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The doors are open at Pine Street until 6 tonight, allowing qualified voters to cast ballots in early voting. By the 10 o’clock hour this morning, 8,465 Oconeeans had voted early – or 11% of all who are eligible. What are Oconee Republican and Democrat leaders saying with three days before the midterm elections? 101.7/WGOG NEWS sampled some opinion. And […]
Read moreSeneca, SC — Jane Rankin McPhail, 81, wife of the late John Stephen McPhail, of Seneca, passed away on Friday, November 4, 2022, at Rainey Hospice House, in Anderson, SC. A native of Oconee County, SC, Mrs. McPhail was the daughter of the late Walter Eugene and Irene Chamblin Rankin. She was a retired kindergarten teacher with the SDOC […]
Read moreJackie Robinson of Cairo, Georgia and Marv Rackley of Oconee County, South Carolina were teammates on the Brooklyn Dodgers when Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947. They also were teammates earlier on the Dodgers’ Montreal farm team. In one season, one of them stole 65 bases. Can you guess which one? It was Rackley and that’s where, it’s believed, […]
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Westminster truly used to be one of those American towns where a great deal of life revolved around a major employer. Chances are if you lived in Westminster and the surrounding area, either you worked at the large textile plant or had a family member work there or, at the least, you knew someone employed there. But at the turn […]
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A board which serves an advisory role to the Walhalla City Council will have a say in whether the city adopts an historic preservation ordinance. The proposed ordinance will be placed on Monday’s agenda of the city planning commission. The meeting is 5:30 pm at city hall. Under purpose, the ordinance gives six reasons why it’s time for Oconee’s seat […]
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Minutes and seconds can make the difference between life and death when a shooter invades a school. And next week Oconee County public safety agencies, along with the public schools, will conduct a table top exercise. The three-hour training session on Tuesday morning at the Hamilton Career Center is considered pro-active and not the result of any threat related to […]
Read moreAn incident linked to a domestic altercation has taken one life in Anderson and left a second person wounded by gunfire. Greg Shore, the Anderson County coroner, says Martiz Shermaine Williams was found around 7:30 on the ground in the front yard of his home on Plantation Road. The death of 32-year old Williams has been ruled a homicide. According […]
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Restrictions apply on using property adjacent to lakefront property managed by the Army Corps of Engineers. At next week’s city council meeting in Clemson, the council will be asked to approve an ordinance to allow single-family homes to have their setbacks lowered to five feet where the home properties abut ACOE land. “This amendment”, according to Monday night’s agenda, “would […]
Read moreWest Union, SC — Frankie Kelley Arve, 91, wife of the late William Arve, of 316 Torrington Road, West Union, SC, entered her heavenly home on November 2nd, 2022. Frankie is survived by her son, Dennis Frasier and wife Jane, of Walhalla, SC, daughter: Kellie Hitzler of West Union, SC; grandchildren: Denise Powell (Mark) of Sugar Grove, […]
Read moreThree people in line at a Walhalla restaurant wore “I Voted” stickers. It’s likely sign that they are among the thousands of Oconee voters who’ve cast early ballots for the November General Election. The state Election Commission reported today the record for most voters voting early in one day was broken again with almost 50 thousand ballots cast yesterday at […]
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