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The GBI (the Georgia Bureau of Investigation) is investigating an officer involved shooting in Toccoa, GA. The Toccoa Police Department asked the GBI to conduct an independent investigation on Tuesday, July 5, 2022. One man was shot prior to law enforcement’s arrival and died. A second man was shot and died during the police encounter. No officers were injured in […]
Read moreWest Union, SC– Joshua Dillon Ford, 25, of West Union, passed away on Sunday, July 3, 2022, at his home. A native of Johnson City, TN, Joshua was the son of Danny Eugene and Kendra Carr Ford. He worked for Mountain Top Golf Course in Cashiers, NC as a maintenance worker. In addition to his parents, Joshua is […]
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West Union Town Council is inviting engineering consultant Troy Rosier to a workshop tomorrow morning. Topic is waterline project. The workshop starts at 9 in the morning.
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Some within WGOG land are liable to have lost sleep early this morning when a storm walloped an area between Seneca and Clemson. Around 2 o’clock this morning thunder, light bolts, heavy downpour. The traffic signals at 123 and Wells Highway apparently paid a price. They were on blink this morning.
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By 10:15 last night, Westminster crews had restored electric power service for most customers impacted by the outage early in the afternoon. Marty Reid of the utilities department said by late last night, only isolated outages remained. Repair crews were activated just after 1 o’clock in the afternoon when construction workers hit a utility pole near Simpson Street. That left […]
Read moreAn air traffic controller first class at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida has been recognized for making a positive difference in a young boy’s life – through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Florida. He’s Austin Holliday, originally from Clemson. Holliday earned the Ron Mobayed Military Big of the Year Award for his mentorship of a little […]
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Coroner Addis of Oconee has updated the report of his investigation as to what happened yesterday on Lake Keowee: “A 38-year-old Greenville man died Monday afternoon (July 4th) in the emergency department at Oconee Memorial Hospital from drowning. Michael Criswell, 38, was with friends at Stamp Creek Landing on Lake Keowee Monday afternoon. They were wading in the lake when […]
Read moreBaseball’s rich library of films can soon add another. It’s titled, “The Royal” and depicts the Major League career of Seneca native Willie Mays Aikens, his downfall to drugs, and his later redemption. The movie draws on a book by Kansas City-based writer Greg Jordan, the first 11 pages of which center on Aikens’ growing up in Seneca. Stories on […]
Read moreSalem– Donald Kenneth Jones, 85, husband of the late Jayne Fueston Jones, passed away Monday, July 4, 2022 at Keowee Place. Born in St. Paris, Ohio, Donald was the son of the late Lowell Jones and Thelma Kite Jones. Donald was a Computer Operations Manager, a member of the Miami Shelby Chapter Barbershop Quartet Chorus and a sports correspondent […]
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Due to the increasing costs and proven ineffectiveness of curbside recycling, the City of Clemson will suspend curbside collection of recycling effective Monday, August 1st, 2022. Why is Curbside Recycling Being Suspended? The National Waste & Recycling Association estimates that at least 25% of recyclable material in single-stream recycling (which includes curbside recycling) ends up in landfills due to contamination. […]
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