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RE-ZONING IN FAVOR OF NEW WESTMINSTER SUBDIVSION
A vote 3-0 by the Westminster Planning Commission helps clear the way for a home development called Westminster Crossing. No one spoke in opposition during a hearing last night at the City Hall. Approved was a zoning change from residential-25 to residential-15. It’s said that potentially there are more than 100 lots to develop for new houses.
Read moreWARRANTS ALLEGE WOMAN ATTACKED FOUR DEPUTIES
A weekend incident on the rural Peaceful Lane in Oconee County is alleged to have been anything except peaceful. A Peaceful Lane resident in the Tokeena-Crossroads community was arrested by Oconee sheriff’s officers. Arrest records show Rebecca Denise Heaton is charged with public disorderly conduct, assault on police officer while resisting arrest, and spitting in the face of two deputies […]
Read moreTOP WINNERS OF FESTIVAL OF TREES COMPETITION
In a ceremony this morning, checks were presented to the top three winners of the Festival of Trees competition at Duke Energy’s World of Energy education center at Oconee Nuclear Station. In first place, nonprofit organization Making My Mark, decorated by Century 21 Hometown Realtors, will receive $2,500; in second place, the Pilot Club of Seneca will receive $1,500; and, […]
Read moreBODY FOUND NEAR THE GEORGIA-SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER
The sheriff of Stephens County, Georgia says the body found Saturday morning at the Broken Bridges near U-S 123 and the state line between Stephens County, Georgia and Oconee County, South Carolina was that of a Lumpkin County, Georgia woman. She is now identified as Pamela Bellamy, 65-year old resident of Dahlonega. Stephens Sheriff Randy Shirley made the following statement […]
Read moreRE-ZONING AT THE FORE TONIGHT IN WESTMINSTER
RE-ZONING AT THE FORE TONIGHT IN WESTMINSTER At their meeting this evening, Westminster planning commissioners will consider re-zoning property to allow for a new home development called Westminster Crossing. The public hearing takes place at 5:30 at City Hall.
Read moreNEXT MONTH’S PRIMARY IS OPEN VOTING ACROSS SOUTH CAROLINA
South Carolina Democrats are staging a vote at the end of next month to gauge how much interest there is in a large field of hopefuls for their party’s nomination this year to run for President. The Democrats Presidential Preference Primary will take place Saturday, February 29. The names of 14 Democrats will be on the ballot. Because South Carolina […]
Read moreSHERIFF’S OFFICE ADDS NEW MEDICATION DROP OFF
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has a new Medication Drop Box for citizens of Oconee County to safely dispose of prescription and over the counter medication. The Drop Box is located at the Oconee County Governmental Offices on Pine Street in Walhalla. It’s just outside the door of the Sheriff’s Deputy’s office between the Assessor’s office and where citizens pay […]
Read moreTHE FIRST 2020 NEWBORN
The first newborn at the Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital came into this world at 12:46 pm yesterday. A photographer and two reporters were escorted into the hospital room for a chance to see the newborn and to meet and speak to the mother. The newborn is Loyalty Grace Roberts and the mother is Seneca resident Megan Roberts. Delivering physician was […]
Read moreDUNCAN STATEMENT ON KILLING OF IRANIAN COMMANDER
U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan has reacted to the killing by the U-S in Iraq of a top Iranian military commander. The 3rd District Republican said: I applaud President Trump for taking decisive action to take out Qassem Soleimani, a brutal terrorist with the blood of countless Americans on his hands.” Soleimani headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U-S […]
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