Category: News

A “Call to Action” event takes place Thursday night at the Walhalla Middle School, and Sheriff Mike Crenshaw invites everyone concerned by domestic violence to attend this free program.  Crenshaw is often asked by members of the public what they can do to help curb the crime of violence in the home place.  7 o’clock Thursday night is an ideal […]

A Tamassee man was arrested twice over the weekend–once on Saturday and once on Sunday.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Chad Edwards Whitmire faces charges trespassing and grand larceny.  In an arrest warrant, 35-year old Whitmire is accused Sunday of taking a 2014 Dodge Durango from the parking lot of Itron at West Union.  The previous day, according to […]

Drug charges arose from an early morning traffic stop in the Earles Grove area of southern Oconee.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw said a “huge” amount of methamphetamine was seized, and one person is in jail.  A further announcement is coming from the Sheriff’s Office.

A 74-year old Seneca woman died in a two-vehicle accident this morning on U-S 123/the Sandifer Boulevard at the entrance to the Schneider Electric plant.  Coroner Karl Addis said the fatality was Frances “Frankie” Pruett.  She was 74 years old.  Addis said Pruett had dropped off her son at the plant and, in a 2009 Pontiac, was attempting to cross the […]

An apparent tornado or, at the least, a violent wind blew in parts of Pickens County late last night.  Damage resulted in the area of the Town of Norris.  At one point, hundreds of Blue Ridge Electric customers were left without power.  In all, some one thousand members of the cooperative’s multi-county service area incurred outages brought on by the […]

Results are announced today for a test that measures the employability skills of Oconee County students.  The WorkKeys test gauges the career readiness for all 11th grade students who are required to take the test statewide.  According to the Oconee School District, 88.5% of its 11th graders last spring received the WorkKeys’ National Career Readiness Certificate.  The assessment includes three timed tests […]

Car accidents on a rainy Oconee County Monday morning–one near Seneca and the other near Walhalla.  101.7/WGOG NEWS has learned there was a fatality in one of the accidents around 7 this morning on 123/the Sandifer Boulevard in the vicinity to the entrance to the Schneider Electric Plant.  A second accident occurred near Walhalla on N. Laurel Street near Frank […]

Playground improvements and the Schroder Street water line are on the agenda for West Union Town Council at 6 o’clock tomorrow night at Town Hall.  Tuesday night is a meeting night also for governing bodies in Salem and Westminster.

The board at Clemson University likes the job that James Clements is doing.  On Friday, the board raised the president’s salary by $100 thousand a year and approved $50 thousand in deferred compensation.  Clements’ salary now exceeds $900 thousand a year.  Most of it is paid by the Clemson University Foundation.

Edda Cammick, chairwoman of Oconee County Council, says a one-hour Friday evening meeting with school district officials was cordial and pertained to the county’s interest in changing the distribution formula for funds derived from the county’s participation in multi-county industrial parks.  Currently, two-thirds of those funds go to the public schools and one-third to the county.  But Cammick tells 101.7/WGOG […]