Category: News

Seneca’s elected leaders are primed to act tomorrow night on new city budgets.  Second and final reading of the budgets is planned at City Hall Hall.  A public hearing on the municipal budget is to get underway at 6 o’clock.

  A Latin and English teacher at Walhalla High, Laura Black, recently was inducted into the Newberry Hall of Master Teachers. The Hall of Master Teachers recognizes alumni for exemplary dedication and service to the profession. Educators are nominated and then scored on the basis of their professional activities, educational leadership, philosophy, and influence on students and colleagues. Black has […]

On behalf of the Muslin Student Association at Furman University, the university released this statement:  “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the monstrous attack on the Orlando nightclub that occurred early Sunday morning. We pray for the victims, the deceased and the injured, and we pray for their families.  We ask that God will give them much strength and […]

The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution has donated $10 thousand to the Clemson University Foundation to restore the front porch at the historical Hopewell Plantation.  The plantation, at Cherry Farm, is the 18th century home of Gen. Andrew Pickens and includes some of the land Pickens received for his service as a brigadier general in the American Revolution. […]

Walhalla customers in the vicinity of Coffee Road temporarily lost service last night when the utilities superintendent said a small crack developed in a pipe.  “Nothing major,” said Scott Parris, the utilities superintendent.  And there was no need to declare a boil water advisory for affected customers.

The trail to renovate an old government building into a Walhalla hotel will take the developers next month to Columbia.  Mayor Danny Edwards says developer Tom Markovich and his partner have a date in July with the commission that governs the state Archives and History Department.  The mayor told a meeting of the Destination Oconee committee on Friday a place […]

What were called two high risk search warrants were served Friday  in the continued effort by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office  to combat the supply and demand of illegal narcotics.   Captain Ken Washington said county and city officers headed to 117 Clear Cut Drive in Salem and 11 Humbert Street on the Utica Mill Hill near Seneca.  Arrested at Salem were […]

The AP quotes an FBI agent as saying authorities had suggestions that the killer in Orlando had leanings toward radical Islamic terrorism.  Third District Congressman Jeff Duncan says, “This is an attack on every American by radical Islam, and we have no choice but to respond.” In a statement, Republican Duncan said he’s fearful what happened at the night club […]

  Chances are when you arrive at the polls tomorrow you’ll see a political candidate.  May a candidate appear at the polls and talk to the voters?  The answer is yes, but there are restrictions.  Here are the rules as provided by the state election office:  “Inside the polling place:  No campaigning is allowed.  Candidates may be inside the polling […]

  Temperatures of near 100 degrees failed to keep Oconee Democrats from their annual fundraiser.  The South Cove Park picnic last evening served as a momentum builder for the party’s eventual ticket in November.  The crowd built slowly for a dinner and entertainment beneath the park pavilion and for the evening’s speakers:  State Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter of Orangeburg and Hosea […]