Category: News

Erin McKinney has taken a kind of roundabout way to land a job as an Oconee County magistrate.  This afternoon McKinney took the oath of office and will serve as Seneca’s replacement magistrate, to fill an opening created earlier this year by the Todd Simmons resignation.  McKinney has a judicial background that includes working as a part-time Oconee magistrate.  For […]

The social, emotional, and behavioral needs of students was a topic on Saturday that candidates for Seat One, Oconee School Board came back to time after time — especially when their forum conversations touched on mental health needs of young people.  Today Clemson University announced that researchers are at both Clemson and University of South Carolina are partnering with a […]

“Homelessness pandemic” is an item for the agenda of tomorrow night’s city hall work session of the Seneca City Hall.  Ronnie O’Kelley, the mayor pro-tem, talks (in a 101.7/WGOG NEWS interview) about the difficult problems of homelessness and admits there’s no easy solution to the nationwide problem.

Walhalla Fire and Rescue finished the weekend with the rescue of a visitor to Yellow Branch Falls and a fire in an abandoned structure.  According to the fire department, last night’s late hour fire burned a structure on the Hesse Highway which, at the time, was being dismantled.  A visitor late yesterday afternoon to Yellow Branch Falls received a rescue […]

“Intimidation, harassment and bullying in schools has been around since the beginning of time.”  The group “Citizens for Childhood Education” used that statement to kick-start a question to District One school board candidates about what’s possible to eliminate harassment incidents in the public schools. Dean Bare, Keri Unsworth, and Amanda Holder don’t hold out great hope the problem can ever […]

Saturday was a chance for the one man and two women competing for Seat One, Oconee School Board to meet and greet the public at a Keowee Key events.  The one woman and three men vying for Seat Three get their chance at a second “Citizens for Childhood Education in Oconee” event to take place 10 to 11:30 am Saturday, […]

An over-night home fire in the Walhalla fire protection service area.  Fire fighters were sent to the Hesse Highway near SC 183/the Westminster Highway, just before 11:30 last night and remained at that fire scene until 2 o’clock this morning.  No injuries, according to an initial first report to 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

Jody Gaulin, chairwoman of Oconee Democrats, announced yesterday she has spoken with Dr. Billy Campbell about running for the office of county coroner in 2024, the year that veteran Coroner Karl Addis says he will retire from office. At her party’s South Cove Park picnic, Gaulin said of Campbell, “He might do it.  I’ve already talked to him.”  The lack […]

Oconee Democrats clapped, cheered, and stood admiringly for their nominee for governor last evening during a BBQ picnic near Seneca.  They are pinning their hopes on November 8 on a 40-year-old man who argues that the Republican incumbent’s policies are outdated for a South Carolina that wants to move from the past to a new future.  The audience that filled […]

Transgender movement, critical race theory, school bullies.  All three were fodder yesterday when the three candidates for Seat One, Oconee School Board took part in a forum at Keowee Key, arranged by Citizens for Childhood Education in Oconee.  Dean Bare, incumbent candidate, said this to the question of whether the transgender movement will ever become an issue for Oconee’s five […]