Category: News

Walhalla Councilman Tjay Bagwell said last night he has spoken informally with Westminster officials about the possibility of his city buying water from Westminster.  This morning Westminster Mayor Brian Ramey reacted this way:  “We would love to have that opportunity.  It would help Walhalla and Westminster in so many ways.”  One way that it might help is a revenue stream […]

Three people hurt in an accident last night near Walhalla were sent to Greenville.  Their conditions were not immediately known this morning.  Chief Brandon Burton of the Walhalla Fire Department said the accident at 7 o’clock last night involved one car that rolled over on the Coffee Road near Busch Creek Road.

U.S. Senator Tim Scott joined three of his colleagues to introduce the Graduate Student Savings Act of 2017, which would allow funds from a graduate student’s stipend or fellowship to be deposited into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). While fellowship or stipend funding currently is taxed as income by federal and state governments, it does not qualify as “compensation” and […]

$7.2 million dollars.  That’s the amount Walhalla City Council settled on last night to operate the next 12 months of city government.  There’s enough money to award 3% cost of living pay increases to the city employees as well as the creation of two new jobs.  Walhalla will employ a part time events coordinator and allocate a position in streets […]

An Oconee jury returned a guilty verdict yesterday against a man charged with hitting his wife at her Westminster area home.  Jeffrey Leonard Shelton was found guilty of criminal domestic violence second offense and received the maximum sentence of one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.  Shelton did not testify in his defense.  The jury heard Shelton’s estranged wife, […]

A driver who apparently had a medical issue was involved in two accidents late yesterday afternoon on SC 130 in Oconee County.  According to Keowee Fire Department, there were no injuries in the accidents.  One occurred at 130 and Katelynn Lane; the other, near the Oconee Nuclear Plant.  For a time, two-lane 130 was reduced to one lane travel.

Defendant Jeffrey Leonard Shelton exercised his right to not testify in his own defense today in the Oconee General Sessions Court.  He went on trial this morning, charged with criminal domestic violence second offense.  For the prosecution, however, Shelton’s estranged wife, Cher, said her husband struck her on the head.  Mrs. Shelton was cross-examined by defense lawyer David Schumpert, who […]

A Clemson University graduate student helped determine what was causing taste and odor problems with drinking water drawn from Hartwell Lake and is working to address them. Tyler Geer, a wildlife and fisheries biology student who has lived in Clemson all of his life, was part of a team that worked with the Anderson Regional Joint Water System to develop and implement a […]

Indications are the federal agency that investigated the fatal crash of a small plane in Oconee County more than a year and a half ago is about to issue its analysis and probable cause.  The private Piper airplane carried a pilot and three other Notre Dame football fans on their way to a game at Clemson.  The crash occurred October […]

An incident in which shots were fired into a home near Seneca sent the Oconee Sheriff’s Office to an address near the Dr. Mitchell Road east of Seneca. A homeowner on Moores Road reported gunfire, and a deputy sheriff found a bullet hole in the window of the home.  That was in February and was followed by the discovery of […]