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A woods fire broke out around 8 last night in Oconee County. Fire fighters rolled their trucks and equipment to Ridgecrest Drive near SC 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway and required three hours at the scene to put a stop to the fire. According to one estimate, the fire may have consumed 1.5 acres.
Read moreOconee, Anderson, and Pickens are among 14 South Carolina counties that remain at incipient drought, in the judgment of the state Drought Response Committee. The committee upgraded 17 counties to a higher drought level, but decided to wait to evaluate the potential effect of tropical storm Nicole before considering further changes. Rainfall has been below normal the past 30 days. […]
Read moreThe likelihood of showers has forced cancellation tonight of Winter City Nights in Seneca. Announcement is expected by the noon hour tomorrow from the office of Oconee Veterans Affairs on whether the Veteran’s Day parade will proceed or be cancelled.
Read more101.7/WGOG NEWS makes the following correction in our story denoting Danny Singleton’s unopposed victory for Oconee Probate Judge: The term that he shall start in January will entitle him to a full, four years. An earlier post (and broadcast) incorrectly stated that Singleton sought to fill an unexpired term. Former Judge Kenny Johns was suspended late last year from a […]
Read moreA Tropical Storm Warning and Storm Surge Watch are in effect for the South Carolina coast south of the South Santee River. There has been little change to the forecast since yesterday evening, and confidence has grown in the forecast track and intensity for Nicole. Concern for isolated tornadoes has increased over most of the state, starting in the Lowcountry […]
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A Fair Play man remains in custody today, at the Oconee County Detention Center, on two Temporary Custody Orders after deputies responded to a disturbance last night that led to the activation of the SWAT team. 47 year old Billy Arthur Barrier, of E. Fairplay Boulevard, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:10am this morning. […]
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A woman from Toccoa, Georgia has been implicated in prostitution activity in a nearby Georgia county. A report by Toccoa’s WNEG quotes the sheriff of Banks County as saying prostitution, the selling of one’s body for sex, will not be tolerated. Banks County deputies arrested Alicia Nicole Peacock, 39, of Toccoa and Kitana Taiee Mathis, 23, of Athens, on charges […]
Read moreIs the name Singleton becoming synonymous with Oconee County politics? Just as the names of Hamilton and Cunningham were in years past. Danny Singleton and members of his family gathered last night at county vote tabulating headquarters to watch his vote numbers pop up on the screen. As if there was anything to worry about for Danny Singleton, a son […]
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Further details are to be made known today about a “SWAT” activation late last evening in Fair Play community, where Oconee Sheriff’s officials say a situation was resolved peacefully. One person was in custody in response to an investigation of a motor vehicle accident. The “SWAT” response took place around a small home on the Durham Road. One passerby reported […]
Read moreSeneca’s Bill Sandifer was able last night, on his ride home, the realization that he scored nearly 90% of the votes in his bid for a new, two-year term in Columbia as a senior member of the House who sits in seats of high authority in the law-making process of the state’s low chamber. Republican Sandifer admitted to 101.7/WGOG NEWS […]
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