Salem business to be transacted tonight
The regular September meeting of the Salem Town Council takes place at 6 this evening at Town Hall. The public is invited.
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The regular September meeting of the Salem Town Council takes place at 6 this evening at Town Hall. The public is invited.
Read moreAn event Friday attracted around 80 people for a celebration of Oconee County Cherokee Indian heritage. The event was held at the Oconee State Park, not far from a second state park called Oconee Station State Historic Site. That second park lies adjacent to newly-acquired property that was the location of Oconee Town Site which Luther Lyle of the Museum of […]
Read moreFaith by Hope Ministry at Walhalla has partnered with a Beaumont, Texas church to collect items and transport by truck to Texas. A tractor-trailer parked at the West Union Ingle’s is stationed to collect food, water, toiletries, baby supplies, insect repellent, and pet food until Thursday night. All monetary donations will be used for truck fuel.
Read moreA relief effort, organized by West Union Fire Department, will leave from the fire station around noon today, bound with donated items for those displaced by Hurricane Harvey. There’s still time to drop off items. By late yesterday morning, Mayor Linda Oliver said bottled water, diapers, cleaning supplies, paper products, and clothes were among the items that had been donated […]
Read moreThe coroner says a body found yesterday in the Seneca River arm of Lake Hartwell was that of a Clemson student. Coroner Karl Addis says he was 22 years old from India, a graduate student, who lived in a Clemson apartment near the lake and railroad. According to Addis, it’s presumed the student jumped from the Norfolk Southern trestle that crosses […]
Read moreWalhalla sanitation trucks will not run on Monday, Labor Day 2017. Instead the city will pick up trash Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
Read moreA late morning fire inflicted what the fire chief called significant damage to a rental cabin on Carolina Landing Drive, Fair Play. Chief Larry Wilkerson of the Fair Play Fire Department said fire fighters knocked down the fire in 10-15 minutes time. No one was using the cabin at the time. By late this afternoon, the cause for the fire […]
Read moreOfficials need the public’s help to limit the movement of firewood as a way to help combat the spread of an insect pest that inhabits and destroys native ash trees. The Department of Plant Industry at Clemson University will hold a public hearing regarding an emergency statewide quarantine of wood and wood products affected by the Emerald Ash Borer. That […]
Read moreA close monitoring of the weather has led Clemson officials to call off this evening’s First Friday Parade–a prelude to tomorrow’s football opener. Behind this decision is the likelihood of lightning and heavy rain during parade lineup, 4 to 6 pm.
Read moreAn overturned tractor-trailer truck is causing delays this morning for I-85 traffic headed into South Carolina from Georgia. WLHR Lavonia quoted witnesses saying the mishap occurred near the Hartwell exit. If possible, motorists are requested to avoid that area.
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