Category: News

The annual consumers’ meeting of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative takes place at the Pickens office this evening, with entertainment by the Primitive Quartet starting at 4:30 and the business meeting at 7. All Blue Ridge members can register for free prizes plus there’s free food and a door prize for each registered member.

There are developments today in the project to build a Pioneer Rural Water District treatment plant.  Terry Pruitt, general manager, disclosed to 101.7/WGOG NEWS within the last hour that Pioneer received word that State Senator Thomas Alexander introduced a bill yesterday in Columbia, aimed at stopping the construction of the plant. Also, the office of the South Carolina Attorney’s General […]

  Blue Ridge Bank will host a free paper shredding event in observance of Arbor Day. On Friday, April 28, from 10 am to 2 pm, the public is invited to come to the bank’s Seneca office on Bountyland Road with personal or sensitive documents to be shredded and recycled by the Piedmont-based company Shred-A-Way.  The company’s mobile truck will […]

A back-up is reported this morning where a car has turned over in the vicinity of Bountyland Quik Stop in the area of 183 and North Avenue.

The economic development arm of Oconee County recognizes the county’s small airport near the Clemson campus as an engine for prosperity.  And, from the airport’s standpoint, the reaction is one of gratitude for the recognition and acceptance of the airport as a key component in economic development.  August 21 will illustrate that as well as any day might.  On the […]

For most of one day next week, Oconee County office staff will engage in a training session, which means that the county administrative offices on Walhalla’s S. Pine Street will be closed for much of the work day on Wednesday, April 26.  No public access will be granted to the building from 8:30 am to 2 pm.  The County Administrative […]

The police say a 33-year old man, Jody McCarter Brown, has been arrested and charged with armed robbery with a deadly weapon in Westminster.  The holdup of two people in the parking lot of Citgo on E. Main Street is alleged to have occurred yesterday, according to a warrant issued by the Westminster Magistrate Will Derrick.  Law enforcement records list […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office confirmed the arrest this afternoon of a student accused of threatening a “Columbine style shooting” at West-Oak High School.  Amy McKenzie Faust, 18-year old Seneca resident, was arrested yesterday on the charge of disturbing school March 28.  An affidavit to an arrest warrant, signed by Magistrate Blake Norton, reads, “The defendant did on 3-28-17 willfully and […]

A vote this week by the Oconee school board made official a partnership between the public schools and the organization that is raising money to build the county’s first YMCA.  The board approved a $3 million commitment, to be payable over a 20-year period.  Dr. Michael Thorsland, superintendent, explained the district’s interest is to have access to an indoor swimming […]

Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw will auction to the highest bidder drug seized vehicles and equipment.  The auction Saturday, April 29 will take place at the county Vehicle Maintenance Facility on Wells Highway, Seneca from 9am until all everything is sold. The vehicles and equipment were seized by the Sheriff’s Office during drug investigations.  All vehicles and equipment have been searched to […]