Walhalla to engage legal beagle

After a closed-door meeting, Walhalla City Council gave its administrator the authority to line up a legal advisor as the city potentially could find itself in court defending itself from a fellow municipal member of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority.  A letter from a Seneca lawyer, containing threat of legal action, is creating discord between Seneca and the cities of Walhalla and Westminster over whether Seneca, the largest user of the system, is entitled to greater representation on the JRSA policy-making board.  Meantime, a JRSA committee is recommending that mediation be arranged to settle the differences.  Mayor Edwards yesterday made no public comment on the situation; however, 101.7/WGOG NEWS learned from a well-placed source that Edwards is frustrated that, so far, there has been no meeting among the mayors of the three cities to try to quell the controversy.