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The man who drowned last evening on the Georgia side of Lake Hartwell was a 22-year old Greer, South Carolina resident. The Hart County coroner, Mike Adams, said the fatality was Armando Esteban Sanchez Martinez. He drowned around 6 o’clock while swimming with friends at the Big Oaks Recreation area. The coroner said Martinez could not swim, and was not […]
Read moreFrom Walhalla to northern Oconee is considered prime for mountain bike riding. What’s called the Southeast Gravel Race to Valhalla takes place this Saturday (July 10). Expectations are that more 350 riders will depart from the James M. Brown Elementary School on the Coffee Road and take a route that will cover Long Creek and sections of the Sumter National Forest. […]
Read moreWalhalla’s trash collection routes that would normally run today will instead be run tomorrow, so tomorrow morning is when customers should have their roll carts at the curb. And the city has announced the following change. No longer will its crews pick up cardboard in or outside the city. A recycling receptacle is available at the city sanitation department on […]
Read moreThe employees of the state health agency are taking today as a July 4 holiday. The next report on COVID-19 numbers is to be issued tomorrow afternoon. The latest numbers from DHEC reflect the tabulation for the last day of June. On the 30th, there were 139 new confirmed cases of the virus, four of them in Oconee County. Statewide, […]
Read moreCrews from Walhalla’s utilities department were called into action on Saturday when a water line broke on s. highway 11. Service was scheduled to be restored for customers within a period of a few hours. Today, on Monday, July 5, Walhalla city offices are closed for the holiday.
Read moreThe fourth Saturday in October has been chosen as the day for the Second Annual Bigfoot Festival in Westminster. This, the 2nd such event, after one-year pause for COVID-19. Organizers promise a pocketbook friendly day on Saturday, October 23. There will be no admittance charge; the only cost is if you buy something. Here’s what’s planned: a parade, Big Foot […]
Read moreA Thursday evening car accident on a rural Oconee County state road took the life of a Seneca woman. Amber Leigh Parker was 23 years old. Coroner Addis says Parker died at the scene—the Burnt Tanyard Road near the Whitmire Church Road. State trooper Brandon Bolt said the Ford sedan went left of center, over-corrected, ran off the right side […]
Read moreTwo boys remain in the custody of their parents as court proceedings have been announced in the case of the homicide of a man June 23 near Westminster. The county sheriff’s office filed a Family Court petition charging an 8-year old and a 9-year old with involuntary manslaughter of Danny Andrew Smith, 62 years old. Sheriff Crenshaw made this statement: […]
Read moreOconee County solid waste facilities are closed through Monday, to allow the workers to observe the July 4 holiday. Those facilities re-open at regular time Tuesday.
Read moreWalhalla High School principal Steve Garrett today announced the hiring of Tim Cummings as the Razorbacks’ new Head Baseball Coach. Cummings comes to Walhalla from Blue Ridge High School where he served as an assistant coach of the Tigers’ baseball team.
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