Category: News

The Walhalla American Legion proudly announces it’s 2016 Scholarship recipient. She is Kimberly Gibson of Fayetteville, North Carolina, the granddaughter of Walhalla Post member Randy Gibson of Walhalla. Post spokesman Jerry Dyar says Kimberly has enrolled at Fayetteville Technical Community College in the upcoming Freshman class where she plans to study Elementary Education. Dyar said, “Our post scholarship program is […]

Oconee County Emergency Services report that three teenagers are safe after getting lost hiking along the Foothills Trail near Lake Jocassee. Crews from Oconee and Pickens counties, along with rescuers from North Carolina responded to the area and began searching for the teenagers around 2pm Monday. The three teens began hiking a rural area of the Foothills Trail on Friday […]

An investigating of a reported sexual assault is underway at Clemson University. Campus Police report the incident occurred Sunday evening near Building A of the Core Campus construction site. The victim described the suspect as a white man in his 30’s, approximately 6 feet tall with an athletic build, a reddish-brown goatee and bowlegged. The victim said that the man […]

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office has been conducting an investigation into the disappearance of a Spartanburg County man reported missing on July 14, 2016. Investigators report that 30-year-old Christopher Allen Tankersley was last seen on July 13 after visiting a friend in Six Mile. Tankersley left the friend’s residence operating a 2016 Kawasaki motorcycle stating that he was going home […]

Oconee County Parks, Recreation & Tourism (PRT) Commission announces that Accommodations Tax (ATAX) grant applications will be accepted until 3 pm Monday, August 15, 2016. ATAX Application guides may be requested through the PRT office at 888-1488 and will be available online at www.oconeesc.com Eligible projects for ATAX grant consideration are tourism advertising and promotion; the promotion of arts and […]

A late night car accident in Pickens County left a 7-year old boy dead. The accident occurred Saturday night on South Carolina 133 and involved a car crossing the centerline after a curve in the road and hitting an embankment. According to the highway patrol, the boy was in a booster seat. Trooper Bill Ryne said the driver of the […]

Officials of South Carolina Department of Natural Resources have confirmed that 40 thousand fish died recently, apparently due to low oxygen levels, at the Walhalla Fish Hatchery off highway 107. Dan Rankin, DNR Upstate fisheries biologist, says the fish kill occurred the weekend of July 9-10 and, as he put it, “It was bad.” However, he says, the kill has […]

A variance is requested tonight to the Oconee County zoning law. At 6 o’clock, the county Board of Zoning Appeals will convene to hear a request to vary from the setback rules for an expansion of J-Davis Construction Company on highway 11. Board meetings are held in the Oconee County Council Chambers at Walhalla.

The Collins Children’s Home is challenging businesses, industries, churches, schools and the community to get muddy for a good cause at the fourth annual Collins Home Mud Run on Aug. 27. This challenge is a great opportunity to help employees, members, clients and students improve their physical fitness while supporting a local charity, says Alena Pelfrey, executive director of the […]