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The election process is on the table for talks next week In Pickens County. The Pickens County Legislative Delegation has announced the delegation will hold a meeting at 1 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Pickens County Administration Building with the county Board of Registrations and Elections. Attending also will be members of the County Council, County Administrator Gerald Wilson and […]

Jon Cole was in the 10th grade when he dropped out of high school and admittedly “started out down the wrong path.” Jon said, “I didn’t think I had a future,” until he got clean and sober and pursued his GED in June 2018 through Anderson County 1 and 2 Adult Education. Today, with a manufacturing credential in hand and […]

How are you on birthdays? At WGOG, we don’t get overly excited, but the one coming up Monday has us thinking. On Monday, April 15—the day known as tax day—WGOG will mark its 60th year. The station is now in its third set of owners. We are sad to say that we don’t have a record of all the names […]

A calculation error apparently deprived the city of Westminster of money held by the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority. Westminster is one of three municipalities whose wastewater is treated by the JRSA’s plant at Seneca. At a meeting next week, a JRSA committee will consider recommending a refund to Westminster in the amount of $70,592.83 for un-metered wastewater flows dating […]

A new Seneca business has yet to officially open, but it opened its doors last night to a mixer—a private party that catered to the young of Oconee County. The new Keowee Brewing Company has given a new look to the intersection of E. Main and N. Walnut streets in downtown Seneca. And, last night, there was food outside and […]

Crowds are expected to flock today and tomorrow along parts of U-S 123 for a multi-mile yard sale. Traffic could be an issue for 123—stretching from the Seneca Wal-Mart to 123 beyond Westminster in the direction of Georgia.

A day-long crime spree Tuesday in Oconee County ended with the apprehension of a 19-year old man and two under age teenagers—a 14-year old girl and a 15-year old boy. The Sheriff’s Office reports the adult male, Oconee resident Samuel Scott Gray, faces five charges, including the offense of attempted armed robbery. The Sheriff’s Office classifies what happened as a […]

At his Walhalla barber shop, Chris Grant hears a lot of things about the city. When someone sits in a chair for a haircut, he tends to unload on some things he might not directly say to the mayor or a member of a city council. That kind of stuff has Grant thinking that he might run for a city […]

Some time next year, perhaps, a court will rule on the bid by 20 South Carolina electric cooperatives to escape the possibility of having to share in the debt created by the failed V-C Summer nuclear plant project in Fairfield County. Those cooperatives include Blue Ridge, based in Pickens. The co-ops have no ownership in what’s called a fiasco, but […]

The state police have arrested and charged a Newry man in a case of illegal sexual actions with a child. The arrested man is Joshua Alan Logan. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division today released warrants alleging 32-year old Logan committed the crimes of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and disseminating obscene material to a minor in two locations—Newry and […]