Category: News

The bats have left the building, and the Brooks Center for Performing Arts at Clemson University will re-open its theatres Friday, April 27. Last month, during a performance by the Houston Ballet, several bats were spotted above the stage. Then a colony of bats was discovered roosting in a wall that separates the theatre from the lobby. Entrance openings were […]

Oconee school trustees gave preliminary approval to a new budget to cover the next school year. That budget is to be presented tonight to the budget committee of Oconee County Council. At last night’s meeting of the trustees, district administrators announced the proposed budget calls for revenues of about $98 million dollars and expenses of about $99.5 million dollars. The […]

Oconeeans are sounding off on a proposal to complement the county school resource officer program by arming selected district employees who would undergo firearm training. Those opinions are arriving by email and by vocal expressions, such as those heard last night by the county trustees. Before turning to a procession of speakers Dr. Michael Thorsland, district superintendent, announced a change […]

A jury is in place and will start hearing testimony tomorrow morning in Walhalla in the case of South Carolina v. Jason Wilbanks. According to the prosecution, defendant Wilbanks faces the charge of possession of methamphetamine third degree. He was arrested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office in November 2016.

An Oconee County man was disqualified today from the pool of General Sessions jurors for a post he placed yesterday on Facebook. In the post, as explained by Judge Scott Sprouse, the young man announced he had been selected for this week’s jury and then, in an apparent message to defendants, he wrote, “I got you. Not guilty.” Was this […]

The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the alleged kidnapping yesterday morning of a 66-year old woman from her home on Holly Springs School Road. Pickens County was notified at approximately 12:30pm yesterday by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office in reference to an abandoned Jeep Cherokee registered to a Pickens County resident. The vehicle was found on the roadside of […]

The School Improvement Council of Walhalla High School has been named the recipient of this year’s Dick and Tunky Riley Award for School Improvement Council Excellence. The award was presented Saturday in Columbia at the annual meeting of the South Carolina School Improvement Council. Improvement councils from four other schools received honorable mention. Here is what the award presenters said […]

A one-block section of Walhalla’s S. College Street is closed this morning for construction work.  Traffic is being detoured around S. College between Main and S. Broad streets.

The plight of the Fair-Oak Youth Center’s recreation program is expected to be batted around tomorrow afternoon during a meeting of the task force that serves as an advisory committee to county’s elected leaders, the county council. 101.7/WGOG NEWS has been told the municipal recreation directors will be at tomorrow’s meeting. According to the agenda, each group will get five […]

Before Oconee trustees vote to allow individuals, other than resource officers, to carry guns in school, there needs to be a lot more public feedback, in the view of at least one board member. It has been a week since the unveiling of an idea to arm certain school employees, as a way to deter someone from carrying out a […]