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Spartanburg County is considering financial incentives to land a Michelin tire distribution center.  The distribution center is believed to be the one that Oconee County had pursued for more than a year to locate its Golden Corner Commerce Park.  According to the county’s website, Spartanburg County Council is to consider the project during a meeting tonight.  

Ken Sloan says an athletic event, never tried in Oconee County, will take place this weekend.  According to the head of the Mountain Lakes CVB, it’s an event requiring great stamina.  On Sunday, from South Cove Park, participants will swim a distance of two and a half miles.  Then they’ll ride bikes to the Greenville County town of Travelers Rest.

A flier found in one Walhalla restaurant starts out:  “Freedom of choice is here and the time to choose is now.  The Next School @ Eagle Ridge, a free state accredited public school located in Salem, is currently enrolling students in grades 6-12.”  The flier gives information on how to register.

In a special meeting Monday, Seneca City Council will consider changes to its wholesale electric power purchase arrangement with the South Carolina Public Service Authority.  On the agenda is first reading of an amendment to the service and ancillary agreements between the two parties.  The mayor and council are also to consider first readings of new budgets for the 2016-17 […]

Financial matters dot the agenda for this month’s regular meeting of Westminster City Council.  At 6 o’clock Tuesday night at the Depot, the mayor and the council will wade through an agenda that includes one dozen items of new business, including the effort to cut the cost of electric power.  The city leaders on Tuesday also will hear recommendations and […]

After a called meeting yesterday, Westminster named two finalists for city administrator.  They are Rodney Johnson of Florence and Christopher Carter of Georgetown.  Mayor Brian Ramey says Carter and Johnson will get face-to-face interviews to determine who succeeds Jeff Lord, who is resigning to take a job elsewhere.      

The police in Walhalla are being told that a bear and three cubs have been spotted at least twice today on one side of the city and later inside the city.  And Chief Ronald Wilbanks says he has been in touch with the state DNR and told the city should consider trapping the animals.  A source told 101.7/WGOG NEWS the […]

At the Oconee Detention Center, a Westminster woman awaited her bond hearing this morning in a case that alleges financial identity fraud.  The Sheriff’s Office identified Kayla Marlene Hendricks of Sunshine Circle as the woman arrested and charged in an investigation that centered on a complaint involving credit cards with combined balances of thousands of dollars.

Walhalla has plans beyond those which culminated in Streetscape—a re-vitalization project that had been talked about for decades but shelved for one reason or the other.  Mayor Edwards envisions a downtown development corporation to facilitate façade grants for building owners.  And he predicts there will be improvements to the side streets—bounded by North and South Broad streets.   But the plans […]

  Walhalla supporters are wearing bright-colored t-shirts emblazoned by “I Survived Walhalla Streetscape.”  Mayor Danny Edwards says it’s an attempt at humor at the end of the one year project that changed downtown traffic patterns and provided a new look to the core business section of the city.  Edwards was part of the large crowd that stood on Main at […]