Category: News

“Hub” opponent Catherine Watt hopes to head off final approval tonight for the controversial residential-commercial project in Clemson.  Watt says, “I will be making a motion to send the proposal back to Planning Commission for 4 weeks so we can do one last evaluation based on what we’ve learned over the past two months.  Will see who agrees.  We owe […]

Inside the cafetorium of the new Seneca Middle School, about 200 people heard Oconee’s economic development recruiter predict announcements of new investments in the county are not far away.  Jamie Gilbert of Oconee Economic Alliance says three pending announcements go before the county council this week and the county is one of four finalists for a project, the decision on […]

A Sunday afternoon I-85 accident in Anderson County took the life of 20-year-old motorcyclist Zackary Michael Stelk, a Simpsonville resident.  Coroner Greg Shore said the accident on 85 northbound near mile marker 20.5 occurred when Stelk’s motorcycle ran into the back of a pickup truck.  Stelk was thrown from the motorcycle.

A 20-year-old Mount Pleasant woman has died at a Greenville hospital, after a midnight hour accident yesterday in Clemson.  Chief Deputy Coroner Wilson of Pickens County said the accident that cost the life of Caroline Deer occurred at Old Stone Church Road near Ridgecrest Drive.  According to the coroner’s account, the vehicle went off Old Stone Church Road and overturned, […]

Today’s the birthdate for WGOG.  This radio station went on the air 65 years ago at this same Westminster Highway location, in what one of our early announcers remembered to have been a cotton patch, not far from a drive-in movie theatre.

A late Friday night accident near Seneca took the life of a 32-year-old pedestrian.  Coroner Addis identified Fair Play resident Geena Elizabeth Ferguson the fatality around 9:30 last night about one mile from the city limits.  Investigating state troopers reported the accident on the Carson Road, about midway between 123 and the Shiloh Road, involved the pedestrian and the operator […]

Veteran members of the board of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative have been returned to the policymaking board of the electric power supplier.  By outpolling Heath Haskett, Jimmy Dodgens was declared a winner; as was Frank Looper in defending his seat against challenger Jason Ambrose Dennis.  Both Dodgens and Looper represent Pickens County.  Blue Ridge’s two-day drive-thru annual meeting registered […]

Whether to work, play, or invest, Oconee, known as the Golden Corner of the state, was extolled today as the place to be by a lineup of speakers at the annual State of Oconee luncheon.  The setting was the cafetorium in a new public school building in Seneca, which is scheduled to receive its first students in August.  Nevertheless, for […]

Liberty road paver King Asphalt is in line for a $6.7 million Oconee County road work contract.  A recommendation to award the job of paving  22 miles of county roads as part of a multi-year contract is an agenda item next week for the county council.  Of 13 companies notified of the opportunity to bid for the work, only two […]

To help Oconee school trustees reach a decision, the district authorized an appraisal of the existing Seneca Middle School building and property.  The appraiser, according to associate superintendent Steve Hanvey, pegs the value, as is, at $1.85 million.  Should the building be demolished, the value then would be $1 million.  Look for the county trustees to decide what happens to […]