Category: News

An amendment to an appropriations bill by Rep. Jeff Duncan that would have protected residents along two South Carolina lakes from steep fee increases from the Army Corps of Engineers failed, but South Carolina’s 3rd District Republican says he will not be silenced on an issue affecting residents of both lakes Hartwell and Thurmond. Starting January 1, lake residents face […]

A lawsuit in the Oconee Common Pleas Court claims that child protection services, medical providers, and law enforcement authorities were negligent in not taking steps that could have prevented the then boyfriend of the mother from abusing a second child in the family. The 23-page lawsuit, filed yesterday by two Rock Hill attorneys for plaintiffs Ravyn Hammond and Cody Hess […]

The move by South Carolina to a new voting system, in the view of the League of Women Voters, was a step to assure every vote cast is the vote that the voter actually intended, but it doesn’t go far enough. “We definitely wanted paper ballots. We’re not happy with this particular system that they have selected…,” according to Eleanor […]

Final laboratory approval for Pioneer Rural Water’s new treatment plant is expected Thursday, June 20, and the Pioneer general manager expects the plant to be put into operation the following week. Terry Pruitt, the Pioneer manager, says during the testing period the treatment facility off highway 59 has been producing 1.5 million gallons a day.

Two men being held in a Spartanburg jail are being linked to a break-in last month at an Oconee County convenience store. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Donald Lynn Fleming and Kaleb William Fleming are charged with burglary second degree, possession of burglary tools, wearing a mask, and malicious injury to property. The Sheriff’s Office believes the Flemings are […]

In recent weeks, according to the Westminster police chief, his city’s problems with juvenile delinquency have lessened. Still the curfew that Chief Rory Jones requested became law last night, on a unanimous vote by the city council. Jones has complained that a group of teenagers have roamed the city streets causing trouble and suggested that their behavior resembled gang wannabees. […]

Members of Seneca’s Facilities Corporation are balking at a proposal to place an overhead transmission line at the entrance to property which both the city and the county market for industrial development. On behalf of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, Central Electric has asked for an easement in the vicinity of Shiloh Road and the properties that the city and […]

Westminster has a new budget for the next 12 months, and it’s one city leaders hope will start to pull the city from its financial difficulties. The mayor and the council last night faced a standing room audience, many of whom were rate payers who blistered the elected leaders about projected water rate increases that could total about 50%. Mayor […]

An early morning house fire in Westminster.  No one has been hurt, according to report.  Fire fighters were called to the home fire on N. Pew Street at 1:40 this morning.  They were there for about two hours.  A noon hour car accident on highway 28 near Halfway Branch injured two people who were sent to the Oconee hospital.  Both […]

A report of a suspicious person operating a child’s vehicle in Walhalla led the police yesterday to issue a citation for violating the city’s public drunkenness ordinance. The police identified a 25-year old woman as the one cited for drunkeness while operating her child’s power wheel truck. The police responded to the call of a suspicious person on N. Church […]