Singleton’s win to mean a full, 4-year term

101.7/WGOG NEWS makes the following correction in our story denoting Danny Singleton’s unopposed victory for Oconee Probate Judge:  The term that he shall start in January will entitle him to a full, four years.  An earlier post (and broadcast) incorrectly stated that Singleton sought to fill an unexpired term.  Former Judge Kenny Johns was suspended late last year from a […]

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“SWAT” call-out at Fair Play

A Fair Play man remains in custody today, at the Oconee County Detention Center, on two Temporary Custody Orders after deputies responded to a disturbance last night that led to the activation of the SWAT team.   47 year old Billy Arthur Barrier, of E. Fairplay Boulevard, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:10am this morning.   […]

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Discarding one judicial robe for another

Is the name Singleton becoming synonymous with Oconee County politics?  Just as the names of Hamilton and Cunningham were in years past.  Danny Singleton and members of his family gathered last night at county vote tabulating headquarters to watch his vote numbers pop up on the screen.  As if there was anything to worry about for Danny Singleton, a son […]

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“SWAT” activated in Fair Play

Further details are to be made known today about a “SWAT” activation late last evening in Fair Play community, where Oconee Sheriff’s officials say a situation was resolved peacefully.  One person was in custody in response to an investigation of a motor vehicle accident.  The “SWAT” response took place around a small home on the Durham Road.  One passerby reported […]

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Two of three incumbents returned

Seneca’s Bill Sandifer was able last night, on his ride home, the realization that he scored nearly 90% of the votes in his bid for a new, two-year term in Columbia as a senior member of the House who sits in seats of high authority in the law-making process of the state’s low chamber.  Republican Sandifer admitted to 101.7/WGOG NEWS […]

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Oconee’s votes are counted!

The unofficial results tonight show Seneca’s veteran state lawmaker, Bill Sandifer, took 88% of the vote — enroute to capturing a new, two-year term in the South Carolina House of Representatives.  Sandifer’s count was 10,836; while write-in votes (spurred by write-in candidate Perry Smith, accounted for 1,430.  In the two contested school trustee elections:  A new, 4-year term is in […]

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Nicole headed South Carolina’s Way

(key points for Nicole, as reported by the the South Carolina Severe Weather Climate Office: A Tropical Storm Watch and Storm Surge Watch are now in effect for the South Carolina coast south of the South Santee River. The forecast for Nicole has been shifted west and calls for Nicole to move faster since yesterday, changing the timing of impacts […]

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