Walhalla and Westminster City Councils Hold Key Meetings Tonight

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 […]

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Congresswoman Biggs Introduces Bills Targeting Sanctuary Cities and Terrorist Collaborators

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 […]

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Walhalla Man Arrested on Multiple Drug Trafficking Charges

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 […]

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Seneca Man Dies Following Two-Vehicle Collision

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.

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Tranq is here now” – says spec op officer

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.”  […]

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Committee addresses Oconee sewer future

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 […]

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Ken Sloan gets a warm send-off

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 […]

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Corinth-Shiloh volunteer fire fighters to play continuing role

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, […]

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