Plans set for Farm to Table Dinner

Plans are set for this year’s Farm to Table Dinner in Oconee County. This year’s event will be 5:30 to 7:30 pm Monday, September 24 at the South Carolina Heritage Fair Grounds on the Sandifer Boulevard. The Oconee Chamber of Commerce is selling tickets at $30 dollars a plate and includes admittance to this year’s South Carolina Heritage Fair. Preparing […]

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Charlie Vissage is Firefighter of the Year

A multi-talented Walhalla firefighter was an award winner during an appreciation dinner last night at a Lake Keowee restaurant. Charlie Vissage received Firefighter of the Year during the first Oconee Municipal Public Safety Appreciation Dinner. A 16-year member of the Walhalla Fire Department, Vissage has shown leadership qualities in training recruits. He, along with another off-duty firefighter, was instrumental in […]

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Weekend Rainfall Totals

9/17/18 The remnants of Hurricane Florence, which passed through our area as mainly a tropical depression, left behind a little over half an inch of rainfall at Hickory Hollow Farm near Walhalla, according to official US weather observer, Barbara Wilson. Wilson reported an official amount of 41 hundreths of an inch of rain on Sunday, and 14 hundreths on Saturday, […]

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Railroad Trestle Incident

WGOG News has learned that the Clemson Police Department is investigating an incident of a person allegedly going off the Lake Hartwell railroad trestle parallel to the Highway 123 bridge at the Pickens and Oconee county line near Clemson. The incident apparently happened Sunday. No further details are available at this time.

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Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Announces Department Promotions

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announced departmental promotions Friday in all five divisions of the Sheriff’s Office. The promotions are due to some retirements at the Sheriff’s Office as well as the addition of eight new School Resource Officers. Here the list of the promotions with the deputy’s names and Divisions: Criminal Investigations Division/Community Services Roy McKenzie – Corporal/School Resource […]

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Distinction for Seneca Judge Danny Singleton

Seneca’s Danny Singleton will lead the South Carolina Summary Court Judges Association. Singleton, the Seneca municipal judge since 1998, was elected this month as president of the statewide group of magistrates and municipal judges. He became the first municipal judge in the history of the association to be elected association president. The group numbers more than 500 members and strives […]

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