Category: News

This looks like bonanza day for Oconee County government. The coffers of the county treasury apparently are being enriched today by the 2018 property tax payment of Oconee’s largest taxpayer, Duke Energy. That payment is approximately $30 million. By satisfying their annual obligation today, Duke avoids a three percent late penalty that would apply after today.

Oconee Sheriff’s Office patrol cars are now equipped with a new technology to alert the motoring public that they are in an area of imminent danger as the result of a high-speed chase. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw made the announcement today, in the company of representatives who are making the app possible. PursuitAlert is a free app that Oconeeans can download […]

Parts of SC 93 on the Clemson campus for motorists remain a dicey stretch of roadway. The city has announced construction continues to move forward on 93 with workers installing underground utilities and pipes to serve the main campus. Existing barricades are being extended on 93 to Centennial Boulevard. Today workers place barricades at the Williamson Road/highway 93 intersection, which […]

Food trucks, a new mode of feeding Walhalla’s hungry, are coming under the scrutiny of city government. The Walhalla Planning Commission will meet at the end of the month to talk about food truck regulations. The meeting will be 6 o’clock Monday night, January 28 at City Hall.

Emotions poured out during last night’s meeting of the Oconee School Board, as parents and others addressed to the trustees about the problem of student suicides and thoughts of suicide. They left the meeting room having made a plea for the public schools to do more, to prevent what happened to their children happening to others. School leaders responded by […]

An Oconee emergency services official quotes the family of a man pulled from a bedroom in a home yesterday as saying he has shown great improvement. The man, not identified by name, was moved into the intensive care unit at the Oconee hospital and was to remain last night under observation. Charlie King, county fire chief, said yesterday morning’s fire […]

  A Walhalla city worker, on his way home from work, was killed in a late afternoon car accident near Seneca. Alex Braden Richardson was 25 years old. The accident involved two vehicles shortly after 4 o’clock on the Lawrence Bridge Road, not far from Richardson’s Bayshore Drive home. Coroner Karl Addis said it was a near head-on collision, and […]

Voters in Salem are asked to vote tomorrow to fill a vacancy on their four-seat town council. In the special election, the candidates are Jimmy Barker and Tony Grogan.

An arm of the federal government has no objection to Duke Energy relinquishing 18 acres of Lake Jocassee property to allow the South Carolina DNR to use the property for recreation purposes. “FERC”—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—has given its blessing to allow Duke to convey the property to the DNR. The property is known as the Bootleg Access Area and […]

An Anderson man handcuffed at the scene of his arrest in Oconee County allegedly kicked an arresting officer twice, and that resulted in an additional charge. The Oconee Sheriff’s Office today announced drug charges and the charge of assault on officer while resisting arrest against Dallas Cole Thompson. Twenty-eight year old Thompson was arrested Friday on the grounds of the […]