Category: News

Pioneer Rural Water District customers no longer need to vigorously boil their water prior to drinking or cooking. This boil water advisory affected customers in Oconee County of Heritage Shores Subdivision, Moonlight Bay Subdivision, Parkview East and Parkview South Subdivision along with South Carolina Welcome Center, Rock Creek Road, and Hartwell State Park off Highway 11 in Fair Play, South Carolina. […]

Oconee’s state transportation committee awarded a total of around $7.5 million to resurface parts of various streets and roads across the county, including projects requested by four of the county’s five municipalities.  The county’s state “C” Fund Committee, which allocates monies through the state DOT for farm-to-market type road improvements, voted 3-0 to affirm an earlier email agreement to award […]

A lawsuit alleging negligence by the city of Clemson has been filed for an apartment resident who, the pleadings allege, was hit by a city pickup on Cochran Road in 2023 as the truck mounted a hilltop at a speed above the 25 MPH limit.  Filed in the Pickens Common Pleas Court by Greenville attorney Walter McBrayer Wood, the lawsuit […]

Responding to 101.7/WGOG NEWS’ inquiry about her position on Social Security, Third District Representative Sheri Biggs issued the following statement:  “Maintaining integrity at the Social Security Administration – preventing waste, fraud, and abuse – is just as important as it is with any agency.  The Administration has continued to keep the aim of accountability at the forefront, and I applaud […]

Just what is the condition of the Golden Corner?  A luncheon today is designed to impart what is the State of Oconee.  The chamber of commerce, the economic alliance, and others are sponsoring the ticketed event at Walhalla High School.  And that school’s head coach of its state champion girls’ basketball team, Brian Wimphrie, deliver key remarks.

Glenn Hart, Oconee County councilman, laid out a scenario for how the county’s $25 million bond issue will be applied and when, now that a court challenge against it has been disposed of.  District Five’s Glenn Hart’s comments are in an interview airing today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

A 39-year-old Anderson man was arrested in Oconee County on multiple charges — resulting from a welfare check that started Monday and extended into the following day. Oconee Sheriff’s Office announces charges against Brandon Lysle Vanblarcom that include kidnapping and first-degree burglary. On Monday afternoon officers conducted a welfare check on an adult female at a Tamassee Knob Road address […]

A call has been issued to all local farmers, growers and food producers.  The Foothills Heritage Market opens April 26.  A vendor’s meeting takes place 11 o’clock this Saturday morning (March 22) ay the Market Pavilion, 2063 Sandifer Boulevard, Seneca.

South Carolina government agencies and non-profits may apply for grants up to $20 thousand to fund training, life-saving equipment and technology to help in weather-related disaster planning and recovery operations.  The Duke Energy Foundation says it will set aside $500 thousand through this year to support first responders.  The utility offers this explanation why this matters:  “Hurricane Helene’s impact on […]