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‘Community Sound Off’ — the weekly public affairs program on 101.7/WGOG — is moving to a new time and day: Saturday mornings, following the 7 o’clock ABC NEWS. The switch from Sundays to Saturdays takes effect this Saturday, November 12.
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A partnership of Prisma Health and Habitat for Humanity are blitzing today across five counties to build nine homes. One of the locations is Seneca. The nine locations target Clemson, Greenville, Seneca, Sumter, and West Columbia. The home sites are in varying stages of construction that range from framing to ready-to-paint inside and out. While none of the homes will […]
Read moreA woods fire broke out around 8 last night in Oconee County. Fire fighters rolled their trucks and equipment to Ridgecrest Drive near SC 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway and required three hours at the scene to put a stop to the fire. According to one estimate, the fire may have consumed 1.5 acres.
Read moreOconee, Anderson, and Pickens are among 14 South Carolina counties that remain at incipient drought, in the judgment of the state Drought Response Committee. The committee upgraded 17 counties to a higher drought level, but decided to wait to evaluate the potential effect of tropical storm Nicole before considering further changes. Rainfall has been below normal the past 30 days. […]
Read moreThe likelihood of showers has forced cancellation tonight of Winter City Nights in Seneca. Announcement is expected by the noon hour tomorrow from the office of Oconee Veterans Affairs on whether the Veteran’s Day parade will proceed or be cancelled.
Read more101.7/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 […]
Read moreA Tropical Storm Warning and Storm Surge Watch are in effect for the South Carolina coast south of the South Santee River. There has been little change to the forecast since yesterday evening, and confidence has grown in the forecast track and intensity for Nicole. Concern for isolated tornadoes has increased over most of the state, starting in the Lowcountry […]
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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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A woman from Toccoa, Georgia has been implicated in prostitution activity in a nearby Georgia county. A report by Toccoa’s WNEG quotes the sheriff of Banks County as saying prostitution, the selling of one’s body for sex, will not be tolerated. Banks County deputies arrested Alicia Nicole Peacock, 39, of Toccoa and Kitana Taiee Mathis, 23, of Athens, on charges […]
Read moreIs 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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