Category: News

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that 14-year-old Eric Lee Webber has been located in the Seneca area and is safe.  The Sheriff’s Office thanks everyone for your assistance and help this morning in their search for Eric.

(Walhalla, SC)————————————–The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing Tamassee teenager.   Dispatch received a call this morning, at around 8:17 am, from a family member of 14-year-old Eric Lee Webber.  According to the family member, Eric left his residence last night on Dynamite Road by crawling out of a window.  The family member […]

It’s another food giveaway tomorrow at Walhalla’s St. Luke Methodist Church. You can receive free food at the church between 4:30 and 5:30 Wednesday evening.

According to Oconee County Solid Waste and Recycling Assistant Director, Amy Walters, the recycling centers will be open Wednesday this week and closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holiday. They will reopen on Saturday.

A South Carolina chiropractor potentially could be sent to federal prison for five years and pay a fine of $250 thousand dollars.  On November 8 the U-S District Court of South Carolina entered a $9 million civil consent judgment for the U-S against Daniel McCollum under the False Claims Act.  On the same day, the government filed an information and […]

About 100 people helped celebrate an achievement for Salem.  On Friday night grand opening took place for the Eagles Nest Art Center, in the renovated Tamassee-Salem school auditorium.  The celebration featured a blessing delivered by a former school alumnus, pastor Frankie Porter.  The facility is now rated at 299-seat capacity and is to be the venue for a variety of […]

Fire fighters required four hours early this morning at the scene of a fire south of Seneca, in the Tokeena community.  There’s belief that what caught fire around midnight on Deer Knoll Drive was an old farmhouse.  No injuries reported.  

Walhalla city offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 25 and 26 for the Thanksgiving holidays.  Those offices will re-open 8:30 Monday morning, November 29.  Trash pickup is being adjusted.  Collections remain normal through tomorrow.  Those whose pickup day is normally Thursday will instead be required to have their roll carts out by 7 tomorrow morning for pickup tomorrow.

At this time, Oconee Sheriff’s Office reports, there are no signs that the death of a 24-year old Tamassee man had anything to do with foul play.  However, Austin Wade Campbell’s death continues to be investigated, and today there is to be an autopsy.  Campbell’s body was found Sunday in the Upper Whitewater Lake.  During the search for the missing […]

Walhalla fire fighters rushed this afternoon to the address of a single-wide mobile home south of the city limits.  The call to Mandy’s Drive centered on a possible structure fire.  However, according to interim Chief Will Bates, neither smoke, nor a fire was discovered.  Bates said a further investigation revealed the failure of an electric outlet, resulting in minor blackening […]