Category: News

A circuit judge has entered a civil judgment and lien against a Westminster woman who took campaign and personal money belonging to U-S Senator Lindsey Graham. In a ruling last week in the case of Mary Jennifer Adams, a former office worker for the senator, Judge Alex Macaulay said, “After hearing the evidence, I find that no cause was shown […]

Residents of Clemson have the chance this year to run for their city council. The Pickens County Registration and Elections Commission will hold the City of Clemson Municipal Election November 4, 2014, and three non-partisan seats on city council are available. Those who wish to file as candidates may do so between noon Friday, July 18 and noon Friday, August […]

A check with the National Crime Information Center enabled sheriff’s officers to serve arrest warrants on a 40-year old OconeeCounty man.  Those arrest warrants naming Chad Tyron Lee of the Campbell Bridge Road date back to the year 2003.  According to the arrest announcement, Lee had gone to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office to change his address—a requirement of those […]

The state patrol investigated an accident this morning in front of Oconee County’s Corinth-Shiloh Volunteer Fire Department. Authorities say the accident involved a private vehicle and an Oconee County spare fire engine whose driver was stopped to make a turn into the station. No one reported injured. County Fire Chief Charlie King described the damage to the fire engine as […]

Nearly 500 thousand South Carolinians are expected to hit the road for the July 4 holiday. They will find gas pump prices the highest since 2008 but still the lowest in the country. The motor club AAA finds gas prices 21 cents higher than last year—in part to the unrest in Iraq. The prices are being propped up at a […]

An early morning chase that started in Oconee County ended with the crash of the suspect’s car three counties away inside Georgia on I-85. And the driver of that Chevy Blazer is reported to have required a medical airlift around 1:30 this morning from Banks Crossing to Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. He has been identified in police reports as Kenneth […]

Oconee County enjoyed weather in the 90s yesterday, if enjoy is the appropriate word. The official Walhalla high reading reached 92 degrees—as recorded by Weather Observer Barbara Wilson. Oconee’s July 4 weather has varied for at least the last three years. Hot this year, soaking wet last year, and so hot in 2012 that the county back then baked in […]

A car fire yesterday inside a Seneca garage left the man working on that car with burns and smoke inhalation. The man, who was not identified to 96.3/WGOG NEWS, was flown by helicopter from the Seneca Fire Department last evening to regional burn treatment center at Augusta, Georgia. Seneca fire fighter Fabian Skelton said the car fire occurred late yesterday […]

South Carolina Emergency Management Division is monitoring the first named storm of the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season. As a result of the projected movement of tropical storm Arthur up the east coast, key agencies in South Carolina government have been notified to be ready to respond, if needed. Those in potentially vulnerable areas should review their plans and consider actions […]

In the general budget for the town of Salem, income and expenses are balanced—-at the figure of $549 thousand dollars. Salem’s new government year started today, after the budget was submitted for action during a special council meeting last night. The largest item of anticipated income during the next 12 months is $200 thousand, from a fire contract with Oconee […]