Walhalla News

November 12, 2009 - 12:05 a.m. EST Walhalla High School senior Sean Hassell signs a letter of intent to play golf at Furman University on Wednesday morning in Walhalla.

November 10, 2009 - 10:31 p.m. EST WALHALLA - Nearly half of those addressing the Oconee County School Board on Tuesday night regarding proposed locations for a new Walhalla High School said there is nothing wrong with the location on which the school has stood for the past 45 years.

November 10, 2009 - 12:00 a.m. EST The Rev. Tim Whited explains the focus and work of REST at Monday's Walhalla Rotary Club meeting.

November 4, 2009 - 10:55 p.m. EST "The Spirit of Oconee" monument, a gift of the Cherokee Bear Clan to the county, will officially be dedicated Saturday, Nov.

A West-Oak High School senior was killed Friday morning while driving to school in Oconee County.

Adam T. Pacek to Tiffany D. Norris, both of Seneca; Louis Edmund McLellan Jr. of Seneca to Dorothy Marguerete Martin of Baldwin, Ga.; Robert John Green to Melinda Gaye Wilhelmson, both of Seneca; John Robert Chandler to Betty Jean Hess, both of Seneca; Michael Brandon Barton to Heather Nicole Beebe, both of Seneca; Joshua Daniel Wilson to Jennifer ...

October 28, 2009 - 11:32 p.m. EST WALHALLA - An Oconee County man is undergoing a series of preventive inoculations after an encounter outside Walhalla with a raccoon that tested positive for rabies.

WALHALLA, S.C. An autopsy is scheduled for a 34-year-old South Carolina man who apparently died from electric related injuries.

October 30, 2009 - 11:43 p.m. EST The Palmetto Pointe marker off Highway 130 northeast of Keowee Key designates the proposed 13-acre site for a commercial marina with lodging, restaurant and store.

October 30, 2009 - 11:41 p.m. EST WALHALLA - Two years after arriving in Oconee County, Walhalla Fire Chief John Ekaitis is leaving the Golden Corner for the Lowcountry.

Clemson University senior nursing students, from left, Katy Atkins, Katy Fuller, Sarah Toms, Anne Farish, Heather Leroux, Mallory Musiel and Kaitlin O'Brien pose with Walhalla Middle School principal Chuck Middleton.

WALHALLA -- A South Carolina man has been arrested in the shooting death of his neighbor, who was found in his still-running pickup with a gunshot wound to his chest.

October 27, 2009 - 11:48 p.m. EST The current Walhalla High School, above will be the site of the Oconee County School Boarda s Nov.

October 26, 2009 - 11:08 p.m. EST Photo Cooper WALHALLA - A 59-year-old Walhalla man was arrested Saturday for allegedly breaking into a neighbora s home.

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, Oconee County Councilman Wayne McCall failed to get a second for a motion that would have required taking $6 million from the county's reserve funding and reducing the millage accordingly.

Solicitor Chrissy Adams said there's very little she or law enforcement officials can do when victims do not cooperate with investigations.

October 20, 2009 - 09:37 p.m. EST WALHALLA - There will apparently be no charges filed as a result of a jailhouse beating that sent one inmate to Oconee Medical Center for four days.

Steve Pruitt, director of the Oconee County Detention Center confirmed Monday. Chavez, 23, faces a murder charge after being arrested for the Oct.

October 15, 2009 - 10:02 p.m. EST WALHALLA - Privatizing the search for a new county administrator will cost Oconee in excess of $20,000, information submitted to Oconee County Council by five executive search firms shows.

WALHALLA -- A judge has found a South Carolina man accused of shooting his mother and stepfather to death not guilty by reason of insanity and committed him to a state mental hospital.