Category: News

The owner of two existing Seneca businesses will take over a former supermarket building in the downtown and re-locate one of them there.  Details of the deal between the city of Seneca and businessman Ray Murphy were announced and approved last evening at a meeting of the Seneca Improvements Corporation.  For the SIC, the deal will mean $350 thousand.  Josh […]

New South Carolina COVID cases reported yesterday by DHEC numbered 527.  The one-day death toll reported by DHEC was 22, including the death Monday of an elderly Oconeean.  A total of 44 new cases were reported in Oconee County.  The total number of individual test results reported to DHEC Monday was 4,007 and the positivity was 13.2%.  Clemson University chipped […]

The School District of Oconee County released a statement this afternoon through their Public Information Officer, Jennifer Dodd, on the passing of School Board Chairman Jerry Lee.   We are aware of the passing of Mr. Jerry Lee, our school board chairman.  We are incredibly sad for Mr. Lee’s family and all those who knew him.  Our thoughts and prayers […]

An addition to the resources of the Westminster Library can serve as a tool to whet the appetite of children to want to read.  The Westminster Branch has added a new collection of children’s over-sized books, thanks to a donation by family and friends of Joy Moore, a Westminster resident who enjoyed reading and visiting the library.  The Joy Moore […]

  A set of builder’s plans to replace a Seneca home destroyed by the April 13 tornado received approval last night by the city’s Board of Architectural Review.  The board acted on Pelfrey Builders application to build a new home at 411 S. Townville on property owned by Rhonda Hartman and Geraldine Bryant.  In a separate vote, the board approved […]

The Walhalla main branch of the Oconee Library will close at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon for power repairs to the building.

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned a settlement could be reached in a few months in a four-year old case alleging wrongful death of a Chattooga River rafter.  According to an Oconee court officer, paperwork awaits a judge’s ruling to settle the case of the estate of a Florida man against a rafting company and two of its guides.  The estate of […]

A late night shooting at a Seneca apartment complex wounded one person, and the incident today remains a continuing investigation by the police.  Chief John Covington said the individual, not identified by name, suffered a gunshot wound to the hip area.  The victim has not cooperated with the police as to what happened, according to Covington.  The gun shot was […]

In meetings last night and again tonight, Westminster City Council is interviewing potential candidates for city administrator.  The job opened four months ago at the resignation of Chris Carter.  Previously, city leaders thought they had a replacement, but the preferred candidate dropped out.  Long time City Hall worker Rebecca Overton is serving as interim administrator.

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has reached out to the area’s college presidents to learn how their institutions handle and address issues of equity and cultural diversity.  And this morning Dr. Todd Voss, president of Southern Wesleyan University, will address a meeting of sheriff’s personnel, to be followed in succeeding months by the presidents of Anderson University and Tri-County Technical College.  […]