Category: News

Here’s the latest announcement from Westminster:  “Yesterday evening, Easter Sunday, about 6:20 PM a connection was made between two sections of pipe that completed the permanent re-routing of the water line between points west of Singleton Road & Hwy.123/ Toccoa Hwy. back to the water source. Approximately 300 households west of this point have been without water service since Saturday […]

Parts of Westminster’s water service territory have been placed under a boil water advisory, as the result of an 8-inch water line break and the collapse of the roadside fill Saturday along 123/the Toccoa Highway. The advisory applies to Westminster customers on Jenkins Bridge Road, Dixon Road, Singleton Road, Baldwin Pointe, Hopewell Church Road, Toccoa Highway from Rivoli Point to […]

A calendar for the 2020-21 school year will likely come out of tonight’s meeting of the Oconee County trustees.  The trustees have taken the last two weeks to allow for additional comment, after only small numbers of parents responded to earlier surveys.  The main issue is the starting day for schools in 2020 and the state’s requirement that the public […]

We’ve had reports of overflowed rain gauges in various parts of Oconee County on Friday.  Some of the more common readings were six to seven inches.  In Walhalla, the official reading approximated 6″. Weather watcher Barbara Wilson reports to the National Weather Service a measurement of 5.88″, most of it falling within a three-hour period.

South Carolina DHEC wants a judge to enforce a civil action against the operator of an Oconee County re-cycling facility. A DHEC lawyer filed a complaint in the Common Pleas Court last week alleging Jake Marcengill’s Spring Valley Recycling on the Carradine Road has failed to fully obey an order last year to “remove and dispose of all waste tires […]

The Foothills Chapter of the Sierra Club will offer an information meeting next month on regulated pipeline projects in the Southeast. Shelley Robbins, representing Upstate Forever, will address the Dominion Energy 55-mile pipeline project in the Upstate. The meeting will take place at 7 o’clock Tuesday night, May 7 in the OLLI Building, Thomas Green Boulevard, at Clemson. The public […]

A one-week term of General Sessions Court opens this morning at the Oconee Courthouse, with Judge Cordell Maddox of Anderson holding the gavel. Five of six cases on this week’s trial docket allege violations of drug laws.

Crews from the Walhalla Public Works face a cleanup day, in the aftermath of Friday’s storms. At least two trees nearly split in half on the grounds at Kaufman Square, the community depot. The stretch of S. College Street leading out from downtown is a reminder of how hard a wallop that nature gave the area. Trees fells and homeowners […]

The following news release was issued last night by the city of Westminster: “ This afternoon (Saturday April 20th) at approximately 4 PM earthen fill on Hwy 123./ Toccoa Hwy. collapsed completely, and disrupted water service west of Singleton Road to the areas served by the City of Westminster. It is estimated about 300 households are served in the area […]

Seneca Light and Water crews continued this afternoon to put the pieces back together along 123 between Seneca and Clemson where a tree fell this morning and took down power lines behind an apartment complex in front of the Forest Hills subdivision.  While repairs were underway, the inside lane of 123 east was closed.  We have an unconfirmed report that […]