Category: News

Two Upstate restaurants have been ordered to pay a total of nearly $75,000 in back wages to 13 employees, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Labor. The department’s wage and hour division found El Jimador Mexican Restaurants in Clemson and Westminster to have low-wage employees who were working “off the books.” The restaurants were also found to […]

The 37-year-old woman who drowned over the weekend in Pickens County has been identified.  Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley lists the victim as Heather Dobbins of York.  She was with three other people when she drowned Saturday. The incident happened on the Saluda River near Old Easley Highway. Investigators said Dobbins was taken to a Greenville hospital, where she was […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in finding baseball equipment and other items that were reportedly stolen from a team that is competing in the Dixie Boys World Series in Seneca.  Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt gives details.  “Deputies were dispatched to 226 Hitec Road, which is the location of the Quality […]

Sister station WGOG reports that for years, there has been no passenger train service for Seneca. But it was in Seneca Friday that a Nashville, Tennessee man was arrested and charged with trespassing on a Norfolk Southern freight train. The train stopped at Seneca’s E. Main and Perry Avenue and the man, Danh Van Nguyen, got off into the custody […]

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces that four people were killed on state roadways from Friday, August 2, at 6pm until Sunday, August 4, at midnight. As of August 4, 412 people have died on South Carolina highways, compared to 502 highway deaths in this same time period in 2012. Locally, Oconee County has experienced one death in […]

Don’t put away those swim trunks just yet. Those involved with the project to return the Walhalla Municipal Swimming Pool to service remain optimistic that the issues remaining will be resolved in time to allow for an August opening and, possibly, an extended season into September. County Councilman Wayne McCall and City Councilman David Underwood say one of the issues […]

Clemson automotive engineering students are in Traverse City, Michigan this week to show off the next-generation Mazda-sponsored vehicle that they both conceived and engineered. The Automotive Research management Briefing Seminar is the first time the completed Deep Orange 3 vehicle will be showcased with body panels designed by students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. As […]

The apparent drowning of a York woman in Pickens County is under investigation. Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley reports an autopsy will take place on the body of Heather Dobbins. She was tubing in a group of four people Saturday in the Saluda River.

Greenville resident and former Oconeean Ann Holleman said, “It’s so rare the right thing happens.” And when she said it she was referring to a snowball of a public-private effort that, during a seven-month period, raised more than $4 million to save precious Oconee County land from development. Under the shelter of Walhalla-owned Stumphouse Tunnel Park, a variety of public […]

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Walhalla Civic Auditorium is looking for a few actors.  Two people had to resign from their roles in upcoming plays, explains Walhalla Civic Auditorium executive director Bill Chisano.  “We had a cast member drop out for personal reasons and we are looking for a woman between 30-40 years of age to be in “Rex’s […]