Category: News

Blue Ridge Bank capped off a celebratory event near Seneca with the announcement of a $50 thousand commitment to the kitty for the Foothills Area YMCA. The campaign to build the first YMCA in Oconee County has the land, an architect, a builder, and a large federal loan, and yesterday’s groundbreaking was a celebration of a project whose origins date […]

Something new from the DOT at one of Oconee’s busiest intersections…Motorists who sit in the turning lanes at Seneca’s East End intersection—123 and E-N 1st Street/the Rochester Highway—now see flashing yellow arrow signals. Capt. B-J McClure of the Seneca police says, from the DOT, he has learned that when a driver in the turning lane faces a flashing yellow (or […]

Corp. Jesus De Luna Soto of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office tries to make a difference in the lives of Seneca Middle School students. De Luna Soto wants to be the positive influence on the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders that Officer Keith Brooks was for him nine years ago when he was a student at Walhalla High School. Now, as […]

Oconee County Council members have had their chance to question the three finalists for administrator. Now it’s time for county department heads and a cross-section of the citizenry to take part in the process to find the permanent replacement for Scott Moulder, who resigned to become the Seneca city administrator. The finalists are Jon Caime of Laurens County, Les Blankenship […]

The West-Oak High School Band, directed by Andrew Young, will compete at 1:30 this Saturday afternoon in the state 2-A championships at Spring Valley High School near Columbia. This past weekend the West-Oak band placed fourth out of 17 in the upper 2-A finals held at Boiling Springs High School. All West-Oak supporters are encouraged to support their band this […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned the Oconee Common Pleas Court will send out letters to the attorneys in Chace versus Seneca to ascertain the status of mediation proceedings. The mediation period, which was set to expire late last week, was designed as an attempt by the parties to reach a settlement of the attack that the Chaces, an Atlanta couple, have […]

The two-cent increase each year on South Carolina’s gas tax has begun to create a pool of money which with which the state is attacking its long list of road maintenance work. And to the Oconee-Pickens Senator Thomas Alexander it’s a sign the plan is working. Alexander refers to the announcement from the state DOT that as many as 18 […]

Trees have been cleared next door to the ambulance headquarters on the grounds of the Oconee Memorial Hospital. It’s a sign that construction is imminent on a 31,000 square foot YMCA, and today there will be a ground breaking ceremony there at 4:30. Everyone is invited. First phase of Oconee’s first YMCA is to include an indoor pool, fitness center, […]

A 28-year old Anderson County man died Friday afternoon when hit by a westbound Norfolk Southern train traveling from Greenville to Toccoa, Georgia. Oconee Coroner Karl Addis said the victim, across from the Hartwell Village shopping center, was Song Keun Im. Addis quoted Im’s father as saying his son was a Korean American and a U-S Army veteran. Im was […]

The building near Seneca that houses state Vocational Rehabilitation services for Oconee and Pickens counties will stretch out next year by 6,000 square feet. At an employer luncheon today, area supervisor Shelia Ford announced that a groundbreaking for the expansion project will be held in the spring. Dan Alexander, business development specialist, says the expansion is recognition of the increasing […]