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In November General Election voting, South Carolinians will choose a state superintendent of education between Republican incumbent Molly Spearman and Democrat Israel Romero. The winner will serve until the year 2023. Depending on how South Carolinians vote elsewhere on the November ballot, this could be the last time the people elect the superintendent. The one statewide constitutional question before the […]

“Lake Keowee is in the highest water classification (i.e. ‘excellent’) under South Carolina DHEC’s classification system.” That’s a finding in the order from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission  approving Duke Energy’s request to allow Walhalla to build and operate a raw water intake at the lake. That’s important to all Walhalla water customers, as once the eventual switch is made […]

On the witness stand, tears temporarily interrupted a Seneca woman’s testimony, but she then pointed to the defendant and declared that he was the one who pulled a gun on her at and forced his way into her home. The trial of Greenville resident William Junior Clark on charges of kidnapping and burglary first degree opened today in the Oconee […]

The big vote that the Walhalla mayor has said is approaching will come tonight, according to the agenda for the city council. The city has scheduled final reading and public review of an ordinance that will commit Walhalla to a bond issue to create up to $25 million in revenues that the city will face when it installs a raw […]

A former Tennessee woman was sentenced yesterday by an Oconee judge to three years in prison to account for the actions she took last winter on the 123 By-Pass that sent people scattering from the gas pumps at a convenience store. Latoya Denise Emry pleaded guilty to assault and battery first degree. The police charged Emry with firing a gun […]

Unless plans are re-worked, Seneca officials won’t make a zoning change that would allow as many as 76 units of senior housing near the 123 By-Pass. The developers sought the zoning change for 4.76 acres at Short Street and Mountain View Drive. The planning commissioners were told last night of plans for a three-story complex which only added to the […]

To the consternation of the meeting room audience, Seneca Planning Commission voted last night in favor of an amended short-term rental policy. The 4-1 vote, however, amounts to a recommendation only, meaning that the final say at the city level belongs to the city council during its November and December meeting dates. The planning commissioners changed the ordinance to set […]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is announcing approval of a request to allow Walhalla to build and operate a raw water intake facility within the Keowee-Toxaway Hydro-electric Project. The proposed facility is designed to with withdraw a maximum rate of 6.75 million gallons a day from Lake Keowee and consist of a 130-foot, dual 20-inch diameter raw water intake line […]

The continuing investigation of the September double homicide in Utica has netted Oconee Sheriff’s Office three more arrests. Three other arrests took place earlier. Today the Sheriff’s Office reported the arrests of Jeremy Alexander Trotter and Eliyah Kiana Rogers of Harry’s Drive, Westminster on murder charges. A third arrest today is that of 20-year old Gregory James Trotter Jr. of […]

Attacks by an angry husband on his wife and on a second man are sending the husband to prison—the result of guilty pleas this afternoon in the Oconee General Sessions Court. Jonathan William Duncan pleaded guilty to attempted murder, domestic violence second offense, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime. Assistant Solicitor Beth Blundy said Duncan “flipped” the […]