Category: News

A deed filed yesterday with Oconee Registry of Deeds shows the sale of property in the vicinity of the Food Lion shopping center, a part of Oconee that has begun to see increased commercial development. According to the transaction, worth $275 thousand, Heritage 4 LLC sold 1.38 acres to Upstate Holistic LLC.

A New Year’s Day tradition in Oconee County is a dip into the chilly waters of Lake Jocassee, a fundraiser for improvements at Devil’s Fork Park.  The traditional 5K run will take place on Monday, and so will the annual loon lunge will take place for those braves enough to charge into the water and then exit quickly.  As we […]

A computer system program error affected the South Carolina Education Lottery on Christmas Day.  Impacted were the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play tickets, a $1 terminal-generated instant game.  From 5:51 pm to 7:53 pm, the same play symbol was repeated in the available play areas on tickets that would result in a top prize of $500 dollars.  No more than five identical […]

Offices at Seneca City Hall and the Lowery Building will observe New Year’s Day on Monday as a holiday.  For customer convenience, the Light and Water night deposit remains open 24 hours.  In an emergency, call 885-2723 for help.

Walhalla has announced that its garbage pickup schedule will reflect the New Year’s Day holiday on Monday.  All trash scheduled for January 1 and 2 pickups will be collected on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 2 and 3.  Other routes remain on schedule.

Changes in permit procedures take effect with the start of 2018 in Clemson.  The city has announced a one-permit system, applications for which can be found on the city website.  In a one-permit system, sub contractors are to work under the general contractor or residential builder which means that a sub contractor list will be required before inspections are scheduled.

The defense for a Walhalla man charged with multiple child sex offenses will move for a lower bond during a proceeding next week in the Oconee General Sessions Court. Facing 24 charges of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree, the defense will ask Judge Cordell Maddox to lower Brian Douglas Feole’s bond from $240 thousand dollars. The proceeding is […]

Fire damaged a garage last night near Westminster, at 150 Miller Farm Road.  Rural Fire dispatch reports fire fighters were able to confine the fire to the garage before it could spread to the home.  No one was hurt, but the Red Cross responded with help for one child and four adults.  The fire call came shortly before 7 o’clock; […]

A car and a pickup truck have crashed in front of Wendy’s Restaurant on Seneca’s 123 By-Pass.  There may be as many as two people hurt, according to a report we have from the accident scene.

For the most part, there are no free lunches any more, except at places such as Dot’s Kitchen in Westminster.  Today was a regular day for the volunteers who run the soup kitchen to fill the plates of the crowd that frequents the soup kitchen in the basement of the American Legion building on Lucky Street.  No one is turned […]