Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
Budget projections presented Tuesday night to Mayor Dan Alexander and Council of the City of Seneca seemed a bit discouraging on the surface. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the April Tornado, the city budgets for the upcoming fiscal year are taking a hard hit, with projections for the general fund at around half a million dollars less, and utilities at […]
Read more18-year old Walhalla resident Calvin Brandon Woodard, Jr is out of the Oconee County Detention Center on bond after his arrest on Tuesday by Westminster Police. Officers alleged that Woodard left the scene of an accident involving property damage not long before 4:00 pm on Johnson Street near South Spring Street. According to reports, Woodard struck a fire hydrant, a […]
Read more
Many areas of North Carolina and parts of the Palmetto State have been experiencing heavy rainfall as Tropical Depression Bertha makes its way closer with more rain expected in some areas. If your area experienced heavy rainfall and now has standing water, please proceed with caution when driving and make smart decisions behind the wheel. AAA has a few driving […]
Read more
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 207 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and 20 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 10,623 and those who have died to 466. One new positive case each was confirmed in Oconee, Pickens and Anderson Counties on […]
Read more
DHEC announced that over 110,000 tests for COVID-19 have been performed in South Carolina since May 1, and yesterday I took a test at one of the free mobile pop up clinic sites that DHEC is bringing to rural communities across the state. While at Salem Baptist Church on Wednesday, I was given the test by a woman named Sheila, […]
Read moreWhen you drive South Carolina highways, occasionally you’ll see signs reading “Keep Right Except to Pass.” But increasingly motorists ignore the sign and routinely use the passing lane for regular travel. That forces faster drivers to pull right and pass in the right lane, and that can create accidents. 94.1 The Lake and our sister station 101.7/WGOG decided to make […]
Read more
WALHALLA, SC (May 27, 2020) – Kamiyah Waddell, Grade 4, Orchard Park Elementary School, was selected as the Overall Grand Prize winner in the 35th Annual Tornado Safety Poster Contest conducted by Oconee County Emergency Services. The contest is designed for elementary students in grades one through five. The purpose of the contest is to educate children on the dangers […]
Read moreSeveral drug arrests were made on Monday, Memorial Day, by area law enforcement. According to arrest records from the Oconee County Detention Center, Walhalla Police arrested 26 year-old Cody Miles Glenn and charged him with possession of LSD; also on Monday, Oconee Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 43 year-old Harold Dee Morton on a charge of distributing methamphetamine, with bond set at […]
Read moreThe Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man on multiple charges yesterday after a pursuit. 37 year old Bobby Bruce Rains of Stamp Creek Landing Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 6:07pm. Rains had outstanding arrest warrants from 2019 in relation to two separate investigations on charges of Trafficking in Methamphetamine, Second Degree Burglary, Petit […]
Read moreA home in Walhallah on Morningside Drive near Moore Avenue sustained heat and smoke damage, but even worse, two of the residents were taken to Prisma Health Oconee initially. A female was treated there for smoke inhalation, however a male patient suffered burns over 30% of his body and had to be transferred to a medical facility in Greenville. The […]
Read more