Category: News

Oconee-Pickens Senator Thomas Alexander knew Clementa Pinckney and mourns the loss of his Senate colleague from Charleston. And the Port City is where Alexander is today for the funeral for Pinckney. It’s a service at which President Obama will deliver the eulogy.

A small car from small town Oklahoma pulled up at 96.3/WGOG … and out stepped Princeton University basketball player Clay Wilson. He’s in Walhalla to visit relatives, including his aunt Ann Anderson, 96.3/WGOG account executive. Just-graduated from Princeton, Wilson finished four years athletic eligibility as a 6-3 shooting/point guard for the Tigers. He has hired an agent and soon hopes […]

More student housing is on the horizon for downtown Clemson. During a special meeting next week, the city council will consider second reading of an ordinance to rezone nearly three and a quarter acres on the east side of Earle and Fendley streets. The requested change is from multi-family residential to planned development for Collegiate Housing. The meeting is planned […]

The new budget in place for Westminster is a spending document that Mayor Rick McCormick believes focuses on community priorities and special performance goals and measures for individual departments. Revenues and expenses are aligned in a format to better communicate spending items and how they relate to the past. Among the funded projects is the completion of the Cobb Bridge […]

Southern Wesleyan University at Central is offering full tuition scholarships for the children of an employee who was one of the victims in last week’s church shootings in Charleston. The scholarships are extended to the four children of  DePayne Milddleton-Doctor. She was employed at the university’s Charleston learning center as an admissions coordinator. She was also a 1994 Southern Wesleyan […]

Honea Path native Caroline Warner has joined the Oconee Economic Alliance as Marketing and Research Manager. Warner’s immediate background included independent social media consultant and Marketing Coordinator for the South Carolina Festival of Flowers in Greenwood. In her new job, Warner is to play an important role in the creative and business development efforts of the county’s Economic Alliance.

A National Guard Blackhawk helicopter swooped in to help in the rescue yesterday of an injured hiker. Rescuers were sent to the Musterground area near the Bad Creek hydro project in Oconee County for an injured hiker three miles into remote wilderness on the Foothills Trail. The rescue party hiked an hour and a half to reach the hiker and […]

A Republican state lawmaker from Greer, Representative Phyllis Henderson, is asking constituents to tell her whether they favor allowing the Confederate flag to fly on the grounds of the State House or whether it should not. It’s an online survey. Henderson calls attention to the events of last week.

Following an executive session last night, Westminster City Council took no action. The council went into a private meeting with its attorney to discuss negotiations related to a Chauga River conservation easement granted Upstate Forever, opposed Brian Ramey and other Ramey neighbors. During public comment, Ramey referred to a proposal that he has made to the city and elaborated on […]

A plan to lay the first sewer pipes along Oconee’s four-mile stretch of interstate highway received a high score today from an advisory committee. The Capital Project Advisory Committee did not differentiate between Phase One or the entire plan as recommended by Richard Blackwell, the county Economic Alliance director. Blackwell estimates fulfilling all sewer needs at three I-85 interchanges will […]