Woman jailed after chase from Greenville to Oconee

A 26-year old Seneca area woman was confined yesterday to the Oconee jail, after she allegedly led police on a chase that started on Greenville’s White Horse Road, thru Pickens County, and finishing in her home county of Oconee.  According to authorities, Steve Nix Road resident Rachel Nichole Parsons was charged with eight offenses:  reckless driving; fail to stop for […]

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A physician’s worry for the spreading virus

Notwithstanding the Supreme Court ruling yesterday that dealt a setback to the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test requirement on large private businesses, Prisma Health doctors in South Carolina again stress the basic precautions that everyone should follow to help eradicate the spread of COVID-19.  A Prisma Health physician in the Midlands, Dr. Ahuja is especially worried if the virus, spurred by the […]

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“Get ready for Sunday” weather

Confidence grows on the part of forecasters that the storm headed east from Pacific Northwest and western Canada will affect much of South Carolina, especially Oconee County and the mountains; however, they are now less confident that it will be the big snowstorm speculated earlier.  Frank Straight at the South Carolina Climate Office in Columbia says Upstate snow lovers will […]

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Validity to the unrelenting COVID-19

Large numbers in today’s COVID-19 report from South Carolina DHEC.  New cases of the virus approached 10 and one-half thousand for the 24-hour ending Tuesday night.  Of the newly confirmed 10,412 virus cases statewide, 201 were Oconee County people.  DHEC recorded one additional probable Oconee death case.  There were two new confirmed deaths of Pickens County residents; three new confirmed […]

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Vaccine numbers still hold better protection

Across Prisma Health’s Upstate and Midlands service area (including the Oconee Memorial Hospital at Seneca) there are new COVID-19 hospital numbers.  They were released today in tandem with a lengthy zoom conference that included multiple Prisma Health doctors.  By today, 628 people remained in the hospital.  Of that number, 22% are vaccinated; 78% are not.  Some of those patients, though […]

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DNR announces weather-related road closures

All roads within the Jim Timmerman Natural Resources Area at Jocassee Gorges in northern Pickens County will be closed by the SC DNR tomorrow, in anticipation of significant snow accumulation this weekend.  This includes roads from the Laurel Valley entrance on US 178, Camp Adger Road at US 178 and roads at the Shooting Tree Range location on Cleo Chapman […]

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Death charge postponed for trial in March

A court officer says, by an order of a continuance, the state’s death charge against a Seneca man has been postponed from next week until a General Sessions court term in March.  101.7/WGOG NEWS learned that the solicitor’s office earlier this week had been making preparations to call the case of Mack Adam Gaines for next week’s, four-day term of […]

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Word spreads of independent school demise

A TV report and social media are reporting that Salem’s charter school, the Next School at Eagle Ridge, is closing.  Mayor Towe of Salem is reserving comment at this time because neither he nor town hall has been officially notified. Word has it that both the Salem school and Next School’s Greenville location are closing.

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