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An autopsy showed bruises and abrasions on the body a 37-year old Walhalla area woman. But both the coroner and the sheriff’s office have determined there were no signs of foul play in the death of April Norton Jones. Coroner Karl Addis says the bruises and abrasions were consistent with a fall or multiple falls. Jones’s body was found by […]

Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputies are asking for the public to assist with the location of an individual reported as missing and possibly endangered. On January 18, 2019, Earl Goss, 70, went missing from a boarding home on Glendale Rd. in Anderson. He had been taken to an appointment at a facility on McGee Rd. that morning and when a caretaker […]

A special exception before the Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals had a certain ring to it. The appeals board, in its judiciary role, approved a special exception from Yoder’s to allow a second storage building. Permission was granted in a 5-0 vote. But there were comments by Ryan Honea, a board member from Fair Play, which a business such as […]

Work continues on developing an Oconee County Comprehensive Plan for the years 2020 to 2030. Last night two planning commission members were scheduled to make a presentation to the county library board of trustees. And planner Adam Chapman says the office wants to spread the word to Oconeeans that comment is welcomed on what kind of a county they’d like […]

West Union leaders go to work tonight on the town’s next budget. A budget workshop is planned at 6 o’clock tonight at Town Hall.

After a meeting last night, the Walhalla code administrator says the city planning commission is considering“minor changes” to the city’s rules covering food trucks. The planning commissioners also approved a 120-day extension to the Oconee Station food truck which sets up on Main Street downtown.

The police in Seneca say they traced a burglary suspect to his home on Karen Drive and captured him after he temporarily eluded officers by running into the woods near his home. The police say they arrested Justin Grey Smith Saturday afternoon on charges of burglary and theft in an incident at a home on WN 1st Street last October. […]

Investigators report a body found near Walhalla. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says the deceased is a female found dead during the night at an address on the Rock Crusher Road. An autopsy is being ordered, but there are no indications, according to Crenshaw, of the death being a homicide.

Everyone is invited to a drop-in next month to celebrate 50 years for the Hamilton Career Center in the Bountyland Community. The career center was built in 1968 and opened as the Oconee Vocational Center. In a half century, students on their way to the local workforce have studied and trained there to prepare for the local workforce. The Hamilton […]

Library board chairmans and library system directors have come and gone in Oconee County without achieving a library to replace Seneca’s more than 50-year old building. Maybe that’ll change under a new echelon of the library leaders. The Oconee library board and its new members got to know each other last night in Seneca, and it was a chance for […]