Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
While Georgia and other states are participating in Super Tuesday, there’s a special election happening today in Walhalla to fill a vacancy on the city’s six-member council. Keith Pace is the only candidate on the ballot. Voting takes place from 7:00 am until 7:00 pm today at the EMS Rescue Building on South Church Street in Walhalla.
Read moreThe Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two more suspects in connection with a February 24th burglary at the old Dunlop plant near Westminster. 43 year-old Kevin Wayne Ballard of a Duncan Road address in Six Mile was transferred from custody in Pickens County to Oconee County on Friday and charged here with Second Degree Burglary, Malicious Injury to Property, […]
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Gov. Henry McMaster has proclaimed March 2020 Prescribed Fire Awareness Month in South Carolina. Prescribed, or controlled, burning is the skilled application of fire under planned weather and fuel conditions to achieve specific forest and land management objectives. About 500,000 acres are prescribed-burned every year in South Carolina – most of them on private land – but at least 1 […]
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26 year-old Bobby Justin Peay was arrested on Friday by Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputies and charged with being an habitual traffic offender, operating an unregistered vehicle, driving on suspended license, an open container violation, third degree assault and battery and other offenses. He remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center pending bond, total amount of which was set […]
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Seneca attorney Ann Sullivan has made the 2019 Pro Bono Honor Roll – a list of South Carolina attorneys who have donated at least fifty or more hours of services at free or reduced fees to persons of limited means or to public service and/or charitable organizations. Nearly a quarter of South Carolina’s residents live at or below 125% of […]
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State Rep. Bill Sandifer of Seneca said will seek re-election to the State House of Representatives. Sandifer serves as the District 2 representative from Oconee County. Sandifer is also Chairman of the state house’s Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, which recently passed a bill to streamline regulations and eliminate hurdles businesses face with business license taxes.
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Federal, State, and Local Government and Health Officials are continuing to monitor the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are currently 43 confirmed cases in the US across 10 different states. The School District of Oconee County is also monitoring the pandemic. In a statement, the District said that while the risk in our […]
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This week, March 1-7, by gubernatorial proclamation is South Carolina Citizen Weather Observer Week. This week highlights the efforts made by people like Barbara Wilson of Walhalla, whose family has spent decades observing and recording high and low temperatures, precipitation amounts and providing critical information during extreme weather events. Volunteers like Wilson stand as the cornerstone of the nation’s weather […]
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Late Friday evening, Oconee County Deputies officially booked Thomas Gregory Lockridge, Jr., age 33 of South Abbot Road, on a charge of Domestic Violence – Third Degree for an assault on a female victim related to a Monday, February 24th standoff near Walhalla. We told you about the incident last week when it happened, after deputies got a call reporting […]
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Joe Biden was the choice of voters in Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary. The former Vice President took 48% of the vote statewide, and 37% in Oconee County. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders came in second with 19% of the votes from across the state, and 24% in Oconee County. This weekend’s primary found some candidates ending their bids for the […]
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