Category: News

In the opinion of a city councilman, a major Walhalla thoroughfare is a mess and begs for action. City councilman Josh Roberts last night brought up the condition of a section of E-S Broad Street, bumpy in sections. Since the advent of Streetscape, at times, Main Street traffic backs up, frustrating motorists who say they’ve taken to Broad Street travel […]

In its quest to generate the funds to pull off a multi-million dollar water plant, Walhalla has been assigned an A-1 credit rating. The announcement was made during a City Hall meeting last night by Brent Taylor, city administrator. That rating should put Walhalla into favorable position to obtain the best possible interest rate to re-pay the bonds that will […]

Paul Harris, interim Walhalla police chief, has been identified as one of the six applicants for the permanent position who is being granted an interview. Harris’s interview and those of five others are scheduled to take place between November 19 and December 2. The announcement of those interviews was made last night during the committees’ meeting of the Walhalla city […]

As ABC News reports, it’s a mixed bag for the major political parties in the mid-term elections. The House swings to the Democrats; the Senate remains under Republican control. Oconee County kept to its Republican traditions by choosing the GOP candidate in each contest in which there was Democratic opposition. The highly-followed run for the District Two seat in the […]

With all 36 precincts reporting, here are the unofficial results in key local races – Bill Sandifer for SC House, Jerry Lee for School Board District 1, Sloan for School Board District 3 and Elliott for County Council.

An Oconee jury today found a Walhalla man guilty on both charges—trafficking meth and possession of a controlled substance. Johnny Matthew Robinson was arrested by the Walhalla police after he was found at 3 o’clock in the morning on November 9, 2014 with a pickup truck in the drive-thru of a Walhalla fast food restaurant. Judge McIntosh’s sentence sends 29-year […]

The Pioneer Rural Water treatment plant has reached the 80% completion stage, and the manager quotes the engineering consultants projecting a December 27 completion date. Pioneer manager Terry Pruitt told his board of directors this afternoon so far the contractor has reached the 673rd day of the 705 contract days. Pioneer board members took time out today to marvel at […]

Seneca, SC — Della Ball, 89, of 1103 Briarwood Drive, Seneca, passed away Monday, November 5, 2018, at her home. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 PM, Thursday, November 8, 2018, at Davenport Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Oconee Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 12:00-1:00 PM, Thursday, prior to the service, at Davenport […]

A Kentucky man began serving a sentence of a little more than two years in prison after he entered a guilty plea yesterday in the Oconee General Sessions Court. The sentence handed down to Daniel William McElreath sent him to prison for 25 months after the court accepted his plea to the charge of criminal sexual conduct with a minor […]

In spite of rain falling—and some wind earlier today at Seneca—voter turnout is “steady, (and) heavy” across the Oconee County voting landscape. Something in excess of 4,000 votes have already been recorded. The deadline for those absentee ballots was 5 pm yesterday. Joy Scharich, elections director, says the Oconee absentee vote will be tabulated–and perhaps announced first—once the rest of […]