Category: News

It looks like Gena Acree is going to return to the office of Oconee Treasurer – this time as its top official.  The balloting gave Acree a 687-vote margin, or 53.41%, in her tussle with Chief Deputy Tonya Keller, who had the endorsement of retiring Treasurer Greg Nowell.  Keller’s numbers added up to 46.59% of the some 10 thousand votes […]

A political newcomer, Adam Duncan, achieved a major upset in Oconee when his totals showed that he won the Republican nomination, ousting Bill Sandifer, a senior member of the state legislature.  The results gave Duncan a 61-vote margin, or a little more than 50.5% of the votes cast inside State House District Two that encompasses the Seneca area and runs […]

“To God be the glory, it’s a conservative sweep!”  That’s how Matthew Durham views the results of the balloting that saw the District Two incumbent win re-nomination for a new, four-year term.  In a statement Republican Durham said, “…the people of this county overwhelmingly spoke and proved that Oconee is a conservative county.”  He makes reference to last night’s unofficial […]

They remain unofficial until the county board of canvassers certifies them later this week: For the GOP nomination for Congress:  Sheri Biggs topped the field. For the Democratic nomination for Congress: Frances Guldner prevailed. (an 11-county district vote must be added to their totals) For Solicitor:  Beth Blundy won the Oconee vote. (Anderson County results must be factored in to […]

A penalty of $9,250 has been placed by the state against Itron Manufacturing of West Union, according to a document published by South Carolina DHEC.  According to one of the administrative orders to be considered by the DHEC board this week, an inspection on December 6 revealed an alleged violation of the South Carolina Hazardous Management Act – one of […]

Seneca’s chief of police Casey Bowling confirms his department has reports of a black bear seen in recent days in the Adams subdivision south of the railroad, and residents there are on watch.  One homeowner tells us the bear yesterday visited backyard bird feeder on Ploma Drive.  Several are said to have seen it on Pine Street near 4th Street.

To hear that the Oconee intersection that some used the word miracle to pass through is still a place for modern-day car accidents, 101.7/WGOG NEWS turned to a retired schoolteacher for a remembrance of what Seneca’s Miracle Circle used to be like as way back in the mid-20th century.  That’s when, Ernest Riley, says the crossroads that led to Walhalla […]

The police chief says this morning’s (around 9:15) accident at Seneca’s Miracle Circle intersection has turned out to be minor in nature.  Chief Bowling tells 101.7/WGOG NEWS:  “It has already cleared up.  One transported for minor injuries.”

From its Main Street, Walhalla office, Visit Oconee has determined that the shows put on by the Center for the Performing Arts are the keys to bringing visitors downtown.  These visitors, Ken Sloan says, keep local cash registers ringing and keep the tables in downtown restaurants full of diners who want a meal before they see one of the shows […]

A Six Mile man was the car driver who lost his life in a Sunday night accident which the state patrol called a head-on crash on SC 137.  Andrew Wilson, Pickens County’s chief deputy coroner, identified the fatality as 23-year-old Christopher James Grant.  According to Wilson, a passenger in Grant’s car and the driver of the second vehicle were treated […]