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Seneca, SC— Mrs. Jeanette Nichols Burrell, 86, wife of the late Verner Clarence Burrell, of Walhalla, SC, passed away Saturday, August 4, 2017, at GHS Cottingham Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Tuesday, August 8, 2017, at College Street Baptist Church, with burial to follow at Oconee Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6:00–8:00 […]
Read moreMountain Rest, SC— Julia Hunter Nicholson, 88, wife of the late Woodrow Nicholson, of 150 Nicholson Ford Road, Mountain Rest, passed away Thursday, August 3, 2017, at GHS Cottingham Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted at 4:00 PM, Monday, August 7, 2017, at Bethlehem Baptist Church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends […]
Read moreWestminster-Rodney Keaton, 54, husband of Angela Harvell Keaton, of 398 Chauga Road passed away Friday, August 4, 2017 at Oconee Memorial Hospital. Graveside services will be held 11 am, Monday, August 7, 2017 at Heritage Memorial Gardens. Flowers are accepted or donations in his memory may be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058. […]
Read moreA squirrel that interfered with electric power transmission in Seneca is blamed for the Saturday morning outage that temporarily took out service for about one-half of the customer base. Bob Faires, utilities superintendent, displayed a photo of the casualty–a fried rodent. The outage took out traffic lights at several intersections, including 123 and E-N 1st Street where the police hand-waved […]
Read moreLast night’s rain storms came with a price. Oconee County Dispatch reports several electric power outages. Westminster the hardest hit.
Read moreAn autopsy disclosed that drowning was the cause for the death Friday of an Anderson woman in Lake Keowee. Barbara Lynn Malone was 62 years old. Oconee Coroner Karl Addis said did not sustain any apparent medical issue that could be seen at autopsy to explain why she went unresponsive. Her body was found in waist-deep water near the Keowee Sailing Club. […]
Read moreA 62-year old Anderson woman died at the GHS-Oconee Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon after she was pulled from shallow water in Lake Keowee and found unresponsive. She was Barbara Lynn Malone. Coroner Karl Addis says an autopsy tomorrow will help determine whether a medical event caused Malone to go underwater. She and two of her friends were wading in the […]
Read moreThe DOT has announced the re-opening of a section of Seneca’s N. Townville Street with the completion of sinkhole repairs. The discovery of a sinkhole forced the closing of N. Townville between 3rd and 4th streets.
Read morePublic safety responders pulled a swimmer from Lake Keowee this afternoon and started CPR before the woman was sent to the hospital. There’s no confirmed word on her condition. A responder told 101.7/WGOG NEWS the location was about four feet of water near the Keowee Sailing Club on SC 130 near Seneca.
Read moreFire today has displaced two people from their home in Mountain Rest on the Village Creek Road. According to Shane Gibbs, Oconee Fire Marshall, the trouble at the home began this morning with a grease fire in the kitchen. That fire apparently damaged electrical wiring in the home. According to Gibbs, it was discovered later that a second related fire […]
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