Category: News

A plan has been announced to overcome the sewer permit issued to Oconee’s next shopping center.  The following info is provided to 101,7/WGOG NEWS by Chris Eleazer, executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority:  “We — the developer and the OJRSA — have agreed on a plan to request that SCDES modify the construction permit to reflect the flow […]

A new water storage tank is to strengthen Westminster water service to U-S 76 , the Long Creek Highway, and north of and including the Coffee Road.  The city announces the award by the state of a $594 thousand grant.  The grant requires a local supplement of nearly $279 thousand.  A new tank, to be three times larger than the […]

Pioneer Rural Water customers no longer need to vigorously boil their water prior to drinking or cooking. This boil water advisory affected customers that live on Herring Road, Shore Drive, Durham Road, Fair Play Heights, Tugaloo Heights Circle, Gates Cove Drive, Watersedge Drive, Overlook Drive, East Watersedge Drive, Tugaloo Drive, Heights Drive, and Riverlake Road located south of Interstate I-85 […]

A 10th circuit judge will not allow the state Department of Corrections to be excused from an Oconee County lawsuit to decide whether there’s liability in the death in 2024 of a county inmate.  Judge McIntosh ruled following a hearing this week that the DOC remain a defendant in a claim by Lisa McMahan, personal representative of the estate of […]

An incumbent South Carolina Supreme Court justice from Oconee, John Few, has been deemed qualified and nominated to run for re-election to a new 10-year seat on the state’s high court, according to yesterday’s announcement by the Judicial Merit Selection Commission. Justice Few, a Mountain Rest home owner, faces a challenge, however, from three other men also deemed qualified and […]

Several marked and unmarked squad cars were seen converging around 12:30 pm yesterday afternoon on an address on Walhalla’s Timberline Ridge near Earlestead.  And the result, according to Sheriff Rusty Fulbright of Stephens County, Georgia, apprehension took place of a Michigan man considered an absconder for having allegedly failed to appear in a Michigan court to answer to charges of […]

In recent days, a valuable piece of machinery was stolen from a wooded location off SC 11 in Pickens County.  It’s an orange 2021 Hitachi 135 excavator.  The theft occurred in the woods off highway 11 in the vicinity of Sunset community. Because of an accident, the owner was forced to temporarily leave the trackhoe, and the theft of it […]

Two Oconee crime fighters are among 20 in South Carolina law enforcement who are backing David Stumbo for South Carolina Attorney General.  Stumbo, the solicitor in Greenwood, today welcomed endorsements from the 20 that include Oconee Sheriff Crenshaw and Solicitor Micah Black, the 10th circuit solicitor based in Anderson.

A large white building at Oconee’s High Falls Park serves as the park office, and it’s getting some restoration.  The Alexander-Cannon-Hill House, dates back to the 19th century once was the seat of Oconee and Pickens government – known long ago as the Pickens District of South Carolina. Last week Phil Shirley, Oconee’s PRT director, gave the PRT commission an […]

Westminster moved forward this week with a project to place parts of the city electric lines beneath ground.  A stretch of overhead lines from the substation to Abbey Street near Anderson Avenue are considered “most vulnerable and critical to system resiliency.”  The city is obtaining materials for the project, and this week awarded a bid to a Greer-based contractor.  The […]