Scout’s achievement proclaimed
At Seneca, Erik Walters has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. His achievement was proclaimed during last night’s Seneca City Council meeting.
Read moreThe Golden Corner's Radio Station
At Seneca, Erik Walters has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. His achievement was proclaimed during last night’s Seneca City Council meeting.
Read moreSeneca’s 2020 tornado damaged the city’s disc golf course. The job to repair will go to McAllister’s Grading. That decision reached during last night’s city council meeting.
Read moreWith only four members who meet in a small meeting room to represent their town, West Union Town Council meetings are often informal, relaxed and filled with banter common to small town government. And that’s quite OK according to a visitor from Columbia who was asked to evaluate whether West Union follows proper meeting procedures. At the invitation of Mayor […]
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with South Carolina under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers. “USDA is excited to partner with South […]
Read moreTwo men are billed as special guests for this evening’s July meeting of the West Union Town Council. Chris Eleazer of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority will discuss and answer questions about the authority which operates Oconee’s sewer service; Jeff Shacker of the state Municipal Association will explain to the mayor and council the proper procedures for meetings.
Read moreThe police chief in Seneca, Casey Bowling, would like the public to be aware that someone is falsely posing as a Seneca policeman on the telephone. This is a scam, Bowling says. No one from the Seneca police will call you and say you need to pay a fine. It appears these scam calls are coming from more than one […]
Read moreThe cross-trained members of Walhalla Fire Department were sent late yesterday afternoon to a highway 28, Blue Ridge Boulevard, accident in front of Edwards Auto Sales. The 5:30 pm accident involved a car and a pickup pulling a trailer. Two people were sent to the hospital to be checked out, according to the fire department report.
Read moreBefore South Carolina doles out money to help Oconee County meet sewer needs, the state wants to know if the plan will encompass an all-together or regional approach. And yesterday the county sewer commissioners addressed whether there’ll be a requirement on the part of the member cities to take part in what’s called “a regionalization study for wastewater conveyance and […]
Read moreHank Morrow is headed this way. Louis Carver and Scott Alexander are departing from the public service scene in Oconee County. A retired air force service officer, Hank Morrow, who reached the rank of major general, will become the new executive secretary to the Clemson University Board of Trustees on October 1. Scott Alexander, a state worker and a man […]
Read moreA home fire response last night near Seneca required the presence of fire fighters for nearly two and one-half hours. No injuries have been reported to 101.7/WGOG NEWS as the result of the fire on Goddard Avenue at James Street. Seneca Fire Department was alerted just before 9 o’clock.
Read more