Category: News

Westminster’s mayor and council are apt to be the ones to decide whether to approve Seneca’s request for additional seats on the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, according to one JRSA commissioner who spoke to 96.3/WGOG NEWS. Last week Walhalla City Council voted down Seneca’s request and that action, the commissioner said, leaves the matter up to the JRSA’s third-member city, […]

An I-85 peninsula in Oconee County is a step closer to changing forever, the result of a State Budget and Control Board vote this morning in Columbia. All but one member of the five-member board approved a long-term sublease by the State Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism to Sanctuary Pointe LLC, a group of developers who envision a resort […]

Sanctuary Pointe sublease has been OK’d. The approval came in a vote around 9:45 this morning by the state Budget and Control Board. Only one of the five board members voted no. It means that private developers may proceed to develop an I-85 peninsula at Lake Hartwell in Oconee into resort, approximately halfway between Charlotte and Atlanta.

The possibility of a building inside the Golden Corner Commerce Park housing a library and new county economic development headquarters was raised during a meeting last night in Seneca of the Oconee Library Board of Trustees. Library trustee John Adams indicated that the library system’s goal toward its first branch serving southern Oconee County could be facilitated by an arrangement […]

December was a month for widespread flu, which brought many suffering people to the emergency department at Oconee Medical Center. And from there, many of those emergency visitors went straight to patient rooms in the hospital. The financial reports supplied to the OMC board of directors last night showed a positive bottom line of nearly $525 thousand in December. And, […]

Chairman Danny Day of the Oconee Library Board of Trustees declared in Seneca last night the time is fast approaching to stop the talking and the studying and to make a final decision on where to build that city’s replacement library. At the board’s first 2013 meeting, Day addressed the library board and welcomed four new members who are going […]

Keen to the latest craze in technology, Oconee public libraries are set to advance from Facebook to Twitter. After a presentation last night by Leah Price, the Westminster librarian, the county board of library trustees authorized the opening of a Twitter account, as a way to better communicate with its patrons and the world with what’s going on in its […]

The police in Walhalla have arrested a second suspect in their investigation of a burglary last fall at a unit in Standpointe Vista Apartments. Chief Ronald Wilbanks says Jeffrey Wayne Wood, 33-year old resident of Boom Dock Drive, Walhalla was arrested Sunday and charged with burglary first degree. Wood is the second man arrested and charged in the burglary which […]

A Clemson student was arrested early Saturday and charged with assaulting two police officers. According to the university announcement, Jordan Philip Parker of Nashville, Tennessee was charged with a felony count of “resisting/assault, beat or wound police officer serving process or while resisting arrest” after a 3:45 a-m incident outside the student residence building Sanders Hall. The 20-year old sophomore […]

Today’s street edition of The Journal is late. According to publisher Jerry Edwards, mechanical and technical problems have caused the delay. Edwards says look for the paper to hit the streets later today.