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Production at a manufacturing plant near Westminster is expected to increase as the result of an expansion announcement. Sandvik Inc., maker of carbide inserts for the metal cutting industry, is announcing a $12 million investment. And the director of its Westminster production unit, Anders Hillman, says, “This investment is a continuation of our commitment to maintain world class manufacturing in […]

Reports today out of Greenwood indicate that Gene Cathcart is leaving his job as the head football coach of the Greenwood Eagles to become the next head coach of the Seneca Bobcats. A Greenwood newspaper and the high school’s face book site are both reporting Cathcart is Seneca bound. However, on the Oconee County side of things, things are not […]

Oconee public school students get a break today! It’s an in-service day across the school district, meaning teachers report but students do not.

Thirty Oconee landowners received information Saturday about conservation easements during a breakfast meeting sponsored by Oconee Forever. Speakers included Shea Airey, chairman of the Oconee Conservation Bank; landowner Rex Ramsey; and Erin Knight, land trust director for Upstate Forever. Ramsey told the story of his family’s land and how he used conservation easements to protect it. Airey described the process […]

The campaign for a hopeful for statewide office from Anderson County describes the candidate as encouraged by the response to his formal announcement for office. Gary Burgess chose Martin Luther King Day to announce his candidacy for state Superintendent of Education. And the Republican chose a former African-American school house in Anderson to make the announcement. Burgess’s campaign describes the […]

Zoning changes are at the forefront of public hearings tonight in Seneca and Westminster. At Seneca City Hall, David Thompson and James Montague go before the planning commission to request a neighborhood commercial zone for 923 and 924 E. Main Street. Those properties are now zoned R-6. The hearing begins at 6 o’clock. As part of their regular January meeting, […]

Oconee County Councilman Archie Barron has died. Council Chairman Joel Thrift says Barron died at 4:30 yesterday afternoon at Oconee Medical Center. An announcement is to be made this morning as to the status of tonight’s regularly scheduled council meeting. Barron’s death is being mourned. And one of his admirers tells 96.3/WGOG NEWS her reaction is “sadness beyond words.” Barron […]

The autopsy on a Westminster man missing since December reveals he died of blunt force trauma. That’s according to Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis. The body of 61 year old Richard Alan Marszalek was found Friday in the rubble of a burned mobile home. He was reported missing by his niece a week earlier. Coroner Addis performed the autopsy Sunday […]

Oconee County Fire Chief Charlie King says a search and rescue operation was undertaken Saturday to locate a man missing in the Sid Falls area of Long Creek. At around 5:15 PM the 911 Center received a call from a man who was lost in one of the county’s more remote areas. King says “Phase 2” cell phone location technology […]

Oconee County firefighters responded to a home fire in the South Union Community late Saturday afternoon. Fire Chief Charlie King says the home was located at 180 North Port Bass Road after. The home was a single story, double wide mobile home lake house. King says responders were on the scene within 8 minutes of receiving the call at 4:37 […]