Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
Two people have been arrested on prostitution charges, according to Seneca Police. The report says the incident happened in the Ingles parking lot in Seneca on Thursday, Nov. 30, around 2:30pm. Police say the investigation was “complaint based” and conducted by their Narcotics Vice Unit. Seneca Police report that 25-year-old Sierra Ashley Weathersbee arranged to meet with an undercover officer […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Gamecocks play the Michigan Wolverines on Jan. 1, 2018, in the Outback Bowl. South Carolina finished the regular season 8-4 overall and are heading back to Tampa, Florida as this will be the Gamecocks fifth appearance in the Outback Bowl. They are 3-1, including a win against Michigan in 2013. Kickoff is scheduled for noon and of […]
Read moreThe Clemson Tigers won their third straight and 17th all-time ACC Football Championship, defeating the Miami Hurricanes, 38-3 on Saturday at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. With the win, Clemson improves to 12-1 overall on the season and advances to the four-team College Football Playoff. The Tigers were selected as the number one seed in the fourth year […]
Read moreAn accident last winter in a School District of Oconee County (SDOC) gymnasium produced a lawsuit last week in Oconee Common Pleas Court. Listed as the plaintiff is a minor child, while the SDOC is the defendant. The plaintiff seeks damages in excess of $100,000 to compensate a West-Oak Middle School basketball player who lost part of his right middle […]
Read moreThe harvest month was more like famine when it came to rain in the Golden Corner of South Carolina. Official U.S. Weather Observer Barbara Wilson gives the November weather readings from her station in Walhalla. “For November the amount of precipitation was just over three-quarters of an inch, in fact .078 inches. Where as the previous month of October was […]
Read moreAt 8:30am on Sunday, Dec. 3, a series of small explosions will pulverize columns on the first, third and fifth floors of the Clemson House at Clemson University, and what remains of the building will collapse. John Gouch, Assistant Director of Strategic Communications at Clemson University tells where you can see the big implosion. “On the morning of the implosion, […]
Read moreSeneca area elementary school resource officer, Deputy Mike Thompson, recently sponsored a license plate contest for the three Seneca area elementary schools. Justin Lee Mauldin, a fourth grader from Northside Elementary School, was chosen as the winner. His license plate will be displayed on the front of Deputy Thompson’s patrol car of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office.
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It may not feel like it outside but winter is almost here and Oconee County Emergency Services Deputy Chief of Special Operations Scott Krein wants residents to prepare now for winter weather. “It’s nice and warm right now but now is the time to check out those generators, check out those heaters. So, when they do have to be turned […]
Read moreThe annual statewide candlelight vigil for impaired driving victims takes place on Saturday, Dec. 2, at 1pm in the Gervais Street Room of the State Museum, 301 Gervais Street in Columbia. This yearly event honors and remembers all victims of impaired driving in South Carolina and around the nation. In 2016, there were 331 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in South Carolina […]
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Hate wrapping all those Christmas gifts? Let the Oconee Heritage Center (OHC) staff do it for you. The OHC in downtown Walhalla is wrapping gifts now through Dec. 22, tells Leslie Hagerty, Director and Curator of the OHC. “Drop off your packages anytime the OHC is open; Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 11am to 5pm. Bring your own special wrapping paper […]
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