Putting on the Ritz for the Georgia football Bulldogs

Toccoa, Georgia will offer a big screen opportunity next month for college football fans to regale the opening of a new gridiron season.  Toccoa’s Historic Ritz Theatre will big screen a coast-to-coast showdown between the defending national champs, the Georgia Bulldogs, and the University of Oregon Ducks. Doors will open at 2:30 Saturday afternoon, September 2 and the game starts […]

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Thursday key to transacting guilty pleas

This Thursday in the Oconee General Sessions Court at Walhalla is lining up as a key day for resolving criminal court cases, court officers have told 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Without a judge present, both prosecution and defense attorneys yesterday, we’re told, were successful in eliciting signed intentions from several defendants willing to stand before the court Thursday and admit their guilt […]

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Graham to contest order to testify

Prosecutors have informed Rudy Giuliani he is considered a target of the Georgia criminal investigation probing the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Giuliani is still expected to testify on Wednesday. Previously, 16 “fake electors” in the state were informed that they are considered targets of the probe. “I appeared in Georgia as attorney for Donald J. […]

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Overshadowing school day one

Overshadowing the superintendent’s upbeat account of day one to start Oconee’s ’22-’23 year, emotions ran high during the county trustees’ meeting where Dr. Thorsland felt compelled to mount a defense of how the district handled threatening social media posts by Walhalla Middle students last year not long after the Texas school shootings.  District Two trustee Meghan Ketterman’s voice broke as […]

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Elizabeth Kirlin

  Seneca- Elizabeth Ann Kirlin, 99, passed away Monday, August 15, 2022, at her residence.   Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Elizabeth was the daughter of the late, John O. Kirlin and Gertrude Brensinger Kirlin. Elizabeth worked as camp director for handicap children, and had a great passion for the outdoors, hiking, bird watching and traveling.   Elizabeth is survived by […]

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Durham extols idea of a sewer facility partnership

  Matthew Durham, the suspended Oconee County councilman, is touting the value of partnership with neighboring Anderson County to undertake a joint sewer treatment facility that would serve both sides of the I-85 corridor.  For long time, some Oconee leaders have ventured the thought that Oconee County growth can justify a second treatment plant—in addition to the Coneross Wastewater Plant […]

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The Great Pollinator Count

The citizens of South Carolina will be joining the Great Georgia Pollinator Census for the August 2022 count, expanding the reach of the pioneering project in the Southeast. University of Georgia Cooperative Extension launched the Great Georgia Pollinator Census in 2019 as a citizen science research project inviting Georgians from across the state to come together for two days in August to […]

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Rollover accident in Oakway

A car went out of control this morning in Oakway, left a two-lane road and overturned.  According to the state patrol, driver Amanda Elizabeth Feltman of Anderson was life-flighted, bound for a Greenville hospital.  Trooper Ridgeway said the 2004 Honda, driven by Feltman, went off the right side of the Oakway Road near SC 182, hit a mailbox, a ditch, […]

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Death announcement from the Oconee coroner

“The SC Highway Patrol had previously released information on a motorcyclist who died on August 12, 2022, several days after his involvement in a collision.   Stephen Law​less, age 52, of Seneca, was airlifted to Greenville Memorial on August 8, 2022 after a collision at the intersection of SC Highway 24 (West Oak Highway) and SC 59 (Tokeena Road).  Mr. […]

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Donna Swiger

Donna Swiger, 62, of formally of Easley, South Carolina, passed away on Monday, August 8, 2022 at Prisma Health Baptist Easley Hospital. Born on March 20, 1960 in West Union, West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Sharon Kerr and Kennth Lewis. After serving our country proudly and honorably in the United States Marine Corps, Ms. Swiger worked […]

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