Municipal governing bodies to meet

Municipal governing authorities in both Seneca and West Union hold their regular November meetings tomorrow night at their regular meeting locations.  Business before the Seneca City Council includes free Thanksgiving meals at the Shaver Recreation Complex.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, will also bring up mobile COVID-19 testing at the Shaver center.  Seneca and West Union council meetings will start at […]

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140′ floating dock to be added at Devil’s Fork

A new courtesy dock is in the works for Devil’s State Park on Lake Jocassee.  The addition of a 140-foot floating dock at the public boat ramp is seen by officials as a way to lessen congestion created between commercial vendors and the general public.  According to “FERC”—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the dock will be secured to a bulkhead […]

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Alvin “Maggie” Barnett Clark

Seneca, SC – Alvin “Maggie” Barnett Clark, 87, husband of 64 years to Bernice Ellen Lyle, of 123 Henry Avenue, Seneca, passed away Thursday, November 5, 2020, at Greenville Memorial Hospital.   A native of Rock Hill, SC, Mr. Clark was the son of the late Jesse Alvin and Mary Barnett Clark. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army […]

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Mary Ann Sweat

  Westminster – Mary Ann Smith Sweat, 73, wife of the late James Edward Sweat, passed away Friday, November 6th, 2020, at her residence surrounded by her loving family.   Mary was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, she was the daughter of the late Willie and Piercy May Ellenburg Smith.  Mary retired from J.P. Stevens where she was a machine […]

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West-Oak’s Sherman is a Heisman Scholar winner

  A student at West-Oak High School, Samantha Sherman, has been named a winner in the Heisman High School Scholarship competition, awarded by the Heisman Trophy Trust and Acceptance Insurance.  Samantha is part of a pool of thousands of high school scholar-athletes graduating in 2021.  In its first year as a presenting sponsor, Acceptance Insurance pledged an additional $25 thousand […]

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Graham wants vote fraud investigation

Senator Lindsey Graham quotes a Pennsylvania postal worker as saying an Erie postal supervisor hatched a plan to backdate ballots mailed after the election.  And the South Carolina Republican from Oconee says he has received an affidavit to that effect from postal worker Richard Hopkins.  Graham issued the statement in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  He […]

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Two-day South Carolina count: 2,500 new cases

  Over the weekend, according to the state health agency, new and confirmed cases of COVID-19 amounted to 2,592.  They were amassed in DHEC’s reports on Saturday and yesterday:  1,639 Saturday; 825 yesterday.  In those two days, new Oconee cases totaled 35.  There were nine deaths in Saturday’s report; 20 in yesterday’s.  None were listed in Oconee County, but the […]

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Seneca shootings leave two dead

Gunfire in a Seneca residential area has left two young men dead and police investigators working to determine why the fatal shots were fired.  However, interim police chief Casey Bowling believes the Tribble Street shootings were an isolated incident and there’s no danger to the public.  Coroner Karl Addis, so far, has identified the dead as a 20-year old Pickens […]

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Early morning West Union home fire

An early morning home fire in West Union has displaced one person, but caused no personal injuries, according to information received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  That individual can thank a working smoke detector that alerted him and saved him from injury or death. The fire on West Union’s Church Street was reported at 4:10 this morning.  Nearly two hours later, fire […]

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To win the Senate, you spend millions

In the 21st century, the reality is that if you want to win a U-S senate race, be prepared to spend millions of dollars, to be precise at least $100 million.  Lindsey Graham’s campaign manager Scott Farmer says Graham’s Democratic opponent, Jaime Harrison, spent $130 million; Graham’s campaign spent $108 million.  Speaking today, Farmer expressed pride that his candidate spent […]

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