Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
Come on down to the Westminster Branch for a PURR-fect party! You can sit, stay, and join us to play for a waggin’ good time as we celebrate our love of cats and dogs. This PAW-ty will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at 4pm. They will have cat and dog themed snacks, stories, sun catcher crafts, games, and toy […]
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For decades, many of us have consistently, and very proudly, displayed South Carolina Wildlife magazine on the living room coffee table. We remember flipping, over and over again, through colorful pages filled with wood ducks, big bucks and largemouth bass. Since 1954, South Carolina Wildlife has been a constant voice for natural resources conservation. Don’t miss out on the 65th […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announces an additional arrest in “Operation Opioid Battle.” The Sheriff’s Office and the Seneca Police Department executed two search warrants at two separate locations, one on Brookwood Drive near Seneca and the other on Daniel Avenue inside the city limits of Seneca. The search warrants were obtained based upon the controlled purchases of narcotics from […]
Read moreImmediately after the showing of a new video promoting Oconee County, Christine Tedesco declared, “I was blown away.” Tedesco likely was not the only one impressed in an audience Friday that viewed a 2:15 minute, professionally produced video whose purpose was to show a “soft side” of Oconee County economic development. Daja Dial of the Oconee Economic Alliance office presented […]
Read moreThis Saturday is Frontier Encampment Day at the Oconee Station State Historic Site near Walhalla. The public is invited for a program, from 10 am to 3 pm., that allows you to travel back in time to the years right after the Revolutionary War when Oconee Station was still a frontier outpost. Re-enactors will be there to interpret what life […]
Read moreThe office of the Grenville County Coroner has confirmed the death on Saturday of a 37-year old man from Seneca. Deputy Coroner Mike Ellis said Cleveland Donell Williams of Seneca’s Lacey Lane was killed during the midnight hour Saturday while attempting to walk across White Horse Road near Staunton Bridge Road. Williams was 37 years old. According to highway trooper […]
Read moreOne week from today an Oconee delegation, led by the county grants writer, will descend on Columbia in search of grant money to help pay for three utility projects across the county. 101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned that making the Columbia August 13 trip besides grants writer Sharon DeRidder will be representatives of engineering companies, officials from Salem and Walhalla, and […]
Read moreOn the lookout for a stolen truck, an Oconee deputy arrested a Salem man on drug charges and possession of a stolen vehicle. The Sheriff’s Office this afternoon announced the charges and the arrest late Saturday night of Bradley Michael Payne of the Burnt Tanyard Road. The deputy made contact with the driver. identified as Payne, in the parking lot […]
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On Saturday, Aug. 4, the Oconee Heritage Center (OHC) will be celebrating trains at Railroad Day. Along with this celebration of trains, the OHC will be celebrating the release of the new children’s book Adventures on the Blue Ridge Rail Road with Engineer Smith and Khloe by local author Frankie Johnson. “Along with a story-time featuring this book, we will […]
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The TTI Power Equipment 14th Annual South Carolina Apple Festival Car Show, a fundraiser for Crimestoppers of Oconee County, Inc., is now a little over a month away, on Saturday, Sept. 8. Crimestoppers announced last month that TTI Power Equipment will be the title sponsor of this year’s car show. The Car Show will be located on East Main Street […]
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