Category: News

The forecast for heavy rain in the Upstate and Midlands means the cancellation of all Prisma Health hospital-based drive-thru COVID 19 tests today and tomorrow.  The cancelled testing sites include Prisma’s seven hospital-based drive-thru sites across the state, along with two community test sites in the Upstate and Midlands.

The faithful national weather watcher in Walhalla in the dark makes her way outside in the pouring rain to measure what Hurricane Sally has delivered to the Golden Corner.  By the 7 o’clock hour, it was 1.21″ and, as Barbara Wilson says, “more to come.”

The EF3 tornado was an eye-opener for Oconee County decision makers when it came to disseminating important information in a timely manner. It apparently is leading county government to re-evaluate its communications with the public.  County Administrator Amanda Brock and Council Chairman Julian Davis have thrown out the idea of the county designating someone to act as a public information […]

Two Oconee deputies found a pistol in the grass late at night Tuesday off SC 28, the Highlands Highway, and arrested a man on foot who they say discarded the gun.  According to the Sheriff’s Office, the gun was a fully-loaded Ruger .380 semi-automatic. Law enforcement records show Lake Becky Road resident Zachary James Johnson charged with unlawfully carrying a […]

Two researchers at Clemson University’s Department of Communication have become international experts in identifying and exposing social media campaigns that spread disinformation.  The attention received by Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren reflect their first project, in 2017, to uncover and expose more than three million troll treats from Russian Twitter.  The university’s new Media Forensics Lab goes beyond educating those […]

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 489 new confirmed cases and 43 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 28 additional confirmed deaths and 10 new probable deaths.  One of the 10 probable deaths is that of an elderly Oconeean, who was diagnosed September 8.  Three new Oconee cases are reported. This brings the total […]

USDA has extended a waiver that permits all Oconee school children, regardless of income, to enjoy breakfast and lunch at school at no charge.  The waiver is valid through December 31 or until congressional approved funding runs out.  It further allows districts to refund the cost of student meals purchased between September 1 and 16.  The waiver also applies to […]

Two new COVID cases appear today on the list kept by the Oconee School District.  Entered on the list effective Tuesday:  a student at Walhalla High School and an employee at the West-Oak Middle School.  The employee, it is noted, had not entered the school building since September 3.

Westminster will not require a special election this fall to fill two council seats.  Two councilmen who declared their intent to leave after only one year of their terms have both decided they spoke in haste and they intend to remain part of their city’s six-member council.  Danny Duncan this morning said he agrees with Rusty Cater that their intention […]

  Leaky pipes have interrupted water service to a Lake Hartwell subdivision in Anderson County, but the water supplier doesn’t believe the leaks can currently justify new infrastructure.  The request from the Seminole Point subdivision was an item of new business yesterday for the board of directors of the Pioneer Rural Water District at Oakway.  Office records show in recent […]