Category: News

Walhalla’s Main Street, from Tugaloo to Catherine, was off limits for about 20 minutes this morning while public safety responders, including HAZMAT personnel, investigated a spill from a passing tanker truck.  Chief Will Bates of the fire department said a small spill of a petroleum asphalt liquid evaporated quickly and the responders were able to determine there was no public […]

Westminster City Council is preparing for a budget increase in utility rates due to city growth and infrastructure improvements. The balanced budget of $41,378,308 includes no changes in millage rates or service reductions. Infrastructure improvements are being made using city resources and external funding. To cover ongoing improvements and a lawsuit payout, City Administrator Kevin Bronson proposed rate increases for […]

Next week, Clemson University will confer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees to approximately 5,000 students. The doctoral hooding will occur at the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, May 7, at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Commencement for bachelor’s and master’s candidates will be held at Littlejohn Coliseum across six ceremonies on Thursday, May 9, and Friday, May […]

Matthew Durham, the Oconee County Council chairman, told the Walhalla City Council that the type of employee salary study, which is in its final stages of completion for county government, could be of help to city government as it re-evaluates what it pays its workforce.  And Mayor Tim Hall is pleased with Durham’s offer to share the county’s salary study […]

Walhalla’s streak of holding the line on property taxes appears to be at risk this year, as the mayor and council considers the dollar numbers that’ll make up the city’s new spending plan.  Early during the council budget workshop Mayor Tim Hall reacted to the prospects of raising taxes by five mills, from 84 to 89.  The city’s property tax […]

Before hiring a moving company, the BBB — the Better Business Bureau — recommends careful research to avoid falling victim to a moving scam.  They run the gamut from missing items, massive price increases and, in some cases, goods being held hostage for additional payment.  Each year several versions of moving scams are reported to the BBB.  They include no […]

A group of 30 to 35 people took part in the National Day of Prayer event in Salem.  Tony Brown, Salem Baptist Church pastor, led the group in thought and prayer.  Salem’s just one of several such events today across Oconee.

South Carolina’s Tim Scott applauds the passage by the House of his Antisemitism Awareness Act and decries as reprehensible and alarming what’s happening on college campus such as Yale, UCLA and Columbia.  The junior South Carolina U-S senator says, “When people engage in harassment or bullying of Jewish individuals where they justify the killing of Jews or use blood libel […]

A member of the Anderson County Fire Department, the late Joseph Barr, will be among those in the profession to be remembered this weekend in Emmitsburg, Maryland during the 43rd National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend.  In all, the observance will honor 89 firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2023 and 137 who died in previous years.  Barr, […]

A Westminster cleanup day is scheduled Saturday.  Mayor Ramey requests that all who would like to lend a hand to make the city a cleaner place should gather at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at the gazebo next to the depot.  As part of the cleanup, flowers will be planted.