Category: News

With community donations down, a follow-up solicitation letter has been mailed to those who rely on the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department for protection. Corinth-Shiloh, a long-standing member of Oconee County’s volunteer fire protection system, faces annual, long-term payments to retire the debt accrued from the renovation of its station on the Old Clemson-Seneca Highway. The latest solicitation letter includes blunt language, […]

The Salvation Army’s Red Kettle campaign will kick off for the holiday season during a five-hour event tomorrow at the Seneca Belk store. Belk’s is one of several Oconee County stores where the Salvation Army plans to deploy bell ringers to collect money for local community needs including utilities, food, clothing, and Christmas assistance. Tomorrow’s kick off will take place […]

Lake Keowee Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram and Lake Keowee Ford Operating Partner and General Manager Mark Williams presented a $27,800 check yesterday to the Oconee Memorial Hospital (OMH) Foundation for the Breast Care Center. The Breast Care Center is close to Williams’s heart as both his mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. JJ Thomas, Lead Imaging Technologist for the […]

There’s an improving weather forecast for a pair of outdoor events tomorrow in the town of Salem. Parts of Main Street will close to allow for a late afternoon car show and a night time street dance. Salem’s Marti Jennings says this last car show of the year will start at 4 o’clock and will be followed by a soup […]

Fire late last night ravaged a Jeep Cherokee which pulled to the side of a rural road near Walhalla. The driver, noticing something wrong, stopped his car on the Old Georgia Road near SC 183/the Westminster Highway. Walhalla Fire Department responded but could not save the car from total destruction. No one was hurt.

The Museum of the Cherokee in Walhalla will show off its new annex during a 10 o’clock ceremony tomorrow morning in Walhalla. Luther Lyle, museum curator, invites everyone to learn more about area history of the Cherokee Indians and to see the expanded exhibit of artifacts that are contained in the museum’s new annex on Short Street.

Oconee County turns its attention this month to the future of local agriculture with its second Farmer and Rancher Listening Session. The county’s Agricultural Advisory Board invites all farmers and ranchers to come to the County Council Chambers in Walhalla at 6:30 Thursday night, November 15 to be heard on such issues as how they see agriculture growing in the […]

Local and area agriculture interests are making preparations for a visit today by Sonny Perdue, the former Georgia governor who now serves as U-S Secretary of Agriculture in the administration of President Donald Trump. At Clemson’s Hendrix Student Center, Perdue will meet with students and take questions from farmers, agency heads, and other key members of the South Carolina agriculture […]

To accommodate Veterans’ Day on Monday, Walhalla has changed its trash pickup schedule. Those who normally see their trash collected on Monday are requested instead to have their roll carts out by 7 o’clock Tuesday morning for pickup either Tuesday or Wednesday. Russ Price, public works director, says all other routes will remain on regular schedule.

“I’m not going grant him bond.” That was the quick statement by a judge in Walhalla this afternoon when he heard some of the accusations against a young Seneca area man charged with the murders of two men in the Utica Community near Seneca. Defendant Steven Lee Reynolds, with attorney Suzanne Earle by his side, appeared before Circuit Judge Lawton […]