Category: News

According to information received by 101.7/WGOG, part of U-S 76 at Long Creek was closed yesterday afternoon as public safety responders worked the scene of a pickup truck accident.  One person is said to have been flown for medical treatment.  The Anderson County coroner has announced that, days after the accident, the death of Michael Lee Thomason of Mauldin.  Coroner […]

The Oconee Veterans Council will lay a wreath at the War Memorial on the Main Street side of the county courthouse during this year’s Memorial Day event to remember 209 Oconeeans who gave their lives in the country’s wars and conflicts.  The public is invited to attend:  starting at 12 noon Memorial Day, Monday, May 31.  Once the wreath is […]

The best of Oconee’s three senior classes will hear from a television news anchor when the honor graduates are celebrated next week in an event that will take place at 7:30 pm Tuesday, May 25 at West-Oak High School.  Originally planned for the football stadium, the ceremony will now move indoors into the school gym.  The reason: the predicted high […]

Here are numbers from today’s South Carolina DHEC report: 181 new cases of COVID-119 confirmed statewide, including two in Oconee County. The names of 10 more South Carolinians go on the death list, including a middle-aged Anderson County resident who died last Saturday and an elderly Pickens County resident who died last Friday.  Of 7,148 test results, the new South […]

In another sign of a return to normal, the Oconee General Sessions Court will welcome a jury pool next week for the May term of criminal court.  Judge Scott Sprouse will preside.  The circuit solicitor’s office has announced a trial docket of five cases.  At the top of the docket is a case alleging breach of trust with fraudulent intent.  […]

A pair of assault charges has been placed against a 45-year old Oconee County man, in two separate investigations by the county sheriff’s office.  In one of the incidents, the victim walked through vines and briars to escape and wound up seeking help at the Friendship Volunteer Fire Department near Seneca.

Two people were placed under arrest today after the Walhalla police investigated a disturbance earlier at the Highland Glen apartments.  Charges of assault and battery were placed against a man and a woman.

A nursing home near Seneca was named defendant this week in two lawsuits alleging negligence and seeks $100 million in damages.  The lawsuit naming SSC Seneca Operating Company, doing business at Seneca Health and Rehabilitation, was filed in the Common Pleas Court by an Anderson attorney on behalf of Betty J. Hanvey, daughter of the late Maybell Webb.  Other defendants […]

Oconee County School District is spreading awareness of the following announcement today from the federal government: “The Emergency Broadband Benefit is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program to help families and households struggling to afford internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Emergency Broadband Benefit will provide a discount of up to $50 per month towards broadband service for eligible […]

Two principals at two Oconee County elementary schools are retiring at year’s end next month, and the district must find their replacements.  Sherrie McAlister will retire from Westminster Elementary School.  The man considered the dean of Oconee principals, Geoff Smith, leaves Seneca’s Northside Elementary School after 22 years.