Category: News

Walhalla is one of four Upstate municipalities, along with Pickens, Gaffney, and Pacolet, slated to benefit from a $1.2 million federal Brownfield grant awarded to the Greenville-based government service agency A-COG (Appalachian Council of Governments), part of the 23 recipients across the EPA’s Southeast Region, three of which are in South Carolina; this funding, announced today, aims “to assess, clean […]

Senator Richard Cash, Chairman of the Anderson County Legislative Delegation, has scheduled a Delegation Meeting for Tuesday, June 24, at 4:00 p.m., at the Ronald Townsend Government Building in Anderson, SC. The agenda includes discussions on the relocation of two polling places and presentations of budgets from various Anderson County educational and fire protection entities. The delegation will also consider […]

Oconee County’s second annual mental health summit, hosted by the Probate Court, gathered health, law enforcement, and judicial officials to enhance mental health services. Probate Judge Danny Singleton stressed timely care for those with mental illness. Judge Singleton spoke with WGOG’s Dick Mangrum… The Oconee County Detention Center shared its progress in inmate mental health, including a partnership with Oconee […]

Anderson County Sheriff’s Deputies responding to a burglar alarm at the Spiritual Church of God on George Albert Lake in April discovered Debra Bowman inside the building. The incident escalated when deputies located 10 grams of methamphetamine on the 38-year-old. Bowman was subsequently arrested and charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine and transported to the Detention Center, where she has since been […]

Wesley Vernard Porter, a 70-year-old Anderson resident, died Friday morning after being hit by a 2015 Chevy Tahoe while standing in the roadway on East River Street. Anderson County Coroner Greg Shore reported that his office is investigating the incident, which occurred around 5:36 AM and resulted in Mr. Porter sustaining multiple traumatic injuries; his death has been ruled accidental. […]

Pioneer Rural Water District has issued a boil water advisory for residents on Farmhouse Lane to Cleveland Creek Road on Highway 59, and all of Feltman Road, Bass Drive, Edgewood Drive, and Summers Lane in Fair Play, Oconee County. This advisory is due to a water main break, and as a precaution, all affected individuals should vigorously boil their water […]

(Walhalla, SC) ————————————-The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating an Oconee man who has been charged with receiving a stolen firearm. 19-year-old Gage Eligah Jack Stewart, who has listed addresses of Scrub Street in Westminster and E. Main Street in Salem, has been charged by the Sheriff’s Office with one count of Receiving Stolen […]

A police pursuit initiated by the Central Police Department on Thursday morning, May 15, ended on Highway 76 in Clemson when a 2005 Honda Accord, pursued while traveling west on Highway 93, attempted to exit onto Highway 76, subsequently leaving the roadway, descending an embankment, and overturning, resulting in the death of the driver, Jeremy Basquette, 32, of Pickens, SC, […]

Affected Areas: Coffee Road, Long Creek Highway (north of Coffee Road), Welcome Church Road, Unity Church Road, Burton Memorial Drive, and Surrounding Areas Date: May 15, 2025 The City of Westminster Public Works Department advises all water customers in the following areas—Coffee Road, Long Creek Highway (north of Coffee Road), Welcome Church Road, Unity Church Road, Burton Memorial Drive, and […]

The South Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the state’s 2023 Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act, maintaining the approximate six-week abortion ban. The ruling clarified “fetal heartbeat” as a “biologically identifiable moment” of cardiac activity. Exceptions exist for rape, incest (up to 12 weeks), medical emergencies, and fatal fetal anomalies. While Attorney General Alan Wilson and Governor Henry McMaster […]