Category: News

All smiles during an occasion last night in West Union.  And someone even baked a cake.  Carol Mendoza is now officially a voting member of the four-member town council.  Having won a special election, Mendoza received the oath of office to start last night’s special meeting.  The swearing-in was followed by an official introduction of the town’s new police chief, […]

No need to rush to get a Real ID, which eventually will be a requirement, if you want to book an air flight.  Fair Play travel agent Gretchen Fuller announces in her Fair Town Times column that the deadline has been pushed back, again—this time to 2025.  And the culprit this time is not COVID.  It’s a backlog at Homeland […]

Charles Mulwee, an Oconee sheriff’s officer, has been named speaker for Thursday’s Seneca Rotary Club meeting.  He’s expected to talk about his non-profit, Community Tree, which he uses to help people in need.

The chairwoman of the 118th Congress’s House and Energy Committee, Rep. Cathy Rodgers, is someone with whom South Carolina’s Jeff Duncan says he looks forward to working with.  Rodgers held her first hearing to the committee chair.  Duncan, Laurens Republican, praised Washington State Republican Rodgers as a “champion of all forms of American energy.”  Duncan chairs the subcommittee on Energy, […]

A 41-year old Clayton, Georgia man, jailed yesterday in Oconee County, faces charges of pointing and presenting firearms at a person and domestic violence high and aggravated nature.  Larry Bruce Wall Jr. is accused in warrants in an incident investigated by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office December 28 at Mountain Rest.  Deputies say they took photographs as evidence and seized a […]

Dari McBride, CEO of the Oconee Chamber of Commerce, calls attention today to a pair of community-oriented events.  Monday, February 6 from 6 to 8 pm, the chamber and others are staging an information session at Walhalla’s Center for the Performing Arts planned to let all who are interested learn more about what’s happening in the city’s downtown business community.  […]

January marks the 60th anniversary of integration at Clemson University.  The School of Architecture announces “Legacy:  Celebrating the Impact of Harvey Gantt”.  His enrollment into the architecture program in 1963 was historic, as he became the first African American student to attend Clemson after the 4th Court of Appeals ordered the university to admit him.  On Gantt’s enrollment day one […]

Duke Energy alleges a Lake Keowee couple have violated the Shoreline Management Plan by pouring concrete at Amethyst Way, a road that bisects a Keowee peninsula.  And, in papers filed with the county Common Pleas Court, Duke wants a concrete pathway removed and land restored adjacent to the boundary of the Keowee-Toxaway project.  Named in the declaratory judgment proceeding are […]

Two cars collided at a stop Walhalla intersection.  Minor injuries reported between 3:30 and 4 yesterday afternoon at WS Broad and Laurel.

The new School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at Clemson University places mechanical engineering and automotive engineering under one umbrella.  And the university says the South’s rise in building electric vehicles and their batteries is behind the move to establish a new school for engineering students.  Primarily, most mechanical engineers will locate on the main campus; most automotive engineers, at […]