Category: News

Walhalla representatives are proposing a permanent fix to an intersection, prone to flood any time it rains hard. And when the rains fall at S. College and ES Broad streets, city workers often are forced to close the intersection and re-route traffic. City Administrator Brent Taylor and outside engineer Corbin Jenkins appeared before the county’s state “C” Fund Committee in […]

A developer has interest to acquire Oconee’s Golden Corner Commerce Park, which remains empty near the county’s southern end. Janet Hartman, interim executive director of the Economic Alliance, confirms what she says are “strong conversations” with a developer who wants to buy the entire park, 322 acres off highway 59. Hartman says she’s not at liberty to say the purpose […]

Chief Sean Brinson of the Walhalla Police Department is hoping to meet as many members of the public that the city department serves during tomorrow night’s community meeting.  The event takes place at 6 o’clock in Durham Hall on Main Street.  Light refreshments and food will be provided, as Brinson shares his plans for better communications and relations with the […]

A vote by the Westminster City Council will allow for a second Dollar General store in the city. But, in the opinion of one neighbor, a second Dollar General within a mile and a half of another is one too many. The council last night approved a planning commission recommendation to change the zoning at Hope Street and U-S 76 […]

Westminster leaders gave first reading to a new budget for the city’s government year that starts July 1. And Mayor Brian Ramey last night invited all who have questions or comments about what goes into that budget to take part in a public hearing planned for June 11. There’s special interest this year in the extent to which the city […]

At the request of the police chief, Westminster has taken a preliminary step to amend a city law and apply a curfew to teenagers. The city council gave first reading an ordinance amendment that Chief Rory Jones requested to help quell a group of teenagers who start fights, break windows, slash tires and otherwise interrupt the peace and quiet of […]

That smile you see on the faces of those who drive the roads of an Oconee County detour reflects the quality of an impromptu repair job made further necessary by the weight the detour traffic placed on two roads already in poor shape. But that’s now in the past, as a road paver has applied new asphalt covering to Dixon […]

Turns out Oconee’s top two school personnel did not have to be present for this afternoon’s state board meeting after all. Approval was announced by Del-Gratia Jones, chairwoman of the state board of education, to allow Oconee public schools to start the 2020-21 year one week ahead of the requirement that schools may not start before the third Monday in […]

The volunteer staff at Dot’s Kitchen in Westminster can always use a helping hand.  In fact, there’s an opening on the Tuesday crew.  If you would be interested in joining the crew, the requirement is one Tuesday a month.  If interested, telephone Joey Roeder at 647-5509.

In her remarks to Tri-County Technical College’s Class of 2019, State President, AT&T South Carolina Jane Sosebee asked the graduates to remember three things from her address: live in the present, remember the past with gratitude and look to the future with confidence. “This time… this place…these people… this evening is special. Look around you… at your fellow graduates. Some […]