Category: News

We are nearing one of the 11 federal holidays.  Memorial Day is Monday, a time to honor and remember military servicemen and women whose lives were lost serving the country.  And a number of event announcements have arrived at 101.7/WGOG.  At 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, the Clemson Corps will host a service at the university Scroll of Honor across Williamson […]

Joshua Harrison will leave the principal’s job at Fair-Oak Elementary to move to Ravenel Elementary in the same capacity.  Oconee School District announces the move of Harrison, as the result of last night’s meeting of the county trustees.  In another move of transition, Sarah Melton will leave her position as special education coordinator at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary School to […]

A regulatory board in Seneca welcomed the ambitious plans of an Atlanta developer to convert a dilapidated former textile property into a multi-housing complex inside an economic opportunity zone adjoining the Utica Community.  This was accomplished on two votes last night by the city planning commission:  one to annex what used to be a J-P Stevens plant and the second […]

One hour later yesterday a section of east bound 123 traffic on the Seneca-Clemson Corridor remained in single file in the vicinity of a serious car accident near the Wells Highway.  A small white car was relegated to the grass median with heavy damage front and back.  An ambulance was seen at the accident location around 5:30 pm.

The bodies of two Pickens County teenagers have been recovered from Lake Hartwell near Central.  The coroner’s office says the deaths of Zakaria Chaar, 15, of Central and Ryan Alnasser, 16, of Clemson are under investigation as drownings.  The death scene was Pike Road and Six Mile Highway, Central.

The opening of a new Seneca restaurant — and its offer of free coffee for the first 100 customers — has brought out the crowds this morning.  Parking is at a premium this morning in and around the new Dunkin Donuts on the 123 Bypass.

If you are going to the Oconee County School Board meeting tonight, keep in mind the meeting location.  The first agenda that went out incorrectly gave Seneca Middle School as the location; however, the meeting at 6 tonight will be at the regular spot, district headquarters in Walhalla.

Projected Oconee County spending on public education is moving higher.  Jay Schickling, the district’s finance officer in a letter Friday to the superintendent, says in his further analysis, he has revised some of the district’s vacant positions to reflect a middle-of-the-pay scale for the potential hires, in place of entry-level salary.  It means, Schickling wrote, that the new district budget […]

It’s time for Oconee’s five school trustees to re-evaluate the district superintendent.  The evaluation, along with contract considerations, of Dr. Michael Thorsland takes place tonight during the executive session of the school board’s regular May meeting.

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 […]