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Police filed additional charges Wednesday against a Salem man following his arrest Tuesday night in connection with a shooting on Clearcut Drive. Thirty-one year-old Justin David Crenshaw was arrested in a traffic stop and cited for failure to stop for a blue light. A warrant was out for Crenshaw for attempted murder, first degree burglary, and possession of a weapon […]

by Chad Dorsett See the Geechee-Gullah Ring Shouters this Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016 in Seneca. The Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum is sponsoring this free event, explains museum manager Shelby Henderson. “This is one of the world’s top performing artists of the Geechee-Gullah culture, and all descendants are of African slaves. They will be offering a history and heritage presentation […]

Police in Oconee County have arrested a Washington state woman on charges of Prostitution after conducting an operation in the Fair Play area.  According to Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jimmy Watt, 54 year old Chun Son Rader of Olympia was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center early Wednesday. On Tuesday agents from the Narcotics/Vice Unit of the Sheriff’s Office executed a search […]

Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputies have arrested two people in connection with an early morning shooting in Salem. It happened around 4:00 AM Tuesday on Clearcut Drive. Police responded to the scene where they found a victim with a gunshot wound to the upper torso. The victim was airlifted to Greenville Memorial Hospital. According to Jimmy Watt, Sheriff’s Office Spokesman, two suspects, […]

By Chad Dorsett Confused about who to vote for this Presidential Election year? Not yet old enough to vote? Take the stress off by participating in the Oconee County Public Library’s (OCPL) Vote For Book Characters campaign, explains Branch Services Librarian Blair Hinson. “No political scandals, noisy pundits, or robo-calls to worry about with this one. Just fill out a […]

Wildlife biologists are warning Upstate residents and visitors not to closely approach a young bull elk that has wandered into South Carolina from North Carolina.  The first official sighting of an elk in South Carolina was made on Friday, Oct. 21 at Camp McCall, a South Carolina Baptist Convention camp on US 178 in northern Pickens County. In the following […]

Wildlife biologists are warning Upstate residents and visitors not to closely approach a young bull elk that has wandered into South Carolina from North Carolina.  The first official sighting of an elk in South Carolina was made on Friday, Oct. 21 at Camp McCall, a South Carolina Baptist Convention camp on US 178 in northern Pickens County. In the following […]

Tom Markovich, partner in the project to turn the former Oconee Courthouse into a 19-room hotel with a restaurant, a pub, and maybe a spa, says, “The latest publication of the National Park Service announced the listing of the Oconee County Courthouse on the National Register of Historic Places.”  According to Markovich, it’s one more item off the checkoff list […]

  A City Hall luncheon celebrated Seneca’s achievement of 10 years of free bus passenger service–thru the regional Clemson Area Transit.  Since contracting with “CAT”, Seneca has taken its part of the system to a new level.  The city remains the only service to feature an all-electric power fleet of buses, in place of diesel-fueled buses.  City Administrator Greg Dietterick […]

Indications are increasing that the development in the works for Seneca property that looks down on Lake Keowee is some type of Marriott hotel.  A source in position to know told 101.7/WGOG NEWS today that city officials have been told it’s to be a “Marriott product.”  But they haven’t been told which one.  According to the hotel company website, Marriott […]