Category: News

A public hearing this week marked the end of a water line improvement project in one of Walhalla’s oldest neighborhoods.  A representative of the local government service agency, the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments, presided at the City Hall hearing for the purpose of reviewing how well the water upgrade was carried out in the city’s Chicopee Mill Village.  […]

The state is hoping that local communities will start to plan now for mosquito-borne illnesses that warmer weather will bring.  The historic flooding in October, coupled with a relatively warm winter, has the potential to increase mosquito populations and the threat of disease.  The state Department of Health and Environmental Control urges local governments to review, update or create ordinances […]

Two branches of the Oconee County Public Library are being freshened up next month with new carpet, but that means those two branches will be closed a couple of days. The Westminster Branch will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, March 9 and 10.  The Seneca Library will be closed Monday and Tuesday, March 14 and 15. All other locations will […]

At an I-85 traffic stop, trooper Kevin Rholetter said the driver of an Audi automobile told him the car was carrying seven pounds of marijuana.  Rholetter quotes Anousack Thanonglit as saying he was on his way from Atlanta to Charlotte and was being paid $700 dollars to transport the drugs.  Thanonglit went on trial yesterday in the Oconee General Sessions […]

By late last night, nearly 800 customers within the multi-county Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative area remained without electric power.  Eighty-two of those customers were in Oconee County.  Among outages reported yesterday to 101.7/WGOG NEWS were the Westminster and Keowee Key areas.  School buses delivering students home encountered downed lines—the result of a rainy and windy afternoon.  Blue Ridge crews were […]

A young couple in the Foxwood Hills subdivision of Oconee has been arrested in a Sheriff’s Officefour-week investigation of child abuse.  Caroline Shaw and Travis Robert William Nix were charged with unlawful neglect of a child.  Officers say they discovered the 12-week old boy in the emergency room of the hospital and determined that he had suffered arm, ankle, and […]

A Georgia man whose car was stopped on I-85 in Oconee for speeding a year and a half ago wound up charged with drug offenses.  This afternoon Atlanta area resident Anousack Thanonglit heads to trial at the Oconee Courthouse, charged with trafficking in cocaine and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.  In pre-trial testimony this morning, officer Kevin Rholetter […]

Police on the Clemson University campus have arrested and charged a Pendleton man with a weapons violation.  The university announcement states Charles Alan Brown was charged yesterday with the felony offense of possession of a firearm on school property.  The police say the firearm was located in an apartment in Calhoun Court.  At the time the 23-year old Brown was […]

Ahead of Saturday’s Democratic Presidential Primary vote in South Carolina, the state Election Commission issued a statement in which it says, “While having a Photo ID, and bringing it to the polls, will make the voting process easier; no registered voter in the correct polling place should ever be denied a ballot, whether the voter has a Photo ID or […]

President Obama wants the chapter closed on the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but he’s facing Republican opposition to the proposal to re-locate detainees to the U-S.  Third District Republican Jeff Duncan is especially concerned about the idea that some of those detainees, accused of violent acts against the U-S, could wind up in South Carolina.  Duncan announced yesterday legislation […]