Category: News

High winds and low humidity are combining to make conditions right for fire, as evidenced by the calls run yesterday by the fire departments in Walhalla, Westminster, and West Union. Chief Brandon Burton of the Walhalla Fire Department says even though there is no ban against outside burning, the wind and the humidity make that practice dangerous. Burton says, “Even […]

A judge’s decision in Anderson to send the charges against the accused Townville school shooter to adult court is now both formalized and finalized. The prosecutor’s office, the office of the 10th Circuit Solicitor, announced that Family Court Judge Edgar Long’s decision in February to try defendant Jesse Osborne in the General Sessions Court was filed in the office of […]

Edda Cammick, chairwoman of Oconee County Council, takes issue this morning with a county resident’s Facebook post claiming that, in the last two years, county government lost $1.5 million. “That is simply not true,” says Cammick, who chairs the county’s budget and finance committee. In a statement, Cammick said, “In FY 2016, $500,000 that was budgeted was NOT spent and […]

A plea of guilty to a reduced charge ended the case today of a Walhalla homicide more than three years ago. Andy Steve Cobb was originally charged with accessory after the fact, but this afternoon was allowed to plead guilty to common law obstruction of justice. Cobb was 18 years old when Jeremy Lee Little was stabbed to death with […]

Oconee County Sesquicentennial banners are going up on utility poles on Walhalla’s Main Street. The county was formed 150 years ago, not long after the Civil War.

Sheriff Mike Crenshaw sat in the audience at Monday’s meeting of Oconee school trustees and heard strong comment from members of the public that they prefer spending to assign more school resource officers instead of implementing a separate program, in which certain volunteer school workers would be trained to handle firearms. And Edda Cammick, council chairwoman, talked during last night’s […]

Pay raises as high as three percent for Oconee County government employees are included in the new budget proposed by Scott Moulder, the county administrator. Moulder suggests the county award raises of 1, 2, and 3% for employees based on the salaries they make. Three percent would go the employees who make the least; a 1% increase for those employees […]

There’s an explanation this morning why there’s a crane high above a downtown Walhalla building. Brent Taylor, the city administrator, says the owner of Hector’s Restaurant on Main Street is having some roof and beam work done.

Walhalla will add a new component to its police department, a dog that can be used for drug-sniffing. Lt. Sean Brinson announced at last night’s city council meeting that the department’s fundraising effort raised $59 thousand and the department will now be able to establish a K-9 unit.

Walhalla will advertise for a new chief of police. Following a short closed-door meeting last night, the city council appointed Capt. Paul Harris as interim, in place of Ronald Wilbanks, who resigned suddenly yesterday.