Category: News

An organization that works to save mountain heritage calls attention to the picnic tomorrow to celebrate the effort that saved Stumphouse Mountain in Oconee County from development. According to Naturaland Trust, a developer wanted to carve up Stumphouse. But today 500 acres there are protected by a conservation easement, 500 acres by a DNR heritage trust preserve, and city of […]

The South Carolina Department of Education released letter grades for the state’s public schools yesterday based on student achievement and improvement during 2012-13. Pickens County’s only charter school, the Youth Leadership Academy, is one of 33 schools achieving a perfect score of 100. The letter grades were a key component of the state’s approved flexibility request from certain provisions of […]

The Walhalla mayor plans to pick up the telephone to find out the status of the municipal swimming pool. Mayor Danny Edwards told 96.3/WGOG NEWS last night he was unsure of what the latest might be. After a major public-private effort to make repairs, the pool is full of water and sports a fresh paint job. Apparently, however, a shortage […]

A letter this week questioning whether the project to sewer southern parts of Oconee County is in a delay has prompted a response from the county administrator. On behalf of Voice of Southern Oconee, Glen McPheeters acknowledged that Scott Moulder, county administrator, had given a timeline in March at a meeting attended by more than 50 VOSO members. But McPheeters […]

All Oconee schools, with one exception, met or exceeded expectations for a new rating system developed by the state Department of Education. Results of ESEA, the South Carolina Elementary and Secondary Education Act waiver approved by the U-S Department of Education were released today. Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary, a school with a high percentage of students who come from low […]

Burglars struck a rural church near Salem sometime since Sunday night. They left without taking anything. Still what happened at the Little River Baptist Church is a concern for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, for Sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Watt says this is not the first time that something like this has happened at Little River Baptist.  

Clemson University honors philanthropist and businesswoman Anita Zucker of Charleston with an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities during next week’s summer graduation. The ceremony is planned 11 a-m Friday, August 9 at Littlejohn Coliseum. Zucker is chairperson and CEO of the InterTech Group. She also owns the Carolina Ice Palace, the South Carolina Sting Rays and Tristan restaurant in Charleston. In […]

A magistrate holds to his decision ordering seized gaming machines destroyed. Judge Blake Norton’s ruling denying a new trial arrived yesterday in the offices of Attorney Gruber Sires. The Seneca attorney now says he will decide whether to pursue the appeal in the Common Pleas Court. Sires represents machine owners.The machines were seized this year from Oconee convenience stores, and […]

No surprise! The end of July report from the U-S Weather Observer Barbara Wilson is a record-setter. The records of retired Walhalla school teacher’s family go back to the First World War years. For July, the total rainfall at Walhalla was 15.13”. And for the first seven months of the year, more than 58” are in the record books, more […]

On some of this summer’s warmest days, Seneca High students and their parents could be seen weeding and fertilizing plants the students grew as part of a spring class project. With funds donated by the Knights of Columbus in Seneca, members of the high school’s Transition to Independence special needs class planted and maintained two vegetable gardens. The students spent […]