Category: News

Word reaching 101.7/WGOG NEWS of a serious fire that struck the restaurant at The Reserve home development on Lake Keowee.  Apparently it was a midnight hour fire, to which Oconee County’s Keowee fire Department sent resources, including a ladder fire truck.  We are attempting to learn more information from Pickens County’s Keowee Vineyard Fire Department thru its chief, Phil Black.

Workers arriving this morning at the Oconee Veterans Affairs Office on Kenneth Street, Walhalla were greeted by no electric power service.  There’s an uncofirmed report that lightning hit the main power.  The V-A office’s neighbor, the DSS, may also be without power service.

A Tri-County Tech instructor concedes her quest to unseat a third-term U-S representative from what’s considered an entrenched Republican district is an uphill battle.  But it’s a battle that Democrat Mary Geren is eager to undertake.  A large number of her supporters cheered for her yesterday in a ballroom at Clemson University’s Madren Center.  Geren elicited cheers and some laughter […]

A Walhalla man who set a vehicle afire in a carport that spread to destroy the adjoining home said he never intended to kill those inside the home asleep.  Nevertheless, Joshua Charles Campbell was sent to prison for a 12-year sentence.  Campbell is 29 years old.  He admitted his guilt to arson third degree and to nine counts of attempted […]

One man was taken to the hospital when he made contact with an energized conductor in the Friendship Community near Seneca.  Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative earlier disconnected service at the home because of non-payment of the power bill.  According to Blue Ridge, it appears the individual placed an aluminum ladder against a power pole.  And climbing the ladder, the person […]

A report on the state police agency’s investigation in Westminster is in the hands of the office of the 10th Circuit Solicitor.  David Wagner, solicitor, said today the report arrived Friday and has asked Lindsey Simmons, deputy solicitor in Oconee County, to review and evaluate the report and make a recommendation to him.  Issues over the loan of a wood […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has identified a Toccoa, Georgia man as the driver of a car that allegedly failed to yield the right of way late last week at a highway 183 intersection between Walhalla and Westminster.  Besides reckless driving, 31-year old James Buice Phillips was also charged with driving under suspension, giving false information, and receiving stolen goods.  According […]

Daniel Smith, Jr, MD, medical director of Greenville Health System’s Hospice of the Foothills and Cottingham Hospice House near Seneca, received the Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Champion Award last week during the annual Transforming Health Symposium in Columbia. The award honors patient safety champions in South Carolina who go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure quality care. […]

Members of the newly formed American Heart Association Upstate board of directors are working to shape the board’s strategy to lower rates of hypertension in Upstate South Carolina. The board will seek to raise the percent of patients with controlled hypertension from around 55 to 70 percent, a goal the board sees as achievable over the course of two years. The board […]

With 75 votes from community members in Upstate South Carolina, the Arts Center of Clemson is the winner of the inaugural Festival of Eggs decorating contest, sponsored by Duke Energy’s World of Energy at Oconee Nuclear Station. The contest, a spinoff from the World of Energy’s annual Festival of Trees, invited local organizations to adopt and decorate 16-inch plastic eggs, […]