Category: News

The following Oconee County roads have been closed due to the stormy weather: Camp Rd, Walhalla at Poor Farm Lake Wander Rd, Salem after address 190 from Stamp Creek Rd Avondale Dr, Seneca before Pinehill Ln Megee Rd, Salem between address 219 and 195 Lay Mill Rd, Walhalla appr. 1,000’ from N Hwy 11 Weldon Rd, Westminster between address 440 […]

Today’s driving rain has created multiple problems for Oconee County public safety responders.  The National Weather Service has extended the flash flood warning until 5:30 this evening.  Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Services says crews have their hands full with sections of flooded roads, fallen trees, fallen power lines, and the like.  In one of the scariest-looking situations, a tree […]

The Oconee coroner has ruled death by natural causes of a truck driver this morning on I-85. The victim was a 55-year old resident of Poplar Bluff, Missouri. Addis gave this account: “There was a minor motor vehicle collision involving a tractor trailer reported at approximately 2:40 am today; it appeared the driver of this vehicle realized a medical event […]

Policeman J-Kennemore is being credited with finding an explosive-looking device in the back passenger seat of a car that was stopped during the night in Westminster. As a result the driver of the car—Walhalla area resident Bowdy Crowe Key—was ticketed with traffic offenses, and Chief Rory Jones says additional charges are possible based on the eventual analysis of the suspect […]

The National Weather Service has placed Oconee County a flash flood warning until 3:30 this afternoon. Authorities are appealing to the driving public to slow down and exercise special caution, as many of roadways are fast becoming slick and hazardous. Walhalla has been forced to detour the S. College and S. Broad intersection, and the plan is to close parts […]

The police say a car they stopped last night in Westminster contained a suspected pipe bomb. That suspected pipe bomb, according to Police Chief Rory Jones, was removed by the Anderson Bomb Squad and taken for analysis. The traffic stop took place during the midnight hour at Doyle and Simpson streets. According to Jones, two or three people were riding […]

For years, she was a familiar sight.  If you happened to look up from Seneca’s Miracle Circle intersection toward the manufacturing building that sits above the hill, you couldn’t help notice the neon figure of a woman wearing a bathing cap and a one-piece swim suit.  She was a sign of the times of the Jantzen sportswear plant that located […]

The Clemson Extension Service credits a program that was created in the 1960s with having a continuous rate of success in promoting good health among the country’s most vulnerable—low-resource families with children. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program teaches participants how to budget their food dollars to increase food security and diet quality. In South Carolina, the program puts […]

The Oconee coroner reports a natural death this morning on I-85. Coroner Karl Addis says a 55-year old truck driver from Missouri was found slumped over in the driver’s seat shortly before the 3 o’clock hour this morning at the one mile marker northbound. Addis says witnesses are quoted as having seen the truck slow down and come to a […]

An Oconee narcotics unit drug investigation led to an arrest today in the Townville area of Oconee County. The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of James Gus Orr Jr. after a search warrant was executed at Orr’s home on Douglas Drive. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the following charges were placed against Orr: distribution of methamphetamine, possession with intent to […]