Category: News

A logging accident near Walhalla has hospitalized one man.  The fire department reports a tree fell on the man late yesterday afternoon on Earlestead Drive.  A medic helicopter flew the injured logger to Greenville Memorial Hospital, from a landing spot nearby on Razorback Lane at the Walhalla Middle School.  No immediate word on his identity or his condition.

The police in Seneca charged a 40-year old man with car theft and other offenses in the investigation of an incident that started at the Shaver Recreation Complex and led to the discovery of the stolen car in a church parking lot.  Authorities filed charges of financial transaction card fraud, financial transaction card theft, and grand larceny against Hickory, North […]

The busy Oconee T-intersection of 123 and the Wells Highway near Blue Ridge Orthopedics re-opened to all traffic last evening—after several hours of cleanup and the removal of two wrecked tractor-trailer trucks.  The accident occurred yesterday morning during a heavy fog that enveloped parts of Oconee County near Lake Hartwell.  What happened was of no surprise to the nearby Lee […]

A $44 million dollar interchange is going to be built near Charleston, a project that the state’s transportation chief says is an example of how the public transportation system supports economic development.  The DOT awarded Conti Enterprises the contract to build the new interchange on I-26 that will provide  interstate access for the new $500 million Volvo plant under construction […]

A former manager of Oconee’s Salem branch library now serves as system director of the Kemper-Newton Regional Library in rural Mississippi.  Meredith Wickham started her career in public libraries as a volunteer at the Seneca branch library.  In 2013, she moved with her husband who took a teaching position at Mississippi State University.  Meredith Wickham is active in the Association […]

After efforts to encourage the now-infamous “Upstate S.C. elk” to return to its home herd in North Carolina proved unsuccessful, the animal has been relocated to the S.C Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism’s Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, where it will become a part of the “Animal Forest” exhibit there. However, it will be some time before visitors […]

Walhalla City Council took a first step to offer tax incentives to business that, in turn, would take a chance on Walhalla.  Councilman Tjay Bagwell said an ordinance offering incentives passed on first reading during council’s regular December meeting.  The incentives, in the form of rebates paid back to the businesses, would be controlled by the city’s elected leaders.  Meaning, […]

A state trooper says thru traffic on 123 between Seneca and Clemson likely will have to be diverted until around the noon hour, as responders work to clear the accident scene involving two large trucks.  Trooper Joe Hovis said no one was hurt in this morning’s 9 o’clock hour accident that apparently occurred in heavy fog at 123 and the […]

An accident that is believed to have involved two trucks has blocked traffic on busy 123 this morning between Seneca and Clemson.  Public safety responders are diverting traffic to back roads to avoid U-S 123 in the vicinity of Blue Ridge Orthopedics and the Wells Highway.  The accident was reported by state troopers around 9:30 and as late as the […]

Jeff Duncan, the Third District South Carolina U-S representative, calls President Obama’s ban against oil leases in both the Arctic and the Atlantic “a vain attempt to salvage a personal legacy for himself.”  And Duncan, Laurens Republican, vows he’ll work with the Trump administration to reverse the ban which Duncan believes would throttle economic and energy security.  Duncan also lambasted […]