Category: News

Just who is the next Garth Brooks or Miranda Lambert? That person just might be one of the performers tomorrow night in Seneca, when 96.3/WGOG stages its annual Texaco Country Showdown. The show starts at 7 in the Gignilliat Community Center. Each year more than 50 thousand contestants compete in local, state and regional live shows. Winners advance to the […]

Plans by Walhalla’s St. Francis Catholic Church to add a bathroom are headed for a public hearing to be held by the city Board of Zoning Appeals. On behalf of St. Joseph Construction Company, Tom Kriese seeks a special exception to allow the addition less than 50 feet from the property line at 103 W. Mauldin Street. The hearing takes […]

Jobless claims increased in June in both Oconee County and South Carolina. The statewide increase was reported slight by the Department of Employment and Workforce. Oconee County, however, saw a full one percentage point increase in the numbers of those filing new claims. The Oconee rate rose from 8.3% in May to 9.3% in June. Oconee’s rate remained about the […]

A Pickens County crash took the life yesterday of a motorcycle passenger. Coroner Kandy Kelley identified the deceased as a 30-year old Six Mile woman, Sylvia Crain. According to the coroner, Crain was not wearing a helmet. State trooper Brent Kelley reported the accident on 133 involved a pickup truck and a motorcycle and occurred when the motorcycle approached a […]

Fire has broken out in a home in the Cleveland Community near the Georgia line. Rural Fire Control reports “a working fire” at 928 Cleveland Pike Road. The Cleveland Volunteer Fire Department responded to the first call at 5:05 this morning. Several other fire stations are providing aid, including at least one from nearby Stephens County, Georgia.  

A sister of an Oconee County woman jailed in Idaho says she wants the public to know that her sister is a loving mother. Maryland resident Kathy DeAngelis called 96.3/WGOG NEWS and asked if she could put in a good word for Laverne Bennett, the sister now held in a jail in Cour d’ Alene, Idaho. “Laverne is a wonderful […]

Fire fighters put a stop to a West Union home fire this morning on Elizabeth Street—behind the former Dairy Queen and not far from the Walhalla city limit. Capt. Mark Hollifield said an investigation as to the cause of that fire is underway. At the time, no one was in that trailer home. According to Hollifield, a hydrant across West […]

A Northland cable television truck driver was left shaken when his truck rolled down a Walhalla hill this morning and struck a house. The Ford F-150 had just been pulled from a muddy surface when it began to roll and get away. Lt. Paul Harris of the Walhalla Police say the driver, Elton Parker, ran to try to take control […]

Oconee County deputy sheriff John Aguilar graduates tomorrow from the basic law enforcement class at the S-C Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia. Aguilar and other graduates come from 17 of the state’s 46 counties. Senator Tim Scott will make the featured address at the ceremony.

At this hour, fire fighters remain at the scene of a mobile home fire, behind the former Dairy Queen at West Union. Late word is the fire has been put out.