Category: News

Months have passed since the board for an Oconee County YMCA received preliminary approval from the USDA for a construction loan.  In the interim, “Y” leaders have fielded additional questions about the project to build the facility on the grounds of Oconee campus of the Greenville Health System.  Christle Ross, “Y” CEO, said today:  “We have answered extra questions and […]

Season norms can be found in this morning’s report from Barbara Wilson, the official U-S Weather Observer in Walhalla.  On yesterday Wilson recorded the first frost of the season.  Yesterday’s high temperature was 65 degrees.  The 24-hour period low temperature was 39 degrees.  No rain recorded.

The members of the Seneca Lions Club are ready tonight to stage their annual chicken barbecue dinner.  The event raises money for the Lions sight and hearing projects.  From 4:30 TO 7:30 you can eat in/or carry out a plate at the St. Mark United Methodist Church in Seneca.  Plates cost $10 dollars.

The police in Seneca have arrested and charged a 34-year old man with stealing a car.  A 2013 BMW was taken during the early morning of August 11 outside a Ramcat Alley nightspot.  According to law enforcement records, the man arrested–Matthew James Gilbert–lives in an apartment a few blocks away.

Twenty-two year state representative Bill Sandifer of Seneca says he’s preparing for next year’s election cycle as if he’ll face opposition.  And, if opposition develops, it may come in the form of a past political adversary–Dan Alexander, the mayor of Seneca.  But, interviewed today at 101.7/WGOG, Sandifer showed little concern whether he’ll attract any opposition.  He says he prepares his […]

A Walhalla jury found a mobile home owner guilty of the city code violation of failure to remove a mobile home.  The mobile home in question is located in a trailer park on Brandi Lane near S. Cedar Street.  Court officers say the mobile home had been condemned and a demolition order had been issued.  The jury found Duke Dardouk […]

Before he entered national politics, Oconee’s Lindsey Graham worked as a lawyer.  Today the Republican U-S senator finds himself in a courtroom in Newark, New Jersey as a trial witness.  A statement released by Graham’s Washington office says Graham will testify as a character witness for the New Jersey U-S Senator Bob Menendez, on trial on federal corruption charges.  The […]

A student at Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary School was grand prize winner in the annual Bullying Post Contest, sponsored by the group “A Call to Action Oconee.”  The poster, by Carrie Shields, was the overall winner.  The theme this year was “The End of Bullying Begins with Me.”

Mike Crenshaw, Oconee Sheriff, is hopeful of getting some answers Monday.  Specifically, why fire damaged part of the old county jail September 23.  A meeting that morning will bring together those involved in the investigation, specifically representatives of the county’s insurer.  A separate fire protection issue in the building has delayed Christ Central Ministries’ start of an re-habilitation program to […]

Seven Walhalla streets are to be re-surfaced using “C” funds from the state Department of Transportation.  Brent Taylor, city administrator, left a recent meeting of the county “C” Funds Committee with approval of an allocation of $285 thousand, to re-cover the following seven streets:  Lucas, Jaynes, Verner, E. Wesley, Gerber, Parker, and part of S. Spring, from Lucas to Jaynes.  […]