Category: News

It’s time for Oconee school trustees to have a look again at the contract of their superintendent.  The annual evaluation and the contract of Dr. Michael Thorsland are matters reserved for the executive session part of Monday’s board meeting in Walhalla.  As the result of last year’s evaluation, Thorsland’s salary was set at $141,831 dollars and one year was added […]

The remains of a decomposed male found yesterday in a wooded area are believed to be those of missing Pickens County resident Gabriel Bradley Hein.  In the search, Pickens sheriff’s officers used cadaver dogs in finding the remains in a remote, wooded area about one-half mile from the Sunset Community home of the 28-year old Hein.  He was last seen […]

City of Seneca will spray to control mosquitoes tonight within the corporate limits.  The spraying gets underway 8:30.  There will be no spraying if it rains.

An officer in Dixie Youth Baseball is coming to Clemson to serve as the city’s new director of parks and recreation.  James “Jay” Bennett III, current director of recreation and leisure services in Cheraw, will re-locate to Clemson and start work July 24.  To be scheduled is a drop-in reception to allow Clemson residents to become familiar with Bennett.  Since […]

  In the changing landscape of Clemson University, a former jewel of South Carolina hotels—the Clemson House—will soon be a goner.  And the debris from the demolition of the Clemson House is headed to an Oconee County landfill.  Scott Moulder, county administrator, made the announcement during last night’s council meeting as the council approached the purchase of a used portable […]

  Edda Cammick, chairwoman of Oconee County Council, commended the county’s first term auditor, Christy Hubbard, last night for a technology achievement.  For the first time, the auditor’s office can now process vehicle registrations online.  “I’ve been whining about that for a long time and she (Hubbard) came thru for me,” Cammick said during last night’s council meeting.  

A Walhalla water rate increase during the next 12 months appears out of the question.  Councilman T-J Bagwell says his attempt to enact an increase has been rejected.  There was discussion of the next city budgets during last night’s City Hall meeting.  According to Bagwell, it appears the annual transfer from the water department to general government will drop to […]

  Road work is set to start tomorrow on two sections of SC 11 north of Walhalla.  The work on 11 from Fowler Road to Austin Edwards Road and from Falcons Lair Road to Picket Post Road will apparently take most of the summer, with the finish date pegged September 1.  The contractor, King Asphalt of Liberty, says there are […]

    A citation issued last week to an Oconee County driver is a reminder that law enforcement is taking child passenger restraint protections seriously.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says the person charged with reckless driving was a case in which a child was riding on the floorboard of the cab of the pickup and two juveniles were in the bed […]

Deputy sheriffs will have a greater presence in an area in far northwest Oconee County with the opening Sunday of a new Sheriff’s Office substation.  An open house will mark the event from 2 to 5 pm.  The substation is next door to the Long Creek General Store on Highway 76.  The project squares with the mission statement of Sheriff […]