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At their meeting tomorrow, Oconee County Council will be asked to award Thrift Development of Seneca a contract worth in excess of $400 thousand for new turn lanes and an eastern entrance road to the Heritage Farm Center on the 123/the Sandifer Boulevard. Another staff recommendation to the council is the award of $44 thousand to Trehel Corporation to handle […]
Read moreEffective today, South Carolina establishments licensed to sell beer, wine, and liquor for on-premises consumption may resume normal alcohol sales (pre-pandemic) as licensed by the state Department of Revenue. Governor McMaster has terminated COVID-19 related safety measures related to the sale of alcohol. McMaster’s previous executive order had prohibited sales of beer, wine and liquor for on-premises consumption after 11 […]
Read moreWestminster – Flora Rholetter Wynne, 93, wife of the late Pruitt Willard Wynne passed away, Sunday, February 28th, 2021 at her residence. Born in Oconee County, she was the daughter of the late Knox and Gussie Phillips Rholetter. Flora retired from Kendall where she worked as a seamstress and loved to garden. Flora was a member of Clearmont Baptist […]
Read moreTamassee, SC – William Edward “Ed” Fowler, 88, husband of Dorothy Hunt Fowler, of 675 Rosewalk Drive, Tamassee, passed away Sunday, February 28, 2021, at AnMed Health Medical Center. A native of Port Saint Joe, FL, Mr. Fowler was the son of the late Clyde Leyton and Audra Ione Gray Fowler. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy […]
Read moreThe Third District’s Jeff Duncan cast a no vote in the House on the $1.9 trillion dollar COVID relief bill, which arrives today in the Senate. The measure does not include a 15-dollar-an-hour wage boost. Rep. Duncan, Republican from Laurens, notes that the House bill passed without any support from his party. Although the bill includes $1,400 payments to Americans […]
Read moreA new drug bust conducted by the police in Seneca is being called “significant” by Chief Bowling. And he promises an announcement with details shortly
Read moreStudent meals eaten in the classrooms and limited crowds in recess. They are part of the new normal during COVID-19. However, with new lifting of certain restrictions the question has been posed by a listener of whether Oconee public schools are going to start easing some protocols. Here’s what the district spokeswoman told 101.7/WGOG NEWS this morning: “We’ve had a […]
Read moreSeneca – On Friday, February 26th at 1pm, Janis Osborn Kennedy lost her battle with cancer and left this earth for her heavenly home. Her husband Carl held her hand and she was surrounded by her three children; Dru, Vicki, and Carmen. Janis was born on February 23, 1938 in Tuttle, Oklahoma to the late Roy and Ida Kuhlman […]
Read moreThe short month of February is now in the record books kept by the U-S weather observer in Walhalla. Weather watcher Barbara Wilson recorded a wide temperature swing in the winter month–from a low of 22 degrees on both February 4 and 5 and a high of 74 degrees on the 26th. Total February precipitation was 4.8″ which included 2021’s […]
Read moreBy the deadline on Friday, Walhalla was left with two ballot candidates for the city’s special April 13 election to fill the vacant city council seat. The candidates are political newcomers: Christy Marlow and Gwen Owens. City voters next month will cast ballots to fill the seat held by the late Dennis Owens’, husband of Gwen Owens.
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