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Construction should begin by this summer on a $40 million raw water storage impoundment for the City of Savannah, Georgia—as part of environmental mitigation for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project.  The Army Corps of Engineers awarded Thalle Construction Company of Hillsborough, North Carolina to build the 17-acre impoundment in Effingham County, Georgia.  The small reservoir is to provide an additional […]

The trustees who govern the Greenville Health System, which includes the Oconee Memorial Hospital, are scheduled to act next week on a governance resolution that apparently would move public non-profit GHS closer to being part of a large private, non-profit multi-regional system.  As one local hospital source explained it to us it would allow GHS to remain a major player […]

Graduates, along with their friends and family members, are on the campus this weekend at Southern Wesleyan University in Central.  About 313 degrees are being awarded to December graduates.  Students in the university’s traditional program are taking part in a 3 o’clock ceremony this afternoon in Newton Hobson Chapel and Fine Arts Center.  At 3 tomorrow, it’ll be time for […]

Early next year Oconeeans who want to be involved in the 2016 election process will have decisions and deadlines to meet.   For those who want the nomination of the party of their choice, candidate qualifying will start in mid March.  County Clerk of Court Beverly Whitfield, a Republican, told 101.7/WGOG NEWS she will be a candidate next year for re-election.  […]

Oconee School District has entered the Common Pleas Court to request that a challenge to closing the Tamassee-Salem Middle/High School be dismissed and the district be awarded court costs.  In its official answer this week to a claim by Lynne Martin, an attorney for the school district, said, “The plaintiff is without proper standing as to her claim.”  In late […]

Salem resident Jane Finfrock will make a new home for the offspring of a cow that witnessed its mother’s death in a traffic accident.  Finfrock was the winning applicant of 150 submitted to the Oconee Animal Shelter.  The only cost associated is a $200 dollar adoption fee.  Before the adoption is completed, Animal Control officers will check the Salem resident’s […]

Unless there’s an appeal to the circuit court, there will be no Dollar General at a 4-way stop intersection in rural Oconee.  The final vote taken last night by the county Board of Zoning Appeals denied a Woodruff-based development company the special exception that it needed to build a 9,100 square foot Dollar General at Ebenezer Road and SC 188/the […]

A section of South Carolina 24 in the Crossroads-Oakway area reopened to traffic last night after a three-vehicle accident about six hours earlier. Charlie King, Oconee fire chief, said the accident involved two SUVs and a dump truck, and two of the vehicles caught fire. Three people were taken to the hospital.

Unscrupulous individuals who use the telephone to try to cheat the law-abiding public out of their money are working around the clock.  And Jimmy Watt of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office says that means scammers are plying their illegal craft 24/7/365, and the public must stand on guard.  Watt, the public information officer, appealed today to the media for ideas on […]

Pictured here are volunteers from the Walhalla Middle School Student Council.  They pitched in to help at Seneca’s Our Daily Bread soup kitchen.