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November 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum Marijuana use for approved medical purposes is an issue that won’t go away in South Carolina, in spite of one lawmaker’s views on the controversial subject. State Senator Thomas Alexander has served on a committee studying whether certain patients should be allowed to smoke marijuana, to help relieve their discomfort. But Alexander told Walhalla Rotarians […]
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November 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum The merger of Greenville Health System and Palmetto Health of the Midlands means a new statement of purpose for its member hospitals, such as Oconee Memorial. Starting January 1, the Oconee medical campus of GHS becomes Prisma Health. And last night Hunter Kome, the chief operating officer of Oconee Memorial, told a board of local […]
Read moreNovember 27, 2018 Dick Mangrum Construction job one these days in the Oconee School District is the new career center on highway 11. Actual construction starts in February, with the targeted opening date 2020. But on the heels of the 140 thousand square foot career and technology center, district officials say, is a replacement Seneca middle school. The district is […]
Read moreOconee County has its sights set on a piece of land near Walhalla to expand its money-making Rock Quarry operations. As yet, however, there’s no deal. According to Edda Cammick, county council chairwoman, the council recently passed a resolution authorizing negotiations and due diligence before the deal goes thru. “We don’t have the final price for the final contract yet. […]
Read moreOconee County and the state police are investigating the early morning fire today at a home on Shady Lane near Sourwood Drive. Charlie King, the Oconee County fire chief, says the help of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division was requested as the owner of the home is a volunteer fire fighter in the county. King says the first arriving […]
Read moreIn swapping properties, Oconee’s 9-11 Memorial Committee is exchanging one major thoroughfare for another. By relinquishing the property on highway 11 at the Walhalla High School, the committee loses the leisure traffic attracted to the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway. However, Brandon Shirley says SC 183/the Pickens Highway, in front of the Walhalla Middle School, is a major thoroughfare for Walhalla. […]
Read moreOconee County rescuers looked on Saturday for a hiker in distress on a trail in the vicinity of the Oconee State Park, but were forced to give up their search hours later after finding no one. Charlie King of Oconee Emergency Services said responders were plagued by the lack of specific information as to the location of the individual in […]
Read moreStarting tomorrow, Walhalla’s leaders will meet face-to-face with the six finalists for the job of police chief. A schedule of afternoon and evening interviews is being arranged, including the possibility that the city council will speak to applicant Robert Crosby during an executive session following tomorrow night’s regular council meeting. The interviews start tomorrow and run thru Tuesday, December 4.
Read moreA magistrate judge in federal court has granted Tori Morton’s lawyer additional time to respond to an attempt by the attorney for the Seneca police to strike portions of Morton’s civil lawsuit naming the police, the city, and former Seneca policeman Mark Tiller. Representing the police department, attorney Lane Davis moved to dismiss the causes for intentional infliction of emotional […]
Read moreOconee’s new agricultural advisory board further opened the line of communications with those in the business of putting food on the plate of Americans and others in the world. A rancher-farm listening session ran nearly 90 minutes last night in the chambers of the Oconee County Council. And the listening session came on the same day that a representative of […]
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