Category: News

The City of Clemson is now taking applications from eligible organizations for accommodations tax funding.  Any non-profit organization serving the City of Clemson, or any department of the City, may request funds for tourism related activities. Those include advertising and promotion of tourism; promotion of the arts and cultural events; construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities for civic and cultural […]

A staffer at Clemson University is this year’s South Carolina Volunteer Administrator of the Year.  The South Carolina Association of Volunteer Administration recently honored Jennifer Shurley, associate director of civic engagement. Shurley works in the Gantt Center for Student Life, part of the Division of Student Affairs, coordinating community service opportunities for Clemson students.  Shurley joined the Clemson staff in […]

South Carolina Law Enforcement Accreditation Inc. has accredited the Clemson University Police Department. Through the accreditation process, law enforcement agencies are able to implement a body of professional standards that improve their ability to prevent and control crime, more efficiently deliver services, cooperate and coordinate with other law-enforcement agencies and increase citizen and employee confidence in the objectives and practices […]

U.S. Third District Congressman Jeff Duncan met Monday morning with law enforcement, fire fighters, paramedics and first responders at the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office to pass along his appreciation for their work and talk about potential grant opportunities. The visit to the Sheriff’s Office was part of the Congressman’s “Thanking Our First Responders Tour” that began last Friday and concludes […]

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will be the sponsor of a special event “Meet the OLLI Authors” on June 21 at 10am at the Cheezem Education Center at 100 Thomas Green Blvd (alongside the Patrick Square community) in Clemson. This event is open to the public at no charge. Participating authors will have copies of their books available for […]

For the fourth year in a row, The World of Energy plans to host outdoor movie night on Friday, June 7 beginning at 9pm, featuring the movie “Escape from Planet Earth.” The computer animated family film is rated PG and features astronaut Scorch Supernova who finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien […]

Sister station WGOG reports that Oconee Medical Center achieved a positive bottom line last month.  However, revenues above expenses do not translate to higher income from patients. Oconee Medical Center vice president for operations Hunter Kome said the hospital achieved a positive bottom line primarily by expense management. Kome says the last five months of the hospital’s governing year will […]

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces a preliminary number of 12 people being killed on state roads and highways over the Memorial Day holiday weekend from Friday, May 24, at 6pm until Monday, May 27, at midnight. Preliminary numbers show this year’s Memorial Day weekend was the deadliest in three years. In 2012 and 2011, eight fatalities were […]

Beautiful weather, record crowds and legendary entertainment summarizes another successful Seneca Fest over Memorial Day weekend.  Seneca Events Coordinator Riley Johnson thanks everyone for his or her part in making the city’s seventh annual downtown event so great.  “It was an outstanding three day event.  Jazz was great on Thursday, the Car Cruzin on Friday featured a record number of […]

Researchers at Clemson University are asking for the public’s help in counting fireflies.  Scientists are concerned about a possible decline in the number of fireflies and want to know if population growth and human activity is creating an impact on habitats. Researchers are asking South Carolinians to join the annual “Firefly Count” on Saturday, June 1 from 5pm to 11pm.  […]