Author: Dick Mangrum

Residents of southern Oconee are invited to mark their calendars for a public event next month with the county’s Sheriff-elect. Mike Crenshaw, who takes office January 1, will be featured at a “meet-and-greet” sponsored by the Voice of Southern Oconee at 7 o’clock Monday night, December 10 at the South Union Baptist Church. According to a representative of VOSO, the […]

Congressman Jeff Duncan is one of 97 members of Congress who have signed a letter urging President Obama to reject Susan Rice as a nominee for Secretary of State. In a statement, Duncan, the Third District S.C. Republican, alleges Rice, as the U-S Ambassador to Libya, “either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter.” Specifically, Duncan […]

Seneca’s planning commissioners have decided that town homes would be a poor fit on fewer than two acres that slope downward from By-Pass 123 to Lake Keowee. They voted 6-0 last night to reject an application by the property owners to change the property from highway commercial to RM-16. Of 25 audience members opposed, six of the opponents spoke. Much […]

Four vehicles were involved in an accident late this morning in Seneca. According to the police, two people were sent to the hospital to be evaluated. The accident apparently began when one vehicle headed west on W. N. 1st Street slowed to turn onto N. Perkins Creek Road, which caused a chain-like accident from the rear.

For the third time, the Tigers-Gamecocks rivalry is going green. This Saturday’s game at Clemson Memorial Stadium will be powered 100% by in-state renewable energy from Blue Ridge Electric Co-op and Santee Cooper Green Power. Clemson University has teamed with the power providers to ensure that all the electricity needs of the big game will be met by green power. […]

Motorists are telling 96.3/WGOG NEWS they are being detoured around the scene of an accident.  That accident took place on W.N. 1st Street.  Ambulances have been seen among the responding vehicles.

The police at Seneca have filed charges in an eight-month investigation of a home burglary. City officers drove yesterday to Stephens County, Georgia and picked up Jonathan Allen Finney and charged the 31-year old Townville resident with burglary second degree and petty larceny. According to Captain Jeremy Rothell, Major of Operations, Finney is charged with the crimes March 13 at […]

Legal counsel for Oconee County will enter a courtroom next month in Walhalla to seek the dismissal of a lawsuit over an accident involving a small plane and a deer two and a half years ago at the Oconee Regional Airport.  The county is the moving party in a dismissal motion to be heard Tuesday, December 11 by Judge Lawton […]

A group of breast cancer survivors at Keowee Key recently held a fundraiser walk and auction. The result is a donation of $3,600 to the Breast Care Center at Oconee Medical Center According to Chris Cox, an organizer, “Our mission is to pay it forward with Breast Cancer and help other women going through the process.” The donation will be […]

This land off By-Pass 123 in Seneca bordering Lake Keowee is the subject of a rezoning hearing at 6 tonight at City Hall. The owners hope to building town homes on nearly two acres.