Category: News

If the real Big Foot actually makes an appearance this month in Westminster, his every movement will be recorded by a camera in the air. The city council last night gave its blessing to a Walhalla man’s plans to fly a drone over the two-day festival that’ll pay homage to a mythical creature. Dale Glymph, festival organizer, introduced drone operator […]

Final touches are being placed on a master plan for a Seneca streetscape and road improvements. And that plan is now expected to reach the hands of the mayor and council during their work session at the end of the month. Scott Moulder says an outside company was tasked with coming up a plan for a streetscape from the EN […]

A meeting has taken place for Oconee County to be included in next year’s nationwide census that will give a snapshot of how much the county has grown in population and the various demographics that are associated with that. Adam Chapman, Oconee planner, took part in last week’s meeting that included representatives of the Census Bureau’s Atlanta office. The federal […]

Seneca’s Walnut Street rail crossing is closed for “several hours” today for what’s described as routine maintenance by Norfolk Southern. From what Police Chief John Covington has learned, there will be other such closings as the railroad company works thru its maintenance schedule. Covington said, “We do not know in advance but they do make us aware of closings as […]

The outward growth from Clemson into neighboring Oconee is seen as reason for planners on both sides of the Seneca River to get acquainted, even to break bread. And there is to be unprecedented meeting this month in Clemson of both the Clemson Planning Commission and the Oconee County Planning Commission. Adam Chapman, Oconee planner, says when it comes to […]

City of Walhalla has jobs to fill. Councilman Dennis Owens, one of the city’s mayoral candidates, told 101.7/WGOG NEWS this morning there are openings in both the police and public works departments. Salary was the deciding factor for two Walhalla police officers who left for better paying jobs in Seneca, according to Sean Brinson, Walhalla police chief. Brinson said his […]

Oconee County Administrator Amanda Brock announced Monday that Annie Caggiano, project manager for the South Carolina Department of Commerce, has accepted the offer to be the county’s new economic development director. Caggiano began her 16-year career in economic development as the Director of Research for the Central SC Alliance. For eight years, she worked with a team of local developers representing […]

The Oconee County Chamber of Commerce Excellence in Leadership Award will go to long-time hospital leader Jeanne Ward.  The award will be presented during a chamber membership luncheon to take place Monday, November 4 at the Lighthouse Restaurant on Lake Keowee.  A former Pennsylvanian, Ward embarked on a nursing career at the Oconee Memorial Hospital in the 1970s.  But her […]

If you ventured Saturday into the Greenville County city of Travelers Rest, you’d have every right to wonder what the excitement was all about.  Traffic was bumper to bumper on the main street leading from the highway out of town and parking spots were at a premium.  Vendors were hawking their crafts and the cool day lent itself for biking […]

A tractor trailer truck caught fire early this morning on I-85 in Oconee County and the driver attempted to stop the fire with an extinguisher.  Something apparently caught fire under the trailer.  Volunteers from the Fair Play Fire Department and other public safety workers responded to the fire scene shortly after 1:30 this morning at the one mile marker in […]