Category: News

A Dixie Youth baseball tournament at Seneca is underway this week, with one less entrant. City Recreation Director Rick Lacey has confirmed that, following a protest made by a Walhalla coach, the Townville Recreation Department withdrew its teams from 7 and 8-year old competition. The protest involved a game Tuesday night and a question of whether one of the Townville […]

The organization that strives to connect companies and employers in the tri-counties has a new official in charge. Doug Allen, a former personnel director for a major manufacturer, has been named executive director of WorkLink Workforce Investment Board, serving Oconee, Anderson and Pickens counties.

Oconee County park officials say the crowds during the Memorial Day weekend filled two county parks beyond capacity. Phil Shirley, director of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, says the county was happy to host the visitors. At one point, High Falls Park had to close the gate to additional guests. Some of those turned away found recreation opportunities at the South […]

The current owner of a Seneca house that dates back to the late 1800s will be permitted to demolish the structure, but a city regulatory board will require an area sought for parking to be left as green space. The Board of Architectural Review Tuesday night approved a certificate of appropriateness for the Seneca Presbyterian Church for the demolition project […]

Developer Neal Workman makes a presentation tonight during the annual membership meeting and awards dinner of the Greater Walhalla Area Chamber of Commerce. The presentation by Workman, chairman of Trehel Corporation, is titled, “Community Vibrancy…It Requires Choices.” The dinner takes place at 6 at the Walhalla Civic Auditorium.

The Greenville-Pickens solicitor today announced that a judge has sent a Pickens County man to prison for 12 years after being convicted of committing or attempting lewd act on a child. The sentence was handed down to Edgar Bartholmen Merrifield. According to Solicitor Walt Wilkins, evidence presented by assistant solicitor Jenny Barwick established that Merrifield on multiple occasions touched a […]

Three public hearings take place next week in the Carolinas and Georgia to gather public opinion for the development of a passenger rail corridor plan for new service between Atlanta and Charlotte. One of those hearings takes place in the Greenville area—-from 4 to 7 p-m Wednesday, June 5 in Greer at 301 E. Poinsett Street. The Atlanta to Charlotte […]

The package of library improvements countywide have rated 40.1%, according to a ranking assigned today by the Oconee Capital Project Advisory Committee. Based on a scale of one-to-one-hundred, 40 sounds low—but not actually, in the opinion of committee chairman Paul Corbeil and fellow committee member Scott Moulder, county administrator. Moulder said the scoring is based on a weighted scale. “I […]

The count is not final. But City Administrator Greg Dietterick says at least 8,300 tickets were sold for the Charlie Daniels concert Saturday night in Seneca. Tickets were priced at $5 dollars for the concert portions of Seneca’s 2013 Memorial Day celebration at Gignilliat Field.  

Oconee Medical Center reports a positive bottom line last month. But make no mistake about it, revenues above expenses do not translate to higher income from patients. “We actually achieve it primarily by expense management,” Hunter Kome, vice president for operations explains in an interview airing today on 96.3/WGOG NEWS. Kome says the last five months of the hospital’s governing […]