Category: News

Oconee Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help to locate a 22-year-old man considered a wanted subject in an April 19 shooting incident in Utica.  Nicolas Sebastian Palmero is the second man charged in the investigation.  Against him is the allegation:  discharging a firearm into a dwelling.  The sheriff’s office requests any information on the whereabouts of 22-year-old Palmero by calling […]

The two candidates to be the GOP nominee for District Two, Oconee County Council are at loggerheads over the extent to which there are problems with the county’s elections.  Incumbent Matthew Durham and challenger India Lancaster took on a question of whether the county’s elections office failed a government audit, with Durham saying no audit was failed, rather an assessment […]

Westminster City Council in a special meeting passed the first of two required votes to allow Kansas and Florida-based companies to design and build the city’s new recreation complex on Hall Street.  The representatives of those companies, Mammoth Sports Construction of Meriden, Kansas and SFC, Sports Facilities Companies of Clearwater, Florida, made clear to the council that while their base […]

An audience of around 75 people heard the men and women competing this year for Seats 2 and 5 on the Oconee County Council.  And the crowd was not shy with its applause, much of the time polite applause to what the candidates said and an occasional rousing applause when they especially liked what they heard.  This was a night […]

Five of the six hopefuls this year for Oconee County Council took part in last night’s League of Women Voters forum in Seneca.  The one no-show:  District Four challenger Tommy James.  An LWV ruling forbade James’s opponent, the incumbent Julian Davis, from taking part, although Davis was permitted brief introductory comments.  In those comments, Davis said the OCC, the Oconee […]

At the request of Sgt. Alan Sayre of the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, a prayer vigil takes place tonight at the Law Enforcement Center, 300 S. Church, Walhalla for the families, friends, co-workers, and agencies of those who were shot and killed yesterday in a law enforcement action in Charlotte, North Carolina. The public is invited.  Those going are requested to […]

Two hikers who became separated on the Foothills Trail have been reunited and are OK, according to Scott Krein of Oconee Emergency Management.  A combined search/rescue today by personnel from both Oconee and Pickens counties succeeded.  Krein explains one hiker maintained cell service; the other lost it.

Contrary to previous intentions, Gwen McPhail says she will attend tonight’s political forum in Seneca. McPhail is challenging Glenn Hart to be the Republican nominee for Seat 5, County Council.

A recent wire service story headline (from Associated Press) read: “SC has $1.8 billion but doesn’t know where the money came from or where it should go.”  Seneca’s state lawmaker, Bill Sandifer, deplores what’s happened and suggests what should be done with the money.  The state representative’s comments are being aired today on 101.7/WGOG NEWS.

A civil suit filed yesterday in Oconee alleges proper care was not afforded a jail inmate after a 2022 beating in the facility recreation yard.  Filed for Kenneth Garrett, a penal detainee at the time, the suit alleges he was beaten by a fellow inmate during recreation time on December 3, 2022 to the extent that Garrett sustained a fractured […]