Category: News

A live radio auction returns tomorrow to the airwaves of 101.7/WGOG.  The fun begins at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning when we sell store items, gift certificates and services offered by local merchants and business.  What’s available can be viewed ahead of time on our website at wgog.com.  All you have to do to get in on the fun is to […]

The first official events of the Mayberry Comes to Westminster 2016 festival are tomorrow’s Mayberry Beauty Pageants at 6 p.m. at West-Oak Middle School. There will be judging in four different categories to include Little Miss ages 10-12, Jr. Miss 13-14, Miss ages 15-18 and Mrs. Mayberry with no age limit.  A Best Dressed and Best Personality lady will be […]

The Oconee administrator proposes a tax increase, along with a re-application of debt millage, as a way to arrive at a balanced budget for general county government in 2016-17.  Scott Moulder, the administrator, recommends a 2-point-1 tax mill increase and moving 2-point-5 mills from debt service to the general fund.  Combined those mills, Moulder estimates, would bring in 2-point-3 million […]

Months of investigation led to the arrest this morning of a Walhalla man who the police say is charged with counterfeit/forgery.  Law enforcement authorities identify the arrested man as Nathan Ashley Neal of Wagener Circle.  Capt. Paul Harris said, as part of the investigation, the police seized a printer and other materials from another address.  Harris says Neal was sent […]

Leaving a window partially rolled down in a car parked at an Anderson store this week apparently was enough for a thief to reach in, unlock the door, and steal a woman’s purse that was left on the floorboard.  The police in Anderson are hoping someone from the public can come forward with information that leads to the arrest of […]

Clemson agriculture officials are worried about a destructive and infectious blight discovered in a home garden in Beaufort County.  There the diseased tomato plants were destroyed, but the further spread of late blight light disease to other parts of South Carolina is considered likely if the fungal-like pathogen arrives in spores blown up from Florida.  Making things worse the cool, […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office alerts the public to crimes of shoplifting at the Wal-Mart near Seneca.  A store employee said a white male and white female left the store Tuesday with a laptop computer without paying for it.  The laptop was an Inspiron 300 Touch and is valued at approximately $399.00.  The Sheriff’s Office believes the white male was involved […]

In his capacity as exectuive director of Oconee Economic Alliance, Richard Blackwell frequently pursues tax credit incentives to lure jobs and retain existing jobs.  Blackwell is being recognized by a national organization that advocates new markets tax credit.  He is to receive a Public Executive of the Year Award June 2 in Washington, D-C at the Novogradac New Markets Tax […]

  A Simpsonville man walked out of the Oconee Courthouse today, having been told by the judge that he can expect to receive a monetary award to settle his civil suit alleging sexual abuse.  The case, filed under the pseudonym John Doe, alleges that Richard Trey Gardner abused him beginning when the student was in the 7th grade at Walhalla […]