Category: News

This is Move-In Week for new and returning students at Clemson University.  Classes start Wednesday, August 18.  The new class of first-year undergraduates is expected to number 4,600.  That incoming class represents 48 states and two countries, along with 270 high schools across South Carolina.  More than 700 in the class are the first persons in their family to attend […]

A new, 4-way stop intersection is in the offing in Clemson.  The city is announcing that on Tuesday, August 24 the intersections of Rock Creek Road, Cedar Lane, and Ridgeview Drive will become a 4-way stop intersection.

Walhalla’s Wayne Garland is in Monson, Maine this afternoon and faces a difficult stretch of the last leg of his Appalachian Trail hike.  Small town Monson is known as the start of what’s considered 100 miles of wilderness, and Garlands expects he’ll need a few more weeks to finish.  Now, retired and in his mid 70s, Garland says he’s feeling […]

South Carolina DHEC released three days of COVID-19 tracking this afternoon, to cover Thursday through Saturday.  Deaths to the virus which has surged from the delta variant were 10 reported Thursday; six reported Friday; and eight reported Saturday.  Saturday’s eight included two Pickens County residents.  In three days of reports, there were no Oconee County deaths, although Thursday’s report included […]

An outbreak of COVID-19 among employees in the office of Oconee Treasurer has shortened available staff and has resulted in the temporary closing of the Pine Street office for in-person payments, 101.7/WGOG NEWS learned this morning from a source within county government.  However, taxpayers doing business with the treasurer’s office have other options including mail payments and the drive-thru which […]

Prisma Health will limit visitation at all hospital and clinical facilities starting Monday, Aug. 9, due to the increasing rate of COVID-19 infections. Adult inpatients, outpatients and ambulatory pediatric patients will be limited to one visitor. These restrictions also will continue: Visitors must wear a mask covering their nose and mouth (no gaiters or vented masks). Visitors will be screened […]

The school year in Stephens County, Georgia was only a few days old when word came that the county superintendent was being re-assigned.  Quoting a news release on Friday, Toccoa Radio WNEG announced that Dr. Daniel Oldham was re-assigned from superintendent to the position of transitional coordinator.  The county board of education expressed appreciation to Oldham, but said it wants […]

At the new “Memory Café” in Walhalla the menu offers a lot for the soul.  Church-based Memory Café is a free program for those with any form of dementia.  The program has the dual benefit of helping those who care for dementia individuals.  Heading up this program at the St. Luke United Methodist Church is Bonnie Holmes.  She started a […]

Middle and high school students in Oconee County see their summer recess come to an end this week, with first day of classes for the new academic year on Wednesday this week.  That means, according to the state patrol, an appreciable increase in week day traffic, especially those yellow school buses.  On 101.7/WGOG NEWS today, trooper Joe Hovis stresses the […]

The Oconee County treasurer, Greg Nowell, announces the temporary closing of the Pine Street office of the county treasurer for in-person payments.  Tax payments are being accepted online, over the telephone, by mail, and through the drive-thru.  The drive-thru operates 8:30 am to 5 pm weekdays.  Nowell’s announcement gives no reason for the temporary closing.  All other county offices remain […]