Category: News

A Powerball ticket worth $150,000 from this past weekend’s drawing was sold at the Power Trac gas station located at 3301 Highway 88 in Central, Pickens County. The winning numbers for the unclaimed ticket are 4, 6, 9, 23, 59, with a Powerball of 25. The next Powerball drawing is set for Wednesday night at 10:59 p.m., featuring an estimated […]

Two Oconee County municipalities, Walhalla and Westminster, are holding their regular City Council meetings tonight to address significant community issues. The Walhalla City Council will convene at 5:30 PM at the Walhalla Depot, with Mayor Tim Hall presiding over an agenda that includes the final readings of ordinances to amend annexation requirements and adopt the FY 2025-2026 budget, alongside first […]

Representative Sheri Biggs (R-SC-03) has introduced two national security bills aimed at confronting what she describes as growing threats from cartels, terrorist networks, and sanctuary cities. The “No Passports for Terrorists and Traffickers Act” seeks to revoke or deny U.S. passports to individuals charged with or convicted of terrorism-related crimes or those providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, a […]

An ongoing investigation by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics Agents led to the arrest of 35-year-old Brent Eric Money of Walhalla on Thursday. Money faces 16 arrest warrants, including two counts of trafficking methamphetamine, one count each of trafficking fentanyl and cocaine, three counts each of distribution of fentanyl and possession of a controlled substance, one count of distribution […]

The Westminster City Council is set to hold its regular meeting on June 17, at 6:00 PM at the Westminster Fire Department, where key agenda items include the second reading of the FY2025-2026 annual budget ordinance, proposing a total budget of over $24.4 million across all funds, and a public hearing for its adoption. The council will also consider the […]

An 83-year-old Seneca man died Saturday night (June 14, 2025) from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle collision which occurred Saturday afternoon near Westminster. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis said that Knox Howard Kelley, 83, of Seneca, died just before 9:00 pm in the intensive care unit at Prisma – Greenville Memorial Hospital. His manner of death is classified as Accidental.

A search warrant executed at a home south of Walhalla yesterday led to the arrest of 35-year-old resident Brent Eric Money.  This afternoon the sheriff’s office announced 16 arrest warrants, alleging multiple drug offenses including trafficking in meth, trafficking in fentanyl, trafficking in cocaine.  The announcement reads:  “…Deputies seized trafficking weight quantities of Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine and multiple firearms.”  […]

An ad hoc committee appears to be on a final path toward recommendations to establish a new or revised government structure for the future of Oconee County sewer.  The ad hoc feasibility implementation group meets Monday morning in the Lamar Bailes Board Room in the operations and administration building of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  The agenda calls for a […]

A trip to Bermuda and a transition to real estate work await Oconee’s Ken Sloan, who retires as the chief marketer to interest tourist visits to the county.  Seventeen years ago, Sloan began his service to Oconee as the executive director of what was called the Mountain Lakes Convention and Visitors Bureau.  That entity morphed into what today is Visit […]

In the run-up to a paid fire station, Corinth-Shiloh fire commissioners are making assurances they’ll value the continuing role that their volunteers play.  Those assurances were extended last evening after two Corinth-Shiloh volunteers, including the current assistant fire chief, addressed the meeting.  Much of the meeting centered on the process to follow to hire the station’s first full-time, paid chief, […]