Category: News

As part of its commitment to bolster South Carolina’s manufacturing base, Duke Energy will fund workforce development initiatives in the state to help provide a next-generation workforce in key cluster areas. These initiatives will advance economic development and enhance employment opportunities for South Carolinians, thereby providing industry with a highly qualified pool of employees. The move will spur job growth by […]

Sister station WGOG reports that yesterday’s turbulent weather dropped nearly two and one-quarter inches of rain at Walhalla’s Official U.S. Weather Station. According to Weather Observer Barbara Wilson, if you add yesterday’s 2.23″ to what has fallen previously in January the totals for the first month of 2013 exceed 10″.  Public Safety outlets report no major problems yesterday in Oconee […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has written to President Obama requesting the President personally intervene in the case of Pastor and American citizen Saeed Abedini, who was unfairly sentenced to eight years in an Iranian prison. “I am deeply dismayed and disturbed by the news from Iran that Pastor and American citizen Mr. Saeed Abedini has been sentenced by […]

Franklin County, Georgia authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing woman. Late Wednesday night, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office issued a lookout for 33-year-old Bonny Anne Cooner.  She has been missing since Monday. She is described as a white female, about 5’5” tall, 160lbs, with blue eyes and shoulder length brown hair. Cooner also has a […]

Sister station WGOG reports that an Oconee County jury has found Austin Ryan Epperson guilty of petty larceny and burglary in the first degree.  And for the crimes that occurred in 2010 at a small farm home in Tamassee, the 20-year-old Epperson will be required to serve 15 years in prison followed by five years probation, in line with the […]

At a crowded meeting yesterday at the World of Energy, Duke Energy pledged to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it would diligently pursue the completion of projects to enhance the safety of the Oconee Nuclear Station.  Eric Leeds, director of the NRC’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, commended Duke Energy for making progress, but said his agency would like those […]

The 2012 Oconee Medical Center Foundation Golf Classic was a big success, raising more than $68,000.  Recently the Foundation presented these earnings to three deserving hospital programs.  A check for $25,000 was presented to the Oconee Medical Center Auxiliary for the purchase of Lifeline emergency equipment for the indigent and disabled and checks for $21,860 each were presented to Safe Kids Upstate Oconee County and Mountain Lakes […]

The Foothills Area Family YMCA continues a 25+-year tradition of youth soccer. Registration is open now through February 24 and is on a first come first served basis as space is limited. Spring soccer includes ages 3-12 and is an 8-week program beginning March 12, concluding the first week of May.  All practices and games are held at the University/Y […]

Tri-County Technical College accounting instructor Brenda Mattison can add textbook author to her list of accomplishments.  Mattison is the co-author of Horngren’s Accounting, 10th edition, a two-semester accounting textbook published by Pearson Education.  Her co-authors are accounting professors Tracie Nobles at Texas State University San Marcos and Ella Mae Matsumura at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mattison also wrote and revised […]

Sister Station WGOG reports that Seneca will move forward with a $15 million revenue bond designed to ensure the city’s utilities system has what it needs to function 30 or more years into the future. At a special meeting Tuesday night, the Seneca City Council gave City Administrator Greg Dietterick a green light to proceed with plans to replace old […]