Category: News

It’s March Madness for the SCDNR’s Climatology Office, and the climatologists, in partnership with the National Weather Service, are recruiting citizen precipitation observers for the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. It is a grassroots volunteer network of backyard weather observers of all ages and backgrounds. The program started in Colorado in 1998 and was introduced in South Carolina […]

Refunds in the amount of millions of dollars are headed to Oconee’s three largest municipalities. All it will take will be a vote tonight by the policy board of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, voting to approve a committee’s recommendation. Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster are to receive the refunds as the member cities of the JRSA. Seneca is in line […]

Five people were hurt in the wreckage of three vehicles Saturday afternoon on the 123 Seneca-Clemson corridor. The wreck occurred at the Wells Highway traffic light and involved two cars and a motorcycle. According to the highway patrol, one of the car drivers, Bradford Bearden, was lodged in the Oconee jail on charges of driving under suspension and two charges […]

State troopers report injuries this afternoon in a crash on 123, between Seneca and Clemson, at the turn to Wells Highway.  101.7/WGOG NEWS counted at least four ambulances at the scene or on their way.  The accident appears to have involved a motorcycle and a small car.  Sheriff’s cars have stationed themselves at the scene, and there is a traffic […]

A spokesman for Schneider Electric confirmed to 101.7/WGOG NEWS this afternoon that his company is closing a plant north of Philadelphia and sending some of the production work (the panel board and low voltage business) to its Seneca plant on the Sandifer Boulevard. David Smith, director of media relations for Schneider, says it’s too early to talk about how many […]

A four-year old legal dispute between Seneca and a downtown building owner remains at an impasse, according to a filing with the Common Pleas Court. Greenville attorney Thomas Traxler attempted to mediate Seneca’s dispute with members of the Haynes family over what happens to the building that takes up a large section of a downtown block between Main and N. […]

A Westminster area man has been ordered to prison for 40 years for two crimes, one of which killed one child and severely injured another. After hearing testimony, Judge Scott Sprouse handed down the sentences to defendant Matthew Chappell, who is in his mid 20s. Sprouse called what happened to Gwynne and Gracie Hess “troubling and horrible.” Chappell pleaded no […]

Three cars apparently have collided at the 123 Seneca-Clemson corridor at the Food Lion shopping center traffic lights.  A report from the scene indicates all three cars have been moved off the highway onto the median.  The highway patrol is there and an ambulance was positioned there earlier.

Senators Scott (R-SC) and Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act today to expand elementary, secondary, and vocational education options available to all students—especially for those who are most vulnerable—by providing a federal tax credit that encourages individuals and businesses to donate to nonprofit scholarship funds for individual students’ education. “Education is the single-most impactful gift our […]

The idea of free and open sharing in education will be the focus of two weeks of events at the R.M. Cooper Library this month between March 4–13. The event is organized by the library’s Technology unit, instruction team and subject librarians, with support from Clemson University Press, Clemson Online and the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation and is […]