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Public safety responders extricated two persons trapped inside the wreckage of a car and a tractor-trailer truck yesterday afternoon at the Wells Highway and 123 – the Seneca-Clemson Corridor.  According to the Corinth-Shiloh Fire District, personnel safely removed the two persons trapped.  They were treated at the scene by Prisma EMS and sent to the hospital for further evaluation.  There […]

An arrest last evening in the Poplar Springs community, in which the sheriff’s office charged a 56-year-old man with the use of firearm under the influence. A deputy sheriff interviewed nearby residents about the discharge of a rifle in the vicinity of N. Pond Fork Road.  The arresting officer said he collected nine spent shell casings and called it reckless […]

At the 2 o’clock hour, a serious accident on 123/Seneca-Clemson Corridor at Wells Highway.  We have an unofficial report of a car, occupied by two persons, wedged beneath a tractor trailer.  Traffic backed up on Wells and both ways on 123.

Legal assistance for the first-year Corinth-Shiloh Fire special fire district….Approved as the result of an executive session last week, according to Board Chairman Wayne Smith, was the hiring of Seneca attorney Andrew Holliday.  According to Smith, Holliday is to advise the commissioners about the future of the department volunteers’ 501-C3.  Smith also said the commissioners are anticipating the appointment by […]

Fresh off the press are color-coded maps of the Walhalla Stumphouse Mountain Park. They depict the parking, the restrooms, the picnic area, and scenic views. The famous tunnel, the waterfall, and most importantly, for active retreaters:  the Mountain bike trailhead, the hiking trailhead, the adaptive bike trail, and the bike repair station.

This year’s state champs, the Lady Razorbacks, will parade through Walhalla at 6 tonight.  The hope is the streets will line with Razor fans and others to cheer the winners.  They won the state 3-A title Friday in Columbia, defeating Keenan 70-58.

Only a day after the state ratcheted up the level of drought, Oconee benefitted from a needed rainfall.  At Walhalla, the official weather watcher measured a little more than one-quarter of an inch rain Saturday, followed by more than three-quarters of an inch yesterday.

A Seneca woman gets a role in a statewide political campaign.  Karen Iacovelli is one of the finance committee co-chairs in Attorney General Alan Wilson’s bid to win this year’s Republican nomination to run for governor.  As a finance co-chair, Iacovelli helps marshal Wilson’s financial campaign resources.

63 days ago today, 16 year old Cooper Bryant Crawford was reported missing to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office after leaving his home on West-Oak Highway near Townville. Since that time, the Missing Person’s Unit has followed up on leads in reference to Cooper’s whereabouts. Those tips have run dry, which has led Investigators today to ask for the public’s […]

The final at Columbia: Walhalla 70 Keenan 58. It means that, for the second straight year, the Lady Razorbacks are the state’s 3-A basketball champs. At one point this afternoon, Walhalla led by 21, but Keenan made a late charge. At the half, Walhalla enjoyed a 42-27 lead.