Category: News

The regular August meeting of West Union Town Council takes place at 6 tomorrow evening at Town Hall.

The official closing date this summer for the Walhalla Municipal Swimming Pool is Sunday, August 20–the day before the eclipse.  Sarah Wilson, head lifeguard and on-site manager, says from Monday, August 14 to Wednesday, August 16 the pool will be open 11 am to 5 pm; closed on Thursday and Friday, August 17 and 18; open Saturday, August 19 from […]

A squirrel that interfered with electric power transmission in Seneca is blamed for the Saturday morning outage that temporarily took out service for about one-half of the customer base.  Bob Faires, utilities superintendent, displayed a photo of the casualty–a fried rodent.  The outage took out traffic lights at several intersections, including 123 and E-N 1st Street where the police hand-waved […]

Last night’s rain storms came with a price.  Oconee County Dispatch reports several electric power outages.  Westminster the hardest hit.

An autopsy disclosed that drowning was the cause for the death Friday of an Anderson woman in Lake Keowee.  Barbara Lynn Malone was 62 years old.  Oconee Coroner Karl Addis said did not sustain any apparent medical issue that could be seen at autopsy to explain why she went unresponsive.  Her body was found in waist-deep water near the Keowee Sailing Club.  […]

A 62-year old Anderson woman died at the GHS-Oconee Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon after she was pulled from shallow water in Lake Keowee and found unresponsive.  She was Barbara Lynn Malone.  Coroner Karl Addis says an autopsy tomorrow will help determine whether a medical event caused Malone to go underwater.  She and two of her friends were wading in the […]

The DOT has announced the re-opening of a section of Seneca’s N. Townville Street with the completion of sinkhole repairs.  The discovery of a sinkhole forced the closing of N. Townville between 3rd and 4th streets.

Public safety responders pulled a swimmer from Lake Keowee this afternoon and started CPR before the woman was sent to the hospital.  There’s no confirmed word on her condition.  A responder told 101.7/WGOG NEWS the location was about four feet of water near the Keowee Sailing Club on SC 130 near Seneca.

Fire today has displaced two people from their home in Mountain Rest on the Village Creek Road.  According to Shane Gibbs, Oconee Fire Marshall, the trouble at the home began this morning with a grease fire in the kitchen.  That fire apparently damaged electrical wiring in the home.  According to Gibbs, it was discovered later that a second related fire […]

The idea of the Walhalla Razorbacks having to compete in a conference with the likes of Wren, Daniel, and Belton-Honea Path doesn’t sit well with school officials and supporters.  According to a school district official, Walhalla Principal Steve Garrett plans to file an appeal with the South Carolina High School League by the deadline–Wednesday, August 16.  And there’s word that […]