Category: News

The potential for tropical storm conditions along the South Carolina coast could mean heavy rain that causes coastal and flash flooding and wind.  There is also the danger of deadly rip tides as the storm continues to track up the coast, and the Red Cross urges those in the path to get ready. “With South Carolina being threatened by tropical […]

In a case brought to court by Oconee’s Friendship Volunteer Fire Department, a judge has issued an order. The 10th circuit’s master-in-equity, Steven Kirven, ruled this month in a dispute over the rightful owner of 1.73 acres across from the fire station.  Kirven ruled invalid a purported contract between defendants Chris Christian and R&M Investments of Oconee.  Kirven directed Christian […]

The Census Bureau next spring will conduct a housing survey in the Clemson area, and the city says the results of this survey will eventually help both long and short-range city planning.  The results are to be made available late next year or early 2018.  The next U-S census takes place in 2020.  To those asked to be surveyed, Clemson […]

  A consultant for Westminster preached patience during a presentation and said time will be needed before conservation measures bring down the city’s electric power costs.  Ted Orrel’s audience last night included the mayor and council, but also several citizens concerned about the economic impact on both the city and its retail customers.  Part of the solution recommended by Orrel’s […]

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Law Enforcement Division will  conduct courtesy boat inspections at certain public boat landings this Labor Day weekend. This holiday is among the busiest times of the year for South Carolina lakes and waterways, and boating safety is highly encouraged.  SCDNR boating safety and enforcement officers will perform quick but thorough inspections for required […]

A second arrest has been announced in the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office investigation of a weekend shooting at the Central apartment complex “The Cottages of Clemson.”  Arrested yesterday in Lexington County was Jackson Quaid Rowland.  A Chapin resident, Rowland is charged with attempted murder and the possession of a weapon during a violent crime.  The man wounded, identified as 21-year […]

One of the first announcers in WGOG’s 57 years has written the first and only history of the station that settled in what had been a cotton patch and went on the air on tax day in 1959.  The retired WGOG manager Marvin Hill realized that if ever someone wrote the station’s history, he likely would be best suited to […]

An arrest has been reported in the weekend shooting of a Tri-County Tech student at a Central apartment complex.  Pickens County Sheriff’s Office has announced a 21-year old man, Daniel Heath Dixon, has been jailed and charged with accessory after the fact of a felony.  The wounded Tech student was identified as a 21-year old resident of the Newberry County […]

More pre-trial maneuvers yesterday in the civil case of a Beaufort County woman who claims she lost a one million dollar trust that was controlled by a former Oconee banker.  In the case of Brookshire versus Community First, attorneys for the bank yesterday sought a judge’s ruling that plaintiff Debbie Baker Brookshire produce a box of documents which the defense […]