Category: Sports

If you haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19, getting vaccinated is as easy as showing up Monday evening at the Walhalla Recreation Department gymnasium, at the end of N. College Street.  From 1 to 7 pm, DHEC will administer the vaccine to anyone aged 18 and older.  To receive a shot, you must make an appointment by going to scdhec.gov/vaxlocator or […]

Coming out of a special meeting today, the Oconee superintendent of education predicts, the county school board likely will have approved the choice of a new wrestling coach at West-Oak High School.

Jim Charbonneau is the new owner of the former Stoudemire law building on the 123 Seneca ByPass, and he will move his Golden Corner Wealth Advisers business there.  But that’s not all.  Charbonneau has a contractor to make changes to the building, including the installation of an elevator.  On the second floor, he plans to create office space for other […]

New cases:  408, including 12 in Oconee. Statewide, 19 additional deaths, including one in Pickens County. Of 10,992 test results, positivity:  4.7%.

Police cars rushed to and thru Seneca today, and the city police chief says the incident produced an arrest.  Chief Bowling says the police arrested one person at Sosebee Road and B-Minor Street.  No other additional details were made available to 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

The Design Committee for Main Street Walhalla holds its first meeting tomorrow, and the Main Street director says if you have an interest in guiding the “look and feel” of the downtown you are cordially invited to attend.  The meeting will be from 4 to 5:30 pm tomorrow.  The committee is designed also to help promote and preserve an historical […]

Westminster- Gerald Wade Smith, 72, passed away Saturday, January 23rd, 2021, at Prisma Oconee Medical Center.   Born in Stephens County, Georgia, to the late Herbert Sullivan and Lucy Meeks Smith, Gerald was a graduate of Clemson University and Law School at the University of South Caorlina. Gerald was an attorney with the Public Defender’s office, and was a Captain […]

Today’s report:  2,644 new, confirmed cases of COVID statewide, along with 14 more deaths.  Of the new cases:  30 from Oconee.  Of 10,198 test results received statewide, the positivity was 25.9%.

Oconee County Council’s newest member, Matthew Durham, jump-started the council’s first meeting of 2021 with a declaration that, in his four-year term, he is going to try to safeguard individual rights that pertain to guns, property rights, and freedom of speech. The District Two member also vowed that the county should accept no financial help from the federal government if […]

The police in Westminster say they are looking for a man wanted in the investigation of gunfire at a home on 123/the Toccoa Highway nearly three months ago.  Law enforcement authorities identify the suspect as Alejandro Cruz Jr.  Cruz is accused on September 20 of firing a gun into a home and vehicles in the driveway while the victims were […]