Category: News

Vice President Mike Pence will come to South Carolina Saturday, March 30 to campaign for Senator Lindsey Graham. Graham, the state’s senior U-S senator from Oconee County, faces election next year. And next week he’ll benefit from events in Greenville and Myrtle Beach featuring the vice president. General admission tickets for each event will be available for $20 and can […]

Two fires occurred Sunday afternoon in separate sections of Oconee County. Fire fighters remained on the scene early into last night at a mobile home fire on Huff Street in Westminster.  No one reported injured.  Near Seneca, fire fighters responded to a storage building fire on Wisteria Lane.

The Walhalla police jailed a Westminster driver after Saturday’s fatal accident that killed a Walhalla woman. Chief Sean Brinson announced multiple charges, including felony driving under the influence with death, against Robert Allen Pelfrey, driver of an HHR SUV. A 76-year old Walhalla woman, Lois Faye Winkler, riding in a second vehicle, was killed in the 2:30 Saturday afternoon accident […]

Exploratory efforts are underway to open a second incubator for start-up businesses in Oconee County. One such business development center exists in Walhalla but, of late, the thinking is there’s a need for a second. And that one should be on the eastern side of Oconee, approaching Clemson University, to take advantage of the opportunities that a major university can […]

Oconee County, so far, has been unable to close the deal to attract a textile company from the United Kingdom country of Scotland, but the county still has the company on its radar. The board of Oconee Economic Alliance was told today that the Scottish textile company has visited Oconee three times and has placed the county on its short-list […]

The still new, expanded Oconee jail in Walhalla is home to a total of 182 inmates. Eight of those individuals sit in the jail, charged with murder and await court disposition of their cases.

A maker of engine cooling systems for trucks has chosen Oconee County for its fourth location. The announcement was made this morning at a meeting of the board of the county Economic Alliance. Janet Hartman, the interim director of the alliance, said a second reading of an ordinance facilitating the Midwest company’s expansion into Oconee County is before county council […]

Two people are in the custody of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office after a stabbing victim was discovered Wednesday night at the front of the Seneca Lowe’s Store at the BiLo Plaza. The Sheriff’s Office identified the arrested as Timothy Dale Glauner, 50, and Terry L. Quinn, 52. Quinn is charged with attempted murder; Glauner is charged with attempted murder, public […]

United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon has announced that a 37-year old Seneca woman, Tabitha A. Hammond, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins of Spartanburg ordered a sentence of Hammond amounting to 18 years in federal prison. The U-S Attorney’s Office gave this […]

A prosecutor is non-committal on whether the circuit solicitor’s office will seek the death penalty against two Oconee County men who are being held on charges that they murdered an elderly woman last week at a Seneca home. When asked yesterday if the prosecution will pursue a death penalty, deputy solicitor Lindsey Simmons said, “The investigation is ongoing, so I […]