Tim Jackson

  Anderson– Timothy “Tim” Ray” Jackson, 63, passed away June 5th, 2024, at Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital.     Born February 16th, 1961, in Oconee County, South Carolina, Tim was the son of the late Fred LeCroy and Linda Elizabeth Jackson LeCroy Ridley. Tim was a self-employed car detailer, a race car enthusiast, had a great passion for restoring […]

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Congressional candidate visits WGOG

Stewart Jones, one of the eight Republican hopefuls for the Third District congressional seat, stopped at 101.7/WGOG on a day of campaigning in Oconee County, ahead of Tuesday’s primary election.  Jones, a state representative from Laurens County, plans this evening to make one of his stops Seneca’s Jazz on the Alley.  With so many men and women on the ballot […]

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A settlement hearing at the pre-trial stage

A court hearing is set Tuesday in Walhalla to settle a case of wrongful death allegations against Prisma Health Upstate and the Oconee Memorial Hospital.  An attorney for plaintiff Brad White of Pickens County will ask Judge McIntosh to approve a negotiated settlement at the pre-trial stage.  Under the terms of the negotiated settlement White, as special administrator for the […]

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Preston Pierce manages Jocassee Hydro Station

For 10 years, Preston Pierce has managed Duke Energy’s Jocassee Hydro Station.  Ahead of next week’s celebration of the hydro station’s 50th year, Pierce spoke to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the public event that takes place there a week from tomorrow – Friday morning, June 15, and what visitors will get to see.  The hydro station was built in 1973 to […]

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Walhalla United not a soccer club

Everyone interested in Walhalla and its future is invited by the city to a meeting next week for a talk on current developments in Oconee’s second largest city.  The event is called Walhalla United, and it’ll take place at 6 o’clock Monday evening at the Center for the Performing Arts on N. Broad Street.

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Former Senecan makes good in Columbia

Word from the state capital this afternoon is that former Senecan Letitia Hamilton Verdin has won a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court.  Senator Alexander says she was voted-in by a joint session of the legislature in a vote of 152-0.  Verdin currently sits on the state Appeals Court.  She’s one of three daughters of the late Angela and […]

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To the battlefields he goes

Senator Lindsey Graham, SC-Republican, is part of a bi-partisan Senate delegation on their way to Normandy, France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion by Allied Forces during the Second World War.  That landing and the fighting that ensued allowed the Allies to crush the Nazi World War 2 takeover of most of Europe.  “There will be 100 American […]

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Minor injuries in near head-on accident

Two pickup trucks collided late in the afternoon Tuesday on SC 130/the Stamp Creek Road at Keowee Key, and there were injuries.  But, as reported by Chief Kris Childress to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, the two people hurt sustained minor injuries.  Involved were a pair of pickup trucks in a near head-on accident that, for a short time, closed thru traffic on […]

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Central woman part of Tech’s governing board

A woman with a manufacturing background from the Pickens County town of Central has been named to the governing board of the Tri-County Technical College.  Melanie McLane was appointed by Governor McMaster to a three-year term effective June 3, to represent Pickens County.  McLane was part of the Anthrex startup team for the Pendleton area plant in 2019, an expansion […]

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Both online and on-site services

Among a committee of Walhalla government there’s talk about retaining a Spartanburg County firm to handle the city’s building and codes services.  Celia Myers, city administrator, says CC&I of Roebuck, SC would offer online permitting and on-site inspections.  Calls made for inspections made before 4 pm on a weekday will be scheduled for the following day.  As for compensation, CC&I […]

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