Category: News

The Pickens County Legislative Delegation meets at 5:30 this evening at the Carr Center (West End Hall) in Easley, and the county’s Republican Party chairman says the meeting will be interesting from a number of financial aspects. Phillip Bowers, the GOP chairman, said, “We will likely hear about a gas tax hike.” Bowers, however, said he wants to hear an […]

An arrest warrant served by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office charges a Seneca man with breach of trust. Richard Barrett Thompson, 41 years old, was booked into the Oconee Detention Center Tuesday after a highway patrol traffic stop on highway 24 at Shady Lane. State troopers learned through the National Crime Information Center that an outstanding warrant existed for Thompson’s arrest. […]

National Weather Service is warning 96.3/WGOG land to anticipate bitterly cold wind chills across the western Carolinas and northeast Georgia. We can expect this significant cold wave to last the rest of the work week. An Arctic airmass is building across the region today and will persist into Friday. Temperatures tonight and tomorrow should yield the coldest conditions since last […]

Although tomorrow is forecast as a 14-degree morning, the plan is for Oconee public schools to run on regular time. Yet, in advance of this major drop in temperatures, the public schools are taking precautions starting today. Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent for operations, says those precautions include having maintenance personnel to report to schools by 6:30 tomorrow morning to try […]

T-J Bagwell believes that when it comes to what it will cost to borrow money toward a $17 million dollar Walhalla water plant, it’s better to pay more now than wait for when the bills come due. That’s why Bagwell, appointed last night as chairman of the Walhalla utilities committee, proposes a water rate increase. During a non-action meeting last […]

Pioneer Rural Water District closed out 2014 with optimism that perhaps spring time will allow for bids to hit the street for the district’s first treatment plant. But Pioneer’s outside engineering consultant, Chuck Joye, doused that optimism yesterday when he backtracked during a meeting of the Pioneer board of directors. “Progress is being made, but it is slow,” Joye said. […]

  Public safety responders came to the aid of a woman and her dog when the woman’s car flipped late yesterday morning on I-85.  The accident occurred in the vicinity of exit 2, highway 59.  Fair Play Fire Department reported no major injuries.

At least two factors appear to be contributing to an increase in marriage ceremonies at the Oconee County Probate Judge’s Office in Walhalla. The office has always been a place where you not only apply to get hitched, but offers ceremonies for those willing to pay a fee to say the matrimonial vows. Judge Kenny Johns, sometimes called the marrying […]

The courts have decided a pair of zoning challenges that members of the public mounted against Oconee County and some of its officials. But in their aftermath there remain lingering concerns, according to some members of the Oconee County Council. And they, particularly Paul Cain and newly-elected chairman Wayne McCall, want to see emails that were written while the cases […]

The new Oconee County Council delegated County Administrator Scott Moulder last night with the task of determining the cost-saving potential for hiring an in-house attorney. District Four’s Joel Thrift nominated Tom Martin of Anderson to be reappointed county attorney, but District One’s Edda Cammick said she favors hiring someone who would keep an office in the county administrative complex and […]