Category: News

A movement is afoot to do away with South Carolina’s exit exam for high school students and the requirement that students must pass the test as a condition for graduation. Parents, teachers, and lawmakers are among those who believe one test should no longer determine a student’s future. And Dr. Mike Lucas, Oconee Superintendent of Education, does not disagree. Lucas […]

The investigation of a fight reported on the street yesterday morning in a Seneca residential neighborhood has landed one man in jail. The police say that, after being called to Williams Street, they arrested James Willie Walker on three charges. Authorities listed the following charges against the 40-year old Walker: assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, disorderly […]

West Union’s boil water advisory is no more! Mayor Linda Oliver this morning said the advisory, issued Friday, has been lifted. The mayor has promised 96.3/WGOG NEWS to gather more information about the broken water main that, for a time, interrupted the small town’s water supply.

The Forest Service is undertaking a prescribed burn today in Oconee County. A spokesman for the USFS says today’s burn is planned for 560 acres in Choehee Valley near Lake Cherokee.

U-S Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina says the Boston Marathon bombings show America’s strong resolve against national acts of terrorism. In the Weekly Republican Address, Scott said, “To those who would attack America or our citizens, let me say this—there is no corner on earth, no hiding place in America to keep us from finding you.” Scott says America […]

Jimmy Watt, public information officer for the Oconee Sheriff’s Department, represented the department during a “Zero Tolerance for Litter” press conference on the statehouse grounds in Columbia. Law enforcement officers and officials from across the state attended. And the Oconee Sheriff’s Office is taking part in the “Zero Tolerance for Litter” campaign this month, as part of efforts to combat […]

A pardon and expungement workshop takes place at 3:30 this afternoon in Seneca at the SC Works Center at 11091 Radio Station Road. The workshop is designed to provide information regarding provisions in state law for the expungement of an arrest record or for the possibility of a pardon. And on 96.3/WGOG NEWS today Greg Stewart, agent-in-charge of the Oconee […]

A road paver has announced it will be at work on projects this week in Oconee and Pickens counties. Today is the start of work by King Asphalt on highway 11 between Antioch Church Road and Sunset community. That work is scheduled to last until around May 7. Tomorrow King will work on the Coneross Creek Road between SC 24 […]

NBC news is reporting the 2nd bombing suspect is in custody now.  Please click here to read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17823265-its-over-boston-bombing-suspect-captured-alive-police-say?lite

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured Friday night after police found him in a boat in a suburban backyard following a bloody rampage and daylong manhunt, law enforcement sources said. Cheers went up from a crowd of police gathered at the scene in Watertown, Mass., where bursts of gunfire had been heard over the course of two hours. The […]