Category: News

What has been discussed is now a reality.  Oconee public school students and teachers will need to make changes to their end-of-summer calendars.  The first day of the next school year will be Thursday, August 17—and the change has come about because of the full solar eclipse that will follow four days later.  Monday, August 21 had been the original […]

Fire broke out last night in a home on Seneca’s S. Walnut Street.  No one reported hurt. Six people in that 1101 S. Walnut home made it out safely.  Fire fighters rolled to the fire scene at 11:10 and remained there until shortly after 1:30 this morning.  They are attributing the origin of the fire to the kitchen.

Oconee County Council has announced it will hold a special meeting to talk about Pioneer Rural Water’s treatment plant—work on which has begun in two sections of southern Oconee.  Land adjacent to the county’s Golden Corner Commerce Park has been set aside for the plant.  The project has rankled some of Pioneer’s customers who fear what they pay for water […]

Consent orders are proposed to settle matters involving the state Department of Environmental Control and two Oconee County entities.  Separate matters involving the Oconee School District and Ulbrich Specialty Wire near Westminster are to be resolved by action tomorrow of the D-HEC board in Columbia.  In the matter of land-disturbing activity at the Ravenel Elementary School, the Oconee district faces […]

Novelists often employ arsenic poisoning as a dramatic tool to kill off a character. But in real life, chronic exposure at non-deadly levels can still cause a bevy of harm, resulting in loss of muscle mass, memory disruption, impaired sensory abilities, and damage to blood vessels and cancer. The World Health Organization estimates that 200-300 million people, including 13 million Americans, are […]

  Customers of Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative appear satisfied by those who represent their interests on the Co-Op’s policy-making board.  During district meetings the following board members were re-nominated for new terms on the board of directors:  Len Talley of Oconee, Ben Bolt of Anderson County, and William Elrod of Pickens County.  A vote of the multi-county customer membership will […]

A head-on collision is said to have injured an Oconee County high school student this morning on rural Chattooga Ridge Road near Long Creek.  According to reports received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS, responders arranged for a medical helicopter flight for the patient.

Walhalla City Hall filled last night with contractor and architect representatives and the city council convened an executive session for the purpose of reaching a contract for the city’s project to build a new treatment plant.  Just prior, Mayor Edwards expressed uncertainty as to whether his city would reach a deal with the Harper Corporation and a set price for […]

The police say no one was hurt when a car and an Oconee school bus collided on S. Catherine Street in Walhalla, but the accident scene led city officials once again to talk about what can be done to enhance safety there.  Later in the City Hall lobby one city councilman questioned the police chief about whether the city should […]

  Julian Davis III requested the board at Pioneer Rural Water to suspend work on the treatment plant for 90 days to allow questions to be answered.  Davis said he was not speaking this afternoon as an Oconee County councilman.  Instead he raised concerns that he and other Pioneer customers have about the water supplier incurring long-term debt and the […]