Category: News

Everyone is invited to a drop-in next month to celebrate 50 years for the Hamilton Career Center in the Bountyland Community. The career center was built in 1968 and opened as the Oconee Vocational Center. In a half century, students on their way to the local workforce have studied and trained there to prepare for the local workforce. The Hamilton […]

Library board chairmans and library system directors have come and gone in Oconee County without achieving a library to replace Seneca’s more than 50-year old building. Maybe that’ll change under a new echelon of the library leaders. The Oconee library board and its new members got to know each other last night in Seneca, and it was a chance for […]

Eight people are considered to be the finalists to succeed Jimmy Watt as Public Information Officer of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Crenshaw said today his office is ready to interview the finalists, “We’ll see where those (interviews) will take us.” Watt left early this month to return to his earlier career as a broadcaster. He’s the new Sports and […]

The app Pursuit Alert that is now available to be added to cell phones to alert Oconeeans of high speed chases in progress is proving popular in its early stages. The first numbers that Sheriff Mike Crenshaw saw indicated that in the first ten hour, there were more than one thousand downloads. What’s considered to be a break-thru technology designed […]

According to Franklin County, Georgia Sheriff Steve Thomas, a chase that began in Anderson County, South Carolina on Saturday evening ended when a Franklin County deputy used a PIT maneuver on the suspect. Thomas said the vehicle, a Nissan Frontier, displayed a tag which belonged to a SUV. “At 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 26, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office received […]

The state regards Lake Keowee as a body of excellent water. And it is from that body of water that Walhalla will draw its future supply. Vehicle after vehicle made the turn off Melton Road today for the groundbreaking for a four million gallon a day treatment plant. Harper Corporation’s Bryan Royal says his company is looking to the fall […]

At their meeting tonight, Walhalla planning commissioners will review regulations that cover food trucks and consider a temporary zoning permit for the Oconee Station food truck that operates on Main Street downtown. The planning commission meets at 6 o’clock a City Hall.

When ground is broken near Lake Keowee today, Walhalla will have achieved a milestone. It’ll be the start for the long talked about project for the city to secure a new water supply. The groundbreaking ceremony will be at noon today at 1105 Melton Road, West Union.

A 68-year old Oconee County woman was killed early yesterday afternoon in a pedestrian-car accident in a parking lot near Seneca. Coroner Karl Addis said the fatality, Pamila Crispo, died when she was knocked to the pavement after being struck by a slow moving car in the parking lot of the Home Depot. State trooper Gary Miller said the car […]

A spokesman for Duke Energy says that, in 2018, the utility offered voluntary severance to certain nuclear workers as well as to workers in some other areas of the company. Ryan Mosier, Duke spokesman, says, “While most of the reductions were achieved through voluntary severances, there were some involuntary severances.” A speaker during last night’s Oconee Delegation meeting claimed that […]