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Special DHEC announcement this afternoon: COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina has received federal approval to update visitation guidelines for nursing homes and community residential care facilities, announced the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Governor Henry McMaster. These updated guidelines require facilities to use DHEC’s percent positive by county data to help determine their visitation status. […]

All sorts of resources are being applied to a sizeable Oconee County wild fire this afternoon in the Mountain Rest area.  The fire is reported on one side of SC 28 north of the 107 juncture in the vicinity of Callas Gap.  U-S Forest Service personnel are assisting volunteer Oconee County fire fighters, and we’ve learned air support has been […]

Lovers of additional daylight during the evening hours will welcome the time change this weekend, when this part of the country will “spring forward”.  On Sunday, we’ll all need to move our clocks and timepieces ahead one hour, which means that between Saturday and Sunday, 60 minutes of sleep will be lost.  According to Prisma Health, preparation is key to […]

After hearing about rats that have caused major problems to the machinery of Seneca’s Department of Public Works, Mayor Pro-tem Ronnie O’Kelley has an idea to better protect the city’s dwindling fleet of garbage trucks.  After hearing the account given by Scott Moulder last night, O’Kelley suggested the city store its sanitation vehicles at the city-county industrial park property on […]

New confirmed cases of COVID-19 in this afternoon’s DHEC report:  an additional 507 in South Carolina, eight of which are in Oconee County.  Statewide, 17 people have been added to the virus death toll, including a middle-aged Oconeean who died last Saturday.  Of 17,134 test results, the South Carolina positivity was 4.7%.

Bailey Moore, Grade 2, Ravenel Elementary School, selected as the Overall Grand Prize winner in the 36th Annual Tornado Safety Poster Contest conducted by Oconee County Emergency Services. The contest is designed for elementary students in grades one through five. The purpose of the contest is to educate children on the dangers of tornadoes and protective actions that should be […]

The mayor and council in Seneca last night heard an appeal for five electric power linemen recently let go from the employ of Light and Water.  Retired Light and Water worker Gary Cobb said he has heard their side of what happened and believes that a full investigation is warranted.  Cobb further suggested a third party get involved.  The mayor […]

Oconee fire fighters are telling 101.7/WGOG NEWS two fires between  Long Creek and Mountain Rest areas yesterday had no connection.  One was a 1-thousand acre prescribed burn in the vicinity of Cassidy Bridge Road; the other, a home fire along that road.  According to a report from Walhalla Fire Department, heavy fire damage occurred to the roof and attic.  Three […]

The year 2020, especially for Seneca, is one city government and its inhabitants will likely want to forget.  After all a tornado ravaged parts of the city to the tune of millions of dollars and a mysterious fire nearly wiped out the fleet of garbage trucks.  And then, unless you’ve been on planet Mars, you know all about the world […]

  Customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will have a choice this year as to who will occupy the District Two Pickens County seat on their board of directors.  Two men were nominated during a customers’ meeting yesterday at Pickens:  Jason Dennis and the incumbent, Franklin Looper.  Blue Ridge spokesman says Looper received 94 votes; Dennis, 59 votes, which […]