Category: News

Funding to start and finish a new federal courthouse in Greenville hinges on a year-end vote by Congress, and Senator Lindsey Graham says he’s pleased.  The new courthouse is to be called the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Federal Courthouse, to honor the late governor.  It’s expected to be a 10-story building covering two acres across the street from the Greenville […]

In a meeting this morning at City Hall, the Seneca Finance Committee recommended approval of $158 thousand worth of applications for funds from the city’s “HAT” account–the Hospitality and Accommodations Tax fund.  A total of $60 thousand was recommended to pay for the Seneca Fest on Memorial Day weekend 2016.

The newest figures peg the Oconee County jobless rate practically halfway between the state and the national averages.  For November, 5.2% of the Oconee workforce was out of work but actively trying to find new employment.  According to the state Department of Employment and Workforce, 33,426 members of the county’s total workforce of 35,259 are gainfully employed.  The seasonally adjusted […]

Authorities at the traffic accident scene in front of Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary say the main two things to take from this morning’s accident are no injuries and the crash occurred by the time most school traffic had come and gone.  The accident, around 8:15 this morning, involved a car and two small pickup trucks and is investigated by city […]

The sitting Oconee County treasurer is going to stand in 2016 for public office once again.  Greg Nowell last night announced his intent to run for a third term as Oconee Treasurer.  A retired CPA, Nowell has served the county since February 1, 2007.  

A Verizon representative predicts a new communications tower will be finished and on-the-air for service from Bountyland by the middle part of next year.  Officials involved in the permitting and real estate dealings required to put up a 95-foot monopole on SC 28/the Blue Ridge Boulevard have responded to cell phone customers’ inquiries received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS.  Jim La Pann, […]

A helicopter and a special lift bucket lowered thousands of rainbow and brown trout this week into the lower Saluda River near Columbia.  They came from the Walhalla National Fish Hatchery in Oconee County.  The cold waters released from the bottom of Lake Murray provide suitable habitat for the trout in the Saluda River, creating a unique and popular fishery […]

A ceremony yesterday in Greenville awarded degrees to about 1,250 Clemson University students.  On the Clemson campus, 82 doctoral degrees were handed out in the university’s first Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.  The doctoral hood is a symbolic honor to scholars who have attained the highest level of formal education.  Clemson President Clements encouraged the new Ph.D.s to use their talents and […]

A Mountain Rest man remained in jail late yesterday afternoon under a combined surety bond amounting to $180 thousand.  The Sheriff’s Office announced warrants charging 61-year old Robert Lee with an in-appropriate relationship with a 15-year old girl.  The charges are listed as criminal solicitation of a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, and criminal sexual conduct with a minor.  […]

At last report, state troopers continued to investigate an accident this afternoon on n. highway 11 not far from Walhalla High.  Authorities say a van and a tractor-trailer trucker were involved and the van, according to Oconee Fire Chief Charlie King, left the scene but was later stopped by the West Union police.  The tractor-trailer truck sustained a significant diesel […]