Category: News

Thirty-seven students at Daniel High School, under the guidance of Clemson graduate students, spent several months examining the water quality of Indian Creek in the Clemson Experimental Forest. The “What’s in Our Waters” project, created by five Clemson graduate students, has grown to 12 mentors who help to educate high school students in Pickens and Anderson counties about a variety […]

Westminster is losing population. It’s a city with an increasing rate of empty houses. And some of those who care the most about the city fear that, in 20 years, Oconee’s third largest town could become a ghost town. Twenty years into the future was key last night as all seats filled in the Westminster Depot for a visioning event […]

The body of a man pulled from Lake Hartwell last Sunday has been positively identified as that of a missing kayaker from West Union. WLHR Radio quotes a Georgia DNR officer as saying an autopsy confirms the body was that of Brady Hamby. He had taken his kayak into the lake February 11 from Hartwell State Park, but never returned. […]

For the good of Oconee’s tourism and the like, a county leader proposes a countywide 2% hospitality tax—identical to the tax now charged by Oconee’s three largest municipalities. Ken Sloan, director of the Mountain Lakes Conventions Visitors Bureau, made his pitch yesterday at the business forum of the Oconee Economic Alliance. As late three hours later, Sloan was getting reaction […]

Vice President Joe Biden spoke out against Republican senators whose actions, he said, undermine President Obama’s negotiations with Iran for a nuclear weapons deal. The Associated Press quoted Biden as saying, “I cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country — much less a longtime foreign adversary —- that the President does not have the […]

 Adrianna Lione’s winner poster is practically as tall as she is. The second grader at Walhalla Elementary received a cash award of $45 dollars and a weather alert radio for her poster judged the best of those submitted in the annual tornado safety poster contest. That contest is sponsored by Oconee Emergency Services to draw attention to the destruction and […]

South Carolina officials are requesting the public to keep an eye out for a strain of avian flu that has been identified in seven states and is potentially deadly to poultry. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, so far, has been identified in backyard and commercial poultry flocks, wild ducks and geese from Oregon to Arkansas. While not considered a threat to […]

Army Private Jordan Lunsford has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson. He’s the son of Becky and Jeff Lunsford of Seneca and a 2014 graduate of Walhalla High School.

Congress will do something to try to stop the growing threat of ISIS in the Middle East, but South Carolina’s Third District representative predicts it will be short of a declaration of war. At the Seneca Rotary Club today, Congressman Jeff Duncan said there will be an agreement to authorize a military force, but it likely won’t be everything President […]

Near Walhalla today, fire burned a small storage building on the property of a trailer home that caught fire last year. Fire fighters from Walhalla, West Union and Westminster responded.