Bobcat Booster Club Golf Tournament

The Bobcat Booster Club is gearing up for the eighth annual Golf Outing, sponsored by Core Financial Resources on May 4. The goal is to fill the event with 24 teams. If you are interested in playing, sponsoring a team, sponsoring a hole, or if you would like to make a donation that could be used for a door prize […]

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SHS Spring Choral Concert

The Seneca High School Choral Department presents their annual Spring Concert on Sunday, May 3 at 3pm. The venue for the concert is Seneca Baptist Church on Highway 59. The program will feature the Women’s Chorus, Men’s Chorus, Honors Women’s Chorus, Honors Chorale and the Madrigal Vocal Jazz Singers. Highlights of the concert include the Women’s Chorus performing the country […]

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Oconee’s jobless rate falls below 6%

Oconee County unemployment last month dropped to 5.8%—from February’s rate of 6.4%. According to the state’s counters, there was an addition of 365 people to the county’s employed labor force. The work picture statewide showed a slight increase in the jobless rate—from 6.6% percent to 6/7%. But the Department of Employment and Workforce reports the number of South Carolinians working […]

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Chamber wants city to pay the bands

At tonight’s meeting of Walhalla City Council, Councilman Tjay Bagwell has signaled that he will make a motion for the city to pay the costs for the bands in this year’s Mayfest, sponsored by the chamber of commerce. The bill for the music is calculated at $2,650. The minutes from council’s April work session, however, show that Councilman David Underwood […]

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Warnings issued for Upstate and Mountains

The National Weather Service is forecasting a risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and evening across the Upstate of South Carolina and mountains of Georgia. The severe thunderstorm warning for Oconee, Habersham and Stephens counties last until 2:45pm. The National Weather Service says a line of thunderstorms is moving through the area from Western North Carolina into Upstate South Carolina. […]

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Mac Arnold honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

A special award was presented Friday night during the fourth annual Greater Clemson Blues Festival. A Lifetime Achievement Award went to a legendary blues man, explains event organizer Vince Jackson. “We honored blues man Mac Arnold with our festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is from this area, he grew up in Greenville. As a young man he moved to Chicago […]

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Bolts of Brightness Nominations underway

Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative celebrates its 75th anniversary on Aug. 14, 2015. As part of the celebration, it wants to recognize 75 members in the local communities that embody the spirit of the cooperative program, which are people that have been Bolts of Brightness to a cause they support. Each selected person will receive an award, and $500 will be […]

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Blue Ridge Electric Coop putting Checks in the Mail

On April 14, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative put checks into the mail totaling $1,000,000 to those who received power from the utility in 1986 or 1987 or both. These capital-credit payments represent a portion of the margins earned in each of those years. Every individual check amount constitutes a member’s pro-rata share of the net earnings during the years covered […]

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