Category: News

A clothes dryer overheated this morning at a Mountain Rest home. No one reported hurt at a home near Turpin Road, but the minor fire damaged the vent to the dryer and singed a pair of electrical cords. According to one fire fighter, it’s a lesson to always keep dryers free of lint and to secure the hose attachments to […]

A 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon meeting has been set to talk about cutting back on the projected costs to remodel the near 40-year old operation and administrative facilities of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority at Seneca. The meeting was scheduled last night after five representatives of the general contractor met with the full JRSA board and disclosed total costs of […]

The Joint Regional Sewer Authority will approach Oconee County for a meeting this week to try to resolve issues over the operation and maintenance of Sewer South facilities. The sewer commissioners are hopeful they can meet with two county council members as early as Thursday or Friday, but Seneca’s Scott Moulder won’t be at the meeting table. Although Moulder said […]

Oconee County’s two re-elected members of the South Carolina House of Representatives are due back in Columbia tomorrow for re-organization. For Bill Sandifer of Seneca and Bill Whitmire of Walhalla, they and their colleagues will find out things like where they’ll sit during the sessions that starts in January—as well as on which the committees they will serve. Sandifer is […]

Here are Clemson traffic announcements for tomorrow’s parade and basketball game. Participants in the 2018 Clemson Christmas parade will line up on highway 93 for the procession from the President’s House at Cherry Road to Bowman Field. As a result, College Avenue and that section of 93 will be closed starting at 4:45 pm. Anyone attending the Clemson basketball game […]

The attorney for a North Carolina woman convicted in a Seneca criminal court proceeding will ask the 10th circuit court at Walhalla to set aside his client’s conviction and to dismiss the charge against her. A Seneca jury last month found Tori Diana Morton guilty of simple possession of marijuana while a passenger in a car fired on by the […]

The coroner says an elderly Walhalla woman who died last week was a passenger in an earlier single-car accident. Coroner Karl Addis says Betty Jo Moore, 79, died Thursday night under hospice care. Addis says she died of complications from the accident the afternoon of November 14 on the East Bear Swamp Road. The manner of her death is accidental.

At the grocery store, food labels often contain best buy dates and use by dates. But what do they really mean? Oconee County resident Ken Marsh clears up the confusion for us, as part of an interview that’s airing today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Marsh is a consultant to the food, pharmaceutical ad packaging industries and focuses on food security.

Curt Evatt succeeds Cecil Turner as the chairman of the Holdings Board at Oconee Memorial Hospital. In other elections, the board chose Angela Long and Lorraine Harding as new members. The board is made up of local and area residents who sit as the policymakers for the grounds of the hospital, to officially fall under the new health care provider, […]

Christmas arrives this week for students at two Oconee County elementary schools. College students from Clemson Hope, a student-led non-profit, will come bearing gifts to students at Westminster Elementary School and Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary. They’ll be at Westminster Elementary Wednesday and James Brown Friday.