Category: News

The T-Ed Garrison family of Anderson County has requested that a ceremony that honors a late son proceed as scheduled this week. It’s the opening of the Bart Garrison Agricultural Museum at 4:45 Friday afternoon on History Lane—not far from the Pendleton campus of Tri-County Technical College. The Garrison family lost its modern day patriarch, former State Senator Ed Garrison, […]

Walhalla’s budgets to operate another year of city government officially go on display this evening at the City Hall. The city leaders welcome the public to comment or ask questions as part of a public hearing that begins at 5:25. The proposed budgets raise sanitation and recreation charges. The hearing will be followed by council’s regular June meeting.  

Father’s Day was merely two and a half hours old before Oconee deputies made drug arrests near Seneca. Deputies went to 410 Holder’s Landing Road to investigate reports of a fight and shots fired in a parking lot. They wound up arresting two people and collecting a handgun from the woods. Authorities say Rashaun Roberson, 24, was charged with possession […]

The long-time state senator from Denver Downs is being called a visionary for helping shape the tri-counties. While Ed Garrison represented Anderson County in the legislature, he had a vision to promote neighboring Oconee and Pickens counties. And Vicki Fletcher says nowhere is that more evident than in Garrison’s work to create South Carolina’s first regional tourism and historic preservation […]

A former manufacturing building near Westminster will become the location for a Greenville business that’s moving its operations to Oconee County. Though small in size, Window Repair Systems has chosen Oconee based on the county’s business climate, according to Richard Blackwell, Oconee economic development recruiter. Window Repair is setting up shop in the former Sponsler Building on U-S 123, across […]

State representatives hit the highways tomorrow for a return trip to Columbia. The business at hand will be action on the state’s proposed budget. A preview from District One’s Bill Whitmire, a retired Walhalla teacher, can be heard today on 96.3/WGOG NEWS.

How does Seneca top the Charlie Daniels Band? How do you spell H-u-e-y L-e-w-i-s a-n-d T-h-e N-e-w-s? A Seneca councilman said he recently watched a televised performance of the rock band which produced big hits in the 1980s and imagined them performing at one of Seneca’s outdoor concert events. But Joel Ward, chairman of the Seneca Events Committee, said, at […]

The broadband project to spread high-speed internet service across Oconee County recently brought fiber optic cable to Deadman’s Curve on highway 28 north of Walhalla. Workers were seen installing fiber optic in the same general area where a tropical storm washed out part of the road a few years ago.  

The federal government will allow the new owners of a planned lake marina in Pickens County more time to finish the job. A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission order this week allows a group called Keowee Investment Properties LLC until October 13, 2015 to build a residential marina to serve a new home development on the Pickens County side of Lake […]

Deputies and narcotics officers carried a search warrant to a home near Walhalla and made two arrests. The occupant of that home was the first person arrested, according to Jimmy Watt, spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Department. Fred Nathan McCall of Little River Lane was charged with possession of a controlled substance and distribution of methamphetamine. Deputies say drug paraphernalia, […]