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From South Carolina DHEC: 3,554 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state. In Oconee County, 82 new cases. Statewide, there were 73 deaths counted in a 24-hour period, including two each in Pickens and Anderson counties. Of 29,217 test results received, the positivity was 17.3%. (These numbers reflect the count at Monday’s finish)
Read moreThe state patrol reports a motorcyclist was killed last night when his chopper hit a low-hanging tree in Pickens County. By mid-morning, the coroner had yet to identify the fatality. The patrol reported the accident shortly after 12:30 this morning on two-lane SC 133, three miles north of Six Mile. The motorcyclist was helmeted and ejected from the motorcycle.
Read moreA public official closely tied to the aging populations of Oconee and Anderson says once the latest warnings about Social Security and Medicare are absorbed, there’ll be a shudder that permeates many senior citizens of a certain age. The board of trustees for Social Security warned that trust funds are projected to deplete one year earlier than previously predicted, and […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) released school, district, and state report cards reflective of the 2020-2021 school year. The 2021 report cards include results from state assessments administered in Spring 2021, the first administration of state assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The state assessment results reflected on the 2021 report cards confirm the alarming trends we have observed […]
Read moreLeaders of the Oconee GOP are calling for their hometown U-S senator to be censured. David McMahan, county chairman, has released a resolution from the party executive committee that seeks disapproval in a formal statement for what it says was Senator Lindsey Graham’s vote with Democrats on the bill known as Invest in America, in part, because it contains no […]
Read moreThe choice of whether to mask up in Oconee public schools will remain with the children or their parents, at least for now, after last night’s highly-emotional meeting of the county trustees. Thirty-minutes of public comment, much of it anti-facial coverings, was followed by the trustees’ decision to put off any vote, pending the outcome of a ruling by the […]
Read moreThe man found dead lying on a Utica street is a case of homicide, according to the Oconee County coroner. Karl Addis says the victim late last night was a Pendleton resident, Richard Dennis Keese. After a 9-1-1 call reporting shots fired, 62- year old Keese was found in front of 14 Padgett Street. He had been staying at the […]
Read moreSeneca, SC — Julie Ann Anglea, 59, wife of Tim Anglea, of Seneca, SC, went home to be with the Lord Sunday, August 29, 2021, at Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC. A native of Charlotte, NC, Julie was the daughter of the late Robert Thomas and Ruth Tucker Garrison. She attended Clemson University where she received her BA in […]
Read moreSeneca – Judy Federlin Becker Taylor, 76, loving wife of Johnny Stephen Taylor for 56 years, passed away Monday, August 30th, 2021 St. Francis Hospital, surrounded by her loving family. Judy was born in Six Mile, South Carolina, and was the daughter of the late Joseph Becker and Frances Arnold Hendricks. She was a homemaker, a faithful servant of […]
Read more101.7/WGOG NEWS learned that a circuit judge granted partial summary judgment today in a lawsuit that pitted the city of Seneca and a couple who’ve sought to be allowed to rent their lake development home on a short-term basis. The lawsuit for Leonard and Julie Chace was filed in the common pleas court in 2017 and was temporarily withdrawn before […]
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