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The annual Hospice of the Foothills Christmas Tree Festival raised a record high of $167,817.96.  The festival is now in its 13th year.  Festival co-chair Edna Rider said, “We are thrilled that so many people in our community love the Christmas Tree Festival and look forward to supporting it every year.  People love to support GHS Hospice of the Foothills […]

Staff at a regional government service agency will advise Walhalla leaders as to the course to take to fill the city’s top job at City Hall.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that Walhalla leaders will speak to representatives of the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments in Greenville as they go about replacing Nancy Goehle, who will retire as Walhalla’s long-time […]

Salem has set the field for a special town council election.  On April 11, Salem will ask its voters to trek to the Salem Community Center to fill a vacancy on the four-member council.  At the deadline Friday, the candidates were Judy Hines and Vickie Towe.  Hines and Towe seek to fill the unexpired term created by the recent death […]

Oconee County authorities say three people have died in homes fires last night near Seneca and Walhalla.  Coroner Karl Addis says the bodies of two of the victims were found in a home on Brooksmore Road near Walhalla.  A third person was found in a home on the Seneca Creek Road near the Oconee Airport.  This morning Addis said he […]

    Seneca – Frances Hughes Waters, 89, widow of the late Archie Waters, of 202 W. Quincy Road, passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017 at Oconee Medical Center. A funeral service will be held 3 pm, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at Trinity Baptist Church.  The family will receive friends from 1:30-3:00 pm, prior to the service at the church.  […]

  The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network needs volunteers to take precipitation measurements across South Carolina.  The non-profit is made up of volunteers of all ages who work together to measure and map precipitation for natural resource, education, and research applications.  For more information, contact Hope Mizzell.  She’s the state climatologist at [email protected].

The Walhalla City Council will hold a kick-off meeting at 5:30 Monday at the Depot for the design guidelines process. This will be an informational session regarding creating design guidelines for the Downtown Development District.  

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that Duke Energy’s Oconee nuclear plant has completed all activities specified by a 2013 Confirmatory Order to meet requirements connected to its transition to new fire protection standards. The three-unit was one of the first plants in the country to begin the transition to National Fire Protection Association 805, a more risk-based standard for […]

Molly Spearman was elected by the people to be the South Carolina Superintendent of Education.  But now in office in her first term, Spearman believes there’s a better way.  She supports stripping the voters of the choice and allowing the governor to choose the person who carries out the state’s public education policies.  State Senator Thomas Alexander believes there will […]

  Requests to vary and to grant special exception to Oconee County’s zoning rules go before a panel Monday night in Walhalla.  Representatives of a Mountain Rest school for troubled boys will return to the Board of Zoning Appeals to request an exception to allow expansion of their group residential facility.  In recent years, neighbors of the Whetstone Academy have […]