Oconee County’s Chattooga Belle Farm is featured in the 2013 Innova Disc Golf Calendar. Hole 8 will be the November featured picture. Disc golf promoter Adam Wright has entered pictures in the calendar contest. Each year about eight thousand copies of the calendar are sold. Oconee County received its first disc golf course in 2004.…
Airing today on 96.3/WGOG NEWS is our second and final part of an interview with Lt. Col. Scott Moore, Army serviceman stationed in Afghanistan and hometown Mountain Rest, S.C.
Oconee County has announced the opening of a new fire substation. Foxwood Hills Fire Substation #23 at 1600 Blackjack Road is the second of eight stations to be built, as part of the county’s fire service improvement plan. It will house a single engine company and a reserve engine to serve residents and businesses located…
A judge has denied bond for a fourth man arrested in the investigation of the murder December 8 of Clemson student Steven Grich. Authorities say Lester Devaria Mosley Jr., 18, of Central was arrested Friday evening at a motel in Toccoa, Georgia. According to WNEG in Toccoa, Sheriff Randy Shirley of Stephens County learned, through…
If your holiday plans include a trip to the North Carolina or Tennessee Mountains, be aware of possible traffic delays. The North Carolina Department of Transportation says one of the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 near the Tennessee State line is closed. A Friday night rock slide dumped several tons of rocks onto I-40 near…
The Jocassee Gorges is getting some international attention. National Geographic magazine has named Jocassee Gorges one of “50 of the World’s Last Great Places-Destinations of a Lifetime.” Mark Hall, the land Manager of the Gorges calls the recognition an honor. Hall says “We have one of the great wild places on our planet.” The four-page…
