Category: News

    Oconee Sheriff’s Office has made strides to lessen the county’s un-ending environmental crime of common littering, but the man in charge says his office and others can do more.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw commented to 101.7/WGOG NEWS about the center stage that littering took last week when a Seneca area woman spoke to county leaders and presented pictures aimed […]

A big ticket item appears on tonight’s agenda for Oconee County school trustees.  In their work session, trustees are to hear about a taxpayer-supported bond issue that would add $14.5 million to the district’s general obligation debt.  The agenda also calls for the trustees to discuss and take possible action to divest itself of some property.  Under consideration is to […]

Brent Venables, defensive coordinator for the Clemson Tigers, has been engaged to keynote an event to raise money for an Oconee County organization that works to lessen dependence on public assistance.  The organization is Ripple of One whose goal is to transform families, one family at a time, by ending their dependence on government assistance.

An unidentified Oconee deputy was involved in one of two incidents of shots fired early Saturday near Westminster, and that part of the investigation has been turned over to the state police.  Two other individuals, also not yet identified by name, were wounded.  9-1-1 was alerted around 2 am to shots fired into a home on the Brock Road. The […]

A University of South Carolina student from Walhalla has been selected for a trip next week to the United Nations in New York City.  Kathryn Stoudemire was chosen for her leadership skills and is one of only five USC students chosen for the trip.  It’s believed they’ll get to meet former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, now U-N ambassador for […]

An Oconee trial ended yesterday with guilty verdicts and a sentence that sends a Westminster man to prison for one year.  The General Sessions jury found Sonny Sloan Peay guilty of resisting arrest and possession of meth first offense.  Judge Sprouse ordered a one-year term for resisting arrest and sentenced the 51-year old Peay to three years suspended to five […]

The Oconee County administrator, Scott Moulder, has confirmed the departure of long-time county engineer Mack Kelley, saying Kelley resigned in early January with the intention to seek work elsewhere.  Moulder says for now, Kelley’s duties are being handled by Rick Martin, the manager of the county Rock Quarry.  Kyle Reid remains number two in charge of the county’s road and […]

New faces for the Oconee Planning Commission, an advisory commission to the county council.  At its meeting, the council last night named Stacy Lyles to serve as the new District Five planning commissioner and Andrew Gramling as the new District Two commissioner.  Re-appointed to a new term was at-large member Mike Johnson.  The council chairwoman, Edda Cammick, asked the meeting […]

At the Oconee County Council table last night there was discussion about the need for better communications for the operations staged in Walhalla by the Joseph Sullivan Nursing Center of Clemson University.  Once a week, the university’s nursing division provides free health services to those who can’t afford them from an office in the former health department in Walhalla.  But […]

Groundbreaking ceremony for the new Pickens County jail will take place at 2 o’clock Friday, February 24 on Catherine Street behind the County Administration buildings in Pickens.  Pickens County signed a contract with Mosley Architect to design and build the new facility.  The new jail will replace the existing jail, built in the 1970s. Property for the project was recently […]