Area High School Football Games for Friday, October 22, 2021
Pendleton at Seneca Crescent at West Oak Daniel at BHP Walhalla at Westside (Tailgate show starts at 6 pm on 101.7WGOG, online at www.wgog.com, and on the WGOG Radio app).
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Pendleton at Seneca Crescent at West Oak Daniel at BHP Walhalla at Westside (Tailgate show starts at 6 pm on 101.7WGOG, online at www.wgog.com, and on the WGOG Radio app).
Read moreTwenty cyclists will make their way across South Carolina, setting out Monday from the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative in Pickens, in a seven-day, 648-mile ride to build awareness for heart disease and offer screenings to more than 2,000 electric cooperative employees. They plan to finish their ride Tuesday, November 2 in the Low Country. The “Ride Across South Carolina” was […]
Read moreSchool resource officers are teaching drug abuse education to fifth grade Oconee County students. The officers were certified after taking training last summer by the Richland Sheriff’s Office in Columbia. The program “DARE” teaches students good decision-making skills to help them lead safe and healthy lives and cope with drug abuse and a barrage of other high-risk circumstances they face […]
Read morePickens County Sheriff’s Office placed a 71-year old woman in custody yesterday and charged her with murder in the shooting death of a man whose body was found in a camper near Easley. Virginia Louise Cook also faces a second charge of possession of weapon during a violent crime in the death of Augustin Demsa. Demsa’s body was found October […]
Read moreTri-County Technical College at Pendleton will host a one-hour career fair tomorrow for those interested in a career in law enforcement. The event will run from 11 am to noon in the Anderson Hall on the college main campus. Representatives from 10 local and state law enforcement agencies will be there, and TEC officials will discuss the college’s criminal justice […]
Read moreRecorded at the end of the day Tuesday: 560 new COVID-19 cases in South Carolina (six in Oconee County). Statewide: 33 new deaths. Of 16,729 test results received, the positivity: 5.3%.
Read moreAn accident that created traffic problems on SC 188/the Keowee School Road was a head-on crash shortly before the 8 o’clock hour this morning. State trooper Mitchell Ridgeway says the pickup and SUV drivers suffered possible injuries, and one of the drivers was ticketed for crossing left of center. The accident was reported at Keowee School Road and Emerald Pointe […]
Read moreMan-made Lake Keowee left a rural Oconee County road split in half, and two men who are among the hundred who frequent one of the remaining stretches of the Knox Road want it to be a re-paving priority of the state DOT. Those two men showed up today at a meeting of the Oconee State “C” Committee which disburses a […]
Read moreFree testing is available to South Carolina schools and child care centers to detect the presence of lead in water. Exposure to lead in water can cause certain health effects, especially in children. According to DHEC, while the state regulates water systems to ensure quality standards are met, lead rarely is present in drinking water when it leaves a treatment […]
Read moreWho knows, if you believe enough, you might see a primate wandering around on Saturday in Westminster. It’s soon time for the city’s second Big Foot Festival, and both organizer Dale Glymph and Mayor Brian Ramey have a hunch that the city could see big crowds during the day Saturday, because another festival in Marion, North Carolina has been called […]
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