New Walhalla budgets ready for public hearing

Walhalla leaders invite comments and questions tomorrow on what it will take to run city government and utilities for the next year.  The annual Walhalla budget hearing takes place at 5:30 tomorrow evening at City Hall.  This year’s budget features a $500 thousand transfer from the water department to help offset general city operations in 2017-18.  

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Court week opens this morning

A week long term of Oconee General Sessions Court opens this morning in Walhalla, with resident circuit judge Scott Sprouse presiding.  The docket contains seven cases for trial.  In first position is South Carolina versus Jeffrey Shelton, charged with criminal domestic violence second offense.  Shelton was arrested in April 2015.

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15-year old drowns in Lake Keowee

A dive team member recovered the body of a Spartanburg County boy 35 to 40 yards from the Lake Keowee shoreline at Fall Creek Landing.  Coroner Karl Addis says the victim of the accidental death was 15-year old Dillon Ray Spears of the Spartanburg County town of Wellford.  According to Addis, Dillon and a friend were believed to have tried […]

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Body of drowning victim recovered

Father’s Day has turned tragic in Oconee County as emergency workers say a swimmer drowned early Sunday. Charlie King with Oconee County Emergency Services says the drowning happened near the Fall Creek Boat Ramp in the Salem area around 9 a.m. Sunday when two people were out for a swim. One of them went underwater and never resurfaced, prompting the other […]

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More options on the table for Westminster

Westminster is still short in trying to eliminate the budget dilemma that it faces July 1 when a new budget year arrives.  Another meeting last night failed to eliminate the projected budget shortfall of $519,950 dollars for 2017-18.  However, Mayor Brian Ramey says during last night’s budget workshop more options were placed on the table.  Apparently one of those options […]

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1880 Walhalla house now a home in Virginia

Oconee takes pride in what came before.  But, for whatever reason, if the county can’t keep an historic structure, it makes sense for someone somewhere else to have it.  That’s the attitude and the strategy that the Oconee Heritage Center took years ago when it helped find new owners for the large Biemann-Hughs house in Walhalla.  Those new owners are […]

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State jobless rate lowest since 2000

All those hiring signs you see apparently are directed at a shrinking market of South Carolinians who want work.  The state today reported the number of unemployed who are looking has dropped to below 100,000 and, for May, the jobless rate fell to 4.1%.  Oconee’s jobless rate was 3.6%.  Its number of unemployed actively seeking work totaled 1,233.  May was […]

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Zoning variance granted on Seneca’s Lee Lane

Builder Flay Dalrymple received the go ahead at Seneca City Hall last night to split a 10,000 square foot lot on Lee Lane near Northside Elementary School into two lots, on which he may build two separate single family houses.  The board of zoning appeals approved a variance.  There are townhomes connected by party walls on Lee Lane, but Dalrymple […]

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Staying prepared at Oconee Memorial

Accreditation surveyors are expected to arrive within the next few months at the Oconee Memorial Hospital.  Hunter Kome, president of the Oconee Medical Campus of GHS, says, “We have our routine accreditation survey coming up sometime between now and November.  It is always unannounced, but has to occur within three years of the previous survey.”  At Oconee Memorial, the focus […]

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