Category: News

Chairman Matthew Durham of Oconee County Council says the November General Election is a better time for Corinth-Shiloh voters to decide the referendum for a special tax district than the middle of summer.  That is why, Durham says, he has decided that at tomorrow night’s council meeting there’ll be a resolution to set the referendum for November 5, in place […]

A 52-year-old Townville man was killed early yesterday in the wreck of a pickup truck.  The coroner and the state patrol said the accident that took the life of David Allen Hauser occurred around 1:30 in the morning at O’Neal Ferry Road and Watson Road.  Greg Shore, the Anderson coroner, says the preliminary investigation shows Mr. Hauser, the driver, and […]

Seven Oconee County rural and municipal roads and streets have made the state’s next pavement improvement program.  The DOT Commission yesterday approved the 2025 pavement program by adding another $719 million funds. This is the 8th year of an accelerated program, and the commissioners’ action yesterday adds another 727 miles of roads.  Oconee motorists should see improvements to the following:  […]

The DOT has filled some of potholes on a heavily-traveled secondary road near Seneca, but according to a member of Oconee’s State “C” Fund Committee, the results leave something to be desired.  The “C” Fund Committee’s Dick Cottingham yesterday pressed the DOT’s Randy Russell to re-examine the Old Seneca-Clemson Highway.  The section that Cottingham believes needs further work is that […]

Two separate 9-1-1 calls claimed a bomb in a Seneca supermarket, and for about an hour and a half yesterday afternoon the Food Lion in Keowee Village Center was evacuated and pedestrian and vehicle traffic in that area were held back.  But a search by a bomb-sniffing dog and other resources produced no explosives, and the Food Lion was permitted […]

A nearly two-hour political event has ended at Keowee Key.  Nearly every seat in the golf club dining hall was occupied by members of the Oconee Republican Women’s Club.  Radio and podcast broadcaster Joey Hudson moderated a forum for the two men and one woman who are seeking the GOP nomination next month for 10th Circuit Solicitor–the job of chief […]

Nearly $657 thousand dollars was authorized today by the Oconee State “C” Fund Committee to improve nine Seneca streets, some of them left damaged by the EF-3 tornado four years ago.  At the top of the list for paving, according to assistant city administrator Ryan Thomas, is “B” Minor Street, not far from Dalton Road.  Thomas and Ernie Beck, public […]

A Westminster area man has been ordered to prison for 18 years after he admitted a sex crime against a child.  Judge Maddox today in the Oconee General Sessions courtroom sentenced Eddie Hubert Derrick of the Theo Martin Road to the maximum sentence of 20 years, suspended to 18 years in prison for second degree criminal sexual conduct with a […]

Mayor Tim Hall is speaking to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about Walhalla’s next budget, calculated at $17 million and which received preliminary approval during this week’s city council meeting.  It’s a budget reflecting three percent pay raises for employees and the rising costs brought on by inflation.  To help generate the revenues, Walhalla projects a 6% increase in property taxes – the […]