Category: News

Customers of Pioneer Rural Water decided last evening to stay with the man who brought them to the dance.  Eddie Grant beat back a challenge from Brad Hobbs to keep his District 5 seat on the board of directors.  Announced by Chairman Barry Stevenson, the vote tally gave Grant 86 votes; Hobbs, 34.  A total of 120 votes represents a […]

Fire heavily damaged the Mountain View Steak and Seafood Restaurant this morning on SC 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway.  No one reported hurt.  Rural Fire Control received a call shortly after 4 am and sent multiple department–Keowee-Ebenezer the primary.  By 6 this morning, fire fighters remained at the scene.  The restaurant is one of two owned by the Rev. Bobby Bugg and […]

Things can take time, but a movie filmed four years ago in Seneca and parts of Oconee is now ready to make its big screen play. It’s Elbow Grease” starring Burt Reynolds and featuring Seneca and and other Oconee residents in a movie about the struggles of a southern family, according to Shelby Henderson of Seneca.  The plot line has […]

Funeral plans are set for one of two Stephens County, Georgia football players who was among four people killed a week ago in a tragic midnight hour car accident.  According to the social media pages of the Stephens County Indians, visitation for Kainan Green will be 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 8 pm tomorrow at the Moss Stovall Neal Funeral […]

Early reviews of the history book that a Seneca man written on the Blue Ridge Railroad are favorable, according to what some of the readers are telling 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Dr. James Johnson spent years researching and then writing the history of the railroad that would have connected South Carolina–thru Walhalla and parts of Oconee—to Tennessee.  It was a project that got […]

The Walhalla police say a 21-year old man was arrested Sunday and charged with criminal sexual conduct.  The arrested man–Joel Martinez-Chirinos of Cory Road near the town limits—was jailed on the charge of criminals sexual conduct with a minor second degree.  The police say once they determined the incident occurred in side the city, they investigated.  The police say the […]

Forgery charges have been placed against an Oconee man–the result of a burglary investigation that the Sheriff’s Office started in early April.  The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest yesterday of Terry Richard Gassaway, 39, of the Blackjack Road, Westminster.  Investigators determined checks were taken during a burglary on Chandelier Court and that the victim did not authorize anyone to use […]

More public recreation fatalities occur in July than any other month, so the government requests the recreating public to play it safe while on, in, or near the water.  Drowning is the leading cause of recreating deaths this time of year. Statistics from the Army Corps of Engineers show 88% of the victims were male, 89% were not wearing a life jacket, […]

A Clemson city Town Hall meeting takes place 6 to 8 pm Sunday at Abel Baptist Church, 150 Abel Road, Clemson.

Sen. Lindsey Graham will make opening remarks during tomorrow morning’s hearing on a bill to cut off funding to the Palestinian Authority if it continues the policy of paying money to terrorists and their surviving family members.  The bill is titled “The Taylor Force Act”–named for former US Army officer Taylor Force who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian […]