Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee County customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative are invited to a meeting next week to nominate a candidate to run for the Blue Ridge board to serve in the capacity as Oconee County representative.  In play is the seat now held by Len Talley, who is seeking re-election.  The meeting takes place at 10 o’clock Monday morning, March […]

Coroner Karl Addis has identified the victims of last night’s two home fires in Oconee County.  The body of Mark Anthony Land, 49, was found by fire fighting personnel at the 195 Seneca Creek Road fire scene near the Oconee Airport.  The two victims of the home fire near Walhalla at 201 Brooksmore Road are, according to Addis, presumed to […]

  West Union, SC— Billy Ray Wald, 76, husband of Lucy Oliver Wald, of 759 Ebenezer Road, West Union, passed away Sunday, February 26, 2017, at GHS Cottingham Hospice House. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at Davenport Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Heritage Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends […]

Groundbreaking took place today in Central for a housing community to serve those with special needs and disabilities.  Each of 11 residents at the Jericho Project is to be mentored and assisted by the students at Southern Wesleyan University.  Making possible the project:  Southern Wesleyan University, the boards of Disabilities and Special Needs in both Pickens and Anderson counties.  The […]

WGOG will leave the air temporarily this afternoon to accommodate the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative as it connects a new customer on the Westminster Highway.  We apologize to listeners who will be inconvenienced.  WGOG expects to be off the air for 30 minutes—likely between 1 and 1:30.  However, Blue Ridge has reserved a two hour period, from 1 to 3, […]

Earlier this month the Oconee Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a 24-year old man on charges of attempted murder and other offenses as the result of shootings during the weekend of February 11-12 at a Brock Road home near Westminster and later near the Blackjack Road and the Greenfield Road.  That man was identified as Coax Arnold Sanford V.  […]

Investigators have returned this morning to the scene of a mobile home fire that left two people dead last night near Walhalla.  The Walhalla fire chief, Brandon Burton, says so far, “nothing suspicious” has turned up on Brooksmore Road in trying to nail down a cause for the fire.  The coroner, Karl Addis, is expected to announce the identities of […]

The annual Hospice of the Foothills Christmas Tree Festival raised a record high of $167,817.96.  The festival is now in its 13th year.  Festival co-chair Edna Rider said, “We are thrilled that so many people in our community love the Christmas Tree Festival and look forward to supporting it every year.  People love to support GHS Hospice of the Foothills […]

Staff at a regional government service agency will advise Walhalla leaders as to the course to take to fill the city’s top job at City Hall.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that Walhalla leaders will speak to representatives of the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments in Greenville as they go about replacing Nancy Goehle, who will retire as Walhalla’s long-time […]

Salem has set the field for a special town council election.  On April 11, Salem will ask its voters to trek to the Salem Community Center to fill a vacancy on the four-member council.  At the deadline Friday, the candidates were Judy Hines and Vickie Towe.  Hines and Towe seek to fill the unexpired term created by the recent death […]