Category: News

The police chief believes a flashing caution light could help reduce traffic difficulties at an accident-prone section of the 123 Seneca By-Pass. A multi-car accident that temporarily trapped one occupant this week in front of Wendy’s Restaurant has left Chief John Covington and others in search of a solution. Covington won’t say the four-lane By-Pass in front of Wendy’s is […]

Portions of Table Rock State Park in Pickens County closed for most of the day yesterday, as fire crews conducted a controlled burn of about 50 acres. The East Gate entrance, Lakeside Trail and east side of the park, which had been off-limits, will be open today during normal park hours. The primary objectives of the burn were to improve […]

Powerball® ticket sold in Anderson for last night’s drawing is worth $50,000. The ticket was purchased at Expressway #25 at 1019 E. Greenville St. Powerball® – Wednesday, March 6–6, 10, 21, 35 and 46 Powerball®: 23. The Education Lottery Commission urges players to check their tickets. More than 14,600 players in South Carolina hold tickets for prizes from $4 up […]

Plumes of smoke can be seen a couple miles south of Walhalla–a sign that the Forest Service prescribed burn at Buzzard’s Mountain is well underway.  And, as forecast, today’s calm winds are drifting the smoke in a northeasterly direction toward the Salem area.

The investigation of a home burglary in late January has led to the arrest of a 26-year old woman on multiple charges. Police records show Christiana Eleise King was charged with burglary first degree during the night of January 28 at a home on Skyland Drive. Warrants also show that King was charged in three incidents of financial card transaction […]

Clemson University Facilities and private pest-control experts are working to make sure the bats that caused the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts to cancel performances will go away and stay away. The maintenance staff has installed an “excluder” – a device that allows bats to leave a building but not return – at a small gap in an outside […]

A widespread search for the next Oconee County administrator has been put aside, as the county fathers apparently are now looking to promote from within. The deal to hire Amanda Brock, the interim administrator, for the permanent position could be worked out tomorrow morning in a special county council meeting. The council is scheduled to go behind closed doors at […]

For years, there have been no sounds of a bat hitting a ball or the roar of a crowd on a Walhalla field that held a place in the hearts of those who worshipped the national pastime. That could change if the city’s plans for the Chicopee Baseball Field come through. Brent Taylor, city administrator, says, “Our plans are to […]

Crews from the U-S Forest Service are engaged for a second day in a prescribed burn. This one is to start at 11 this morning and consume 545 acres on Buzzard Roost Mountain, for the purpose of fuel reduction and wildlife habitats. The forecast calls for the smoke to drift in the direction of Salem, a distance of 12 miles. […]

A judge’s order has returned a civil dispute over a rafter’s death in the Chattooga River to the docket of the Oconee Common Pleas Court. It’s a new turn in a case that was first filed three years ago, three years after the death of Tom Hill, 51 years old. Judge Scott Sprouse of Walhalla acted this week on a […]