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The police in Seneca arrested a Greenville man this week in a one-year old investigation of stolen off-road vehicles.  The Polaris RZRs are designed for trail and dune riding. Law enforcement reports show three charges of grand larceny against Michael Jacob Zaagman.  The 43-year old Zaagman was arrested Wednesday evening and taken to the Oconee jail.   The police were alerted […]

A Seneca man has been arrested on multiple charges that arose from a night time incident last spring in which a policeman spotted a car moving in reverse without lights on off the Old Salem Road.  James Sebastian Hunter Jr., 32, faces five charges including littering or prowling.  On the night of March 30, the city patrolman tracked his suspect […]

Oconee’s Humane Society says over 50 years it has given tens of thousands of dogs and cats a second chance through adoptions, along with helping thousands more with low-cost spay and neuter vouchers, free vaccination clinics and pet food giveaways.  To mark the 50 years, the humane society announces a fund-raising goal of $50 thousand to help more pets.  A […]

By late September, a new and upgraded COVID-19  booster will arrive.  And officials say it is intended to protect against the current circulating strains of the virus.  Current strains are a reality, as Westminster’s only general physician, Dr. Billy Campbell, says last week his office saw three new COVID cases, one severe enough to admit the patient.  The new booster […]

The legal provision called the South Carolina Long-Arm Statute is in play in civil lawsuits filed yesterday in Oconee County, arising from a Pickens County car accident three years ago. That accident, on  Old Cherry Road , left the driver dead along with two passengers.  The damage lawsuits were filed for representatives of the deceased.  Among the four named defendants […]

Speculation has it now that Oconee will see a new major shopping center west of Seneca limits that the property in the vicinity of the Sandifer Boulevard will see increased value.  Sources have confirmed to 101.7/WGOG NEWS that 2.65 acres sold last week for a $300 thousand price – a triangular piece of property that fronts Sandifer Boulevard and the […]

Monday is Labor Day — a national holiday.  And a number of government services are adjusting their schedules.  All Oconee libraries are closed Saturday through Monday.  Book returns slots remain open and due dates are being adjusted. Oconee’s recycling centers and the C&D Landfill are closed on Monday.  They will do business on regular schedule Saturday.  After Labor Day on […]

Today’s agenda for Oconee’s Commission on Parks, Recreation and Tourism indicates there could be votes on as many as 13 separate applications for grant funds.  Interests representing the county and its three largest municipalities are among the applicants who go before the seven-member group which dispenses monies to advance local tourism efforts and attractions.  Today’s meeting is set for the […]

Senator Lindsey Graham was part of a bi-partisan, bicameral delegation that met with the president of Egypt.  About the meeting with Egypt’s Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the South Carolina Republican said, “Egypt has long been a strategic partner to the United States and has benefitted from its peace treaty with the State of Israel.  Looking forward, I was pleased to hear […]

A North Carolina couple have been arrested in Oconee County, in an incident in which the sheriff’s office discovered of two people inside a church building — there without the authorization of the church.  The two people were charged with utilities theft of electric current and third degree burglary after a sheriff’s sergeant found them on Monday inside a building […]