Paper-based packing products supplier to expand to Anderson

Anderson’s Scotts Bridge Road will be the location of a Smurfit Kappa operation.  The company makes and supplies paper-based packing products.  Governor McMaster’s announcement states it’s going to take over a 259,000 square foot building, create 200 new jobs, and make a $68 million dollar investment.  South Carolina’s Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved job development credits for Smurfit Kappa’s […]

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“Project Cherry” to come to resolution?

Oconee County Council appears primed to picked fruit from a tree..  At its meeting next week, the council is scheduled to give first and final reading to a resolution of “preliminary approval” for an incentive agreement to attract an economic development investment that, for the time being, is code-named “Project Cherry.”  Preceding the passing of that resolution is a closed-door […]

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Tragedy in the Port Bass Community

On an Oconee Sheriff’s Office Facebook post, the following request made last night:  “Asking for continued prayers for our Deputy.  He is out of surgery and the next several hours are critical.”  The deputy, not identified by name, was shot at the end of a chase yesterday afternoon in the southern end of the county, at Black Bass Drive Road […]

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Two shot in southern Oconee

An officer-involved shooting occurred this afternoon in Oconee County.  According to Sheriff Crenshaw, one of his deputies has been sent to a Greenville hospital in critical condition; a suspect has also been shot.  This occurred during a week of a joint law enforcement operation in Oconee, in which the Oconee Sheriff’s Office is receiving help from Pickens County Sheriff’s Office.  […]

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Shirley Bazemore Saturday

Shirley Bazemore Saturday, 71, passed peacefully away from this life Wednesday November 15, 2023, at her home in Westminster, South Carolina. Born in Savannah, Georgia she is the daughter of Patricia Ann Bazemore and the late Franklin Delano Bazemore. Shirley had an extensive career in insurance management which included, Big Insurance Group, Bill Williams Insurance Agency. She also worked for […]

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Shooting South Union vicinity

101.7/WGOG NEWS is getting information to indicate there has been a shooting, apparently in the South Union community.  A Rock Hill Road resident tells us there have been several Oconee and Pickens sheriff’s cars in the vicinity of SC 11 and Spearman Road, and some of those squad cars have been seen moving at a fast speed.  Through another news […]

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Brush fire smoldering near Walhalla

The early morning brush fire north of Walhalla has been put out, but the scorched area still smoldering.  Fire fighters were awakened shortly before 4 o’clock this morning to calls for help at Fairfield and Capps roads.  A fire fighter told us this afternoon investigation is being made to determine why the fire started.  There’s no immediate estimate of how […]

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Ten Walhalla High students took part in Clemson contest

Ten Walhalla High students took part in this fall’s Clemson University Declamation Contest.  They were chaperoned by Walhalla English teacher Darlene Littlefield who has good personal memories of the declamation contest.  For it was November 20, 1972 that Littlefield won the contest reciting a poem by an Austrian literary artist.  “It was a great experience to be able to share […]

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