Category: News

  One stabbing victim in Oconee County this morning is getting emergency medical attention, and a law enforcement investigation is underway.  A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office says a bloody victim was found this morning in the Keowee Community, on Knox Landing Road near the Evatt Road.  A medical helicopter has flown the stabbing victim for treatment.       […]

Jail is no fun place to be.  The Oconee Sheriff on Friday told a meeting in Seneca that between 30 and 40 percent of the inmate population has battled depression.  At least once a week a service is extended to the county’s prisoners.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says a mental health professional makes a weekly visit to the jail in Walhalla […]

One of the first things that Dr. Mike Lucas did last year after retiring as the Oconee Superintendent of Education was to take a trip around the world.  Lucas will share that experience during today’s meeting of the Walhalla Rotary Club.

Oconee County Democrats are bringing in a member of their party’s national committee to help raise money for the county party during their 4th annual picnic near Seneca.  The event takes places 5 to 8 pm Sunday, June 12 at the South Cove County Park.  Featured speaker will be State Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter of Orangeburg, member of the Democratic National […]

Security footage taken in Fair Play shows a man placed two bottles of alcohol inside his pants and walked out of a store without paying.  The shoplifting on the afternoon of May 27 took place at the Sweet Water Wine and Spirits on s. highway 11.  The value of the two bottles of alcohol taken is $79.98. If you have […]

A traffic stop led to the arrest of a 33-year old Oconeean, Heath Allen Bates, on charges of intent to defraud the South Carolina Education Lottery.  Investigators say they learned of attempts on Wednesday to cash stolen lottery tickets at a business on Highway 11 south.  Lottery security was notified and later investigators initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle […]

The office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced the arrest of a 19-year old woman in that state on charges that she sexually assaulted a 10-year old girl, video-taped the abuse, and disseminated the recordings to others.  The arrest of Carissa Lee Vadala was announced by Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane as part of an investigation by agents with […]

It’s graduation weekend in Oconee where one of the ceremonies will make history.  The seniors at Tamassee-Salem High School are receiving the final diplomas in that school’s history.  The school is closing and its students are being re-assigned to the Walhalla attendance zone.  One Tamassee-Salem graduate tonight, Randall Martin, intends to perform a song he has written about the closing […]

  A chamber of commerce audience at Seneca this morning heard from the man who is the 21st sheriff in Oconee’s long history, which officially started about three years after the end to the Civil War.  Sheriff Mike Crenshaw was the guest speaker for the latest in a series of public policy chats with movers and shakers of Oconee County.  […]

Oconeeans crowded a meeting room at the Walhalla Civic Auditorium for a chance to size up the two men seeking the District Two seat on the County Council.  On one side of the table was Wayne McCall, the incumbent who is trying for a third, 4-year term.  On the other, Jared Ketterman, the challenger.  In between was Keith Denny who […]