Category: News

Walhalla is one leg for a tour bus carrying 50 people from Charleston. The tour bus made a stop this afternoon at the Walhalla Steak House, as part of a two-day tour of the Golden Corner area. Tracy Todd says today’s tourists are volunteer tour guiders and interpreters from Charleston’s historic Middleton Place, famous for its landscape gardens from the […]

The Greater Walhalla Area Chamber of Commerce has given Paul Raines permission to stage “Week of Christmas” events on the Green, at the downtown corner of Main and N. Catherine. But the chamber has attached some conditions, including a certificate of insurance with $1 million worth of liability coverage. Raines says he has concerns and will speak publicly tomorrow about […]

A family member reports a judge’s ruling in Oconee County in a child custody case over a 10-month old girl. Lynne Delph, a former Oconee County resident now living in Horry County, tells 96.3/WGOG NEWS that 10th Circuit Family Court Judge Edgar Long yesterday terminated the mother’s rights. Delph says she and her husband, Grant, are licensed to adopt and […]

A 34-year old man has been arrested and charged in the investigation of a burglary in late January at a home on the Doctor John’s Road. County law enforcement records show Bradford Harrison Noel of S. Hampton Street, Westminster charged with burglary and larceny January 29 at the Dr. John’s Road home. Stolen in the burglary was medication, including pain […]

State troopers say there are injuries in a 7:46 a-m accident near S.C. 24 in Oconee County. The accident was reported at 11 and Pleasant Hill Circle.

Everyone is invited to an Oconee Democratic Party meeting this month to hear a Clemson professor talk about a new voting system developed at the university’s School of Computing. Guest speaker for 9 a-m Saturday, March 16 meeting at the Oconee Medical Center will be Dr. Juan Gilbert. According to party chairwoman Rosellen Aleguire, the meeting takes place in the […]

A South Carolina DOT official says this winter’s frequent rainfall has delayed the finish of repairs to a bridge that feeds traffic to Central’s Wal-Mart store. The DOT’s Jason Allison told 96.3/WGOG NEWS that, in spite of the delays faced by the contractor, repairs to 18 Mile Creek Bridge in Pickens County should be completed this month, and the bridge […]

A 46-year old Walhalla man was arrested Saturday and charged with the theft of copper from Clemson University property in Oconee County. According to the university, James L. Chastain was charged by campus police with committing injury to real property, or fixtures or improvements to obtain nonferrous metals, damage of $5 thousand or more. Chastain was arrested Saturday by Oconee […]

The police in Seneca report four people detained as part of the investigation into the discovery of a methamphetamine lab inside two rooms at a By-Pass 123 motel. According to Chief John Covington, suspicious activity led the police yesterday morning to the Town ‘n Country Motel. A meth lab cleanup crew was summoned from Columbia, and Seneca Major Jeremy Rothell […]

Two Oconee County officials will be presenters during this week’s conference in Myrtle Beach of the South Carolina Emergency Management Association. Wayne Garland, paramedic, and Lisa Simmering, Oconee GIS analyst, will present “A Special Needs Success” during a break out session tomorrow morning.