scene on Westwood Bay Drive near the Keowee School Road. Walhalla Fire Department assisted West Union on a call to attend to smoke from a clothers driver at a home on Rosehill Circle.

Walhalla’s Holloway Street is closed this morning—out of concern for flooding issues. And Walhalla Fire Department urges all motorists to proceed carefully as all streets and roads are soaked from continuous rainfalls. Puddles have accumulated in some locations.

Two former Liberty residents are regular riders on Seneca’s passenger buses. The free service gets the Taylors to where they need to go, such as to the doctor and stores. However, Stacey Taylor says, at times, they witness rude behavior including riders who drink alcohol. Bus drivers can’t see or hear everything, as their first duty is to keep their […]

In two days of public hearings, Seneca and Clemson Area Transit officials came away with many suggestions on how to make better the free bus passenger service in Seneca and surrounding area. Among those suggestions is to add and expand routes. Ed Halbig, Seneca’s point man for “CAT” service, wrote down the ideas expressed by the City Hall crowd. Most […]

When Camille Hess went for emergency treatment at the Oconee hospital, an ophthalmologist was not immediately available. How soon she was later able to find a specialist in Greenville is an issue in Hess’s damage suit against the hospital and an E-R doctor. Today Hess’s lawyer called his second witness—an ophthalmologist from Johns Hopkins University. The lawsuit filed for Hess […]

A group of conservation organizations today asked a federal judge to block the start of seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean, a precursor to offshore drilling, until the case can be fully heard in court. The motion for a preliminary injunction filed in federal court in Charleston contends, among other things, the Trump administration’s approval for five companies to […]

A home fire yesterday afternoon in Easley took the life of the home’s occupant, Donnie Rider. He was 64-years old. Rider’s wife survived the fire, but the couple’s pet dog also died. The fire was reported shortly after 3 o’clock at Easley’s 113 North 7th Street. The city and the state police are investigating.

A resolution to re-adjust the fees that the public will pay to use Walhalla’s Stumphouse Mountain bike park was taken off the table during last night’s city council meeting for further study. The increases suggested to rent park shelters concerns the mayor and council members. Those fees would increase from $50 to $100 dollars for renting the shelter for a […]

Walhalla Councilman Robbie Burrell is a partner in area Subway restaurants, but he considers the move to the downtown of an independent restaurant a good thing for all who are in the business of feeding the public. Burrell and his colleagues last night gave the first of two readings to a set of rules that will govern the Oconee Station […]

Oconee County’s cash position stands it in good stead until new revenue begins flowing in the fall, according to the county’s latest audit. With about $14 million in its general fund, the county had about three and a half months of operating capital. Accountant Grant Davis, of the accounting firm Mauldin & Jenkins, told Council members on Tuesday. Davis’s assertion […]