Category: News

Oconee deputies have now been equipped with a drug that can help counter-act someone who has overdosed on opioids.  The deputies trained April 7 how to administer Narcan.  The medication was provided at no cost to the Oconee County taxpayer.  Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says, “The distribution of Narcan to our deputies will not totally reverse the effect of […]

A hiker is safe after she and three companion pet dogs were forced to spend the night in the wild in the vicinity of the South Carolina-North Carolina line.  Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Services says the 43-year old woman and her dogs, except for the elements, were found unharmed around 10:30 this morning in the vicinity of Bad Creek. […]

  A cause for a home fire Sunday night in Townville has been pinpointed.  Shane Gibbs, the Oconee County Fire Marshal, says a stovetop eye had been left in a cooking-related accident.  Two people made it safely away from the fire on Rawleigh Street.  According to Gibbs, the structure consisted of two storage units that had been pulled together and […]

Word reaching 101.7/WGOG NEWS of a serious fire that struck the restaurant at The Reserve home development on Lake Keowee.  Apparently it was a midnight hour fire, to which Oconee County’s Keowee fire Department sent resources, including a ladder fire truck.  We are attempting to learn more information from Pickens County’s Keowee Vineyard Fire Department thru its chief, Phil Black.

Workers arriving this morning at the Oconee Veterans Affairs Office on Kenneth Street, Walhalla were greeted by no electric power service.  There’s an uncofirmed report that lightning hit the main power.  The V-A office’s neighbor, the DSS, may also be without power service.

A Tri-County Tech instructor concedes her quest to unseat a third-term U-S representative from what’s considered an entrenched Republican district is an uphill battle.  But it’s a battle that Democrat Mary Geren is eager to undertake.  A large number of her supporters cheered for her yesterday in a ballroom at Clemson University’s Madren Center.  Geren elicited cheers and some laughter […]

A Walhalla man who set a vehicle afire in a carport that spread to destroy the adjoining home said he never intended to kill those inside the home asleep.  Nevertheless, Joshua Charles Campbell was sent to prison for a 12-year sentence.  Campbell is 29 years old.  He admitted his guilt to arson third degree and to nine counts of attempted […]

One man was taken to the hospital when he made contact with an energized conductor in the Friendship Community near Seneca.  Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative earlier disconnected service at the home because of non-payment of the power bill.  According to Blue Ridge, it appears the individual placed an aluminum ladder against a power pole.  And climbing the ladder, the person […]

A report on the state police agency’s investigation in Westminster is in the hands of the office of the 10th Circuit Solicitor.  David Wagner, solicitor, said today the report arrived Friday and has asked Lindsey Simmons, deputy solicitor in Oconee County, to review and evaluate the report and make a recommendation to him.  Issues over the loan of a wood […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has identified a Toccoa, Georgia man as the driver of a car that allegedly failed to yield the right of way late last week at a highway 183 intersection between Walhalla and Westminster.  Besides reckless driving, 31-year old James Buice Phillips was also charged with driving under suspension, giving false information, and receiving stolen goods.  According […]