Category: News

U-S Senator Lindsey Graham says President Obama wanted three things on gun control—-and lost on all three. Graham is hailing his votes as the Senate rejected a ban on assault weapons, limit on magazine sizes, and expand background checks. “Today we saw that President Obama’s politically-driven solutions to gun violence could not withstand scrutiny from Congress and the American people,” […]

A Seneca homeowner applies tonight for a variance to the city’s zoning law. Jeff Waters on Oak Knoll Court is the applicant for a variance to property zoned RM-8. The Seneca Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a hearing starting at 6 at City Hall.

A ferocious spring storm that struck the Walhalla area caused people to seek cover and kept emergency crews on to go from Walhalla to West Union. During a two-hour period late yesterday afternoon, U-S Weather Observer Barbara Wilson recorded more than two inches of rain in Walhalla. Around 4:15, a tree fell onto a car on West Union’s E. Main […]

A senior at Seneca High, James Eister, won first place in the physics category last weekend at the annual conference of the South Carolina Junior Academy of Science. Before judges and peers, James presented research in which he used a pneumatic projectile launcher. He competed against hundreds of students from across the state. Representing Seneca High at the conference also […]

Two more arrests are reported by the Oconee Sheriff’s Department as part of the drug round-up that began yesterday morning. The latest arrests make 16 people rounded up. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says a total of 25 people are targeted.

The official proceeding for an Oconee County manufacturing plant to jump across the county line into Pickens is scheduled Monday night during a meeting in Pickens. The Pickens County Council has set a public hearing and third reading of an ordinance transferring property to Taylor Made Golf. Taylor Made, now located near Westminster, announced plans early this month to move […]

Former South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford, who’s currently the GOP nominee for the U.S. House seat he used to hold, has been accused of trespassing by his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford. According to court documents obtained by the Associated Press, Sanford must appear in court to answer the charges two days after the May 7th election, in which he’s going […]

Walhalla City Council was on the receiving end of Sheriff Mike Crenshaw’s pitch to build the new county jail between the existing LEC and West View Cemetery. And a handful of audience members were there with concerns and questions. In his presentation, Crenshaw stressed his intent to is to be a good steward of up to $15.7 million in project […]

Months and years of work to pull off a pair of separate economic development projects were realized during last night’s meeting of Oconee County Council. By approving five agreements, the council gave final reading to leasing the former courthouse to developers who have plans to adapt to a hotel and other businesses. According to County Administrator Scott Moulder, the wording […]

A proposal for Oconee County to provide prison inmates to help Walhalla prepare the city swimming pool to open this year is in the hands of the Oconee County administrator. At City Hall, Mayor Danny Edwards handed County Councilman Wayne McCall a copy of the lease agreement. McCall took that copy to last night’s county council meeting, but did not […]