Category: News

Oconee County’s First Steps celebrates the Week of the Young Child this morning by distributing “Resource Guides for Families with Young Children.” Representatives of all Oconee law enforcement agencies are to receive the guides at 10 o’clock this morning in the administrative offices of the Seneca Police Department. According to Marie Dunnam, executive director of First Steps, the idea came […]

A 35-year old Easley man fell from his boat to his death late yesterday afternoon in Lake Keowee. Coroner Karl Addis says the body of Charles David Keeney will be autopsied to assist with the investigation of what’s presumed to have been a drowning death. Oconee County 9-1-1 was activated at 4:05 p-m by a report of a man “had […]

  Two homes near Seneca were the scenes last week of drive-by shootings, and the Sheriff’s Department seeks the public’s help to solve the crimes. The drive-by shootings occurred Wednesday during the early morning hours. First, just before 4 a-m on Gallo Way, not far from the Shiloh Road. The second, a little more than 90 minutes later on Dyar […]

Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw issued the following statement today to 96.3/WGOG NEWS on the possibility that prisoners will be directed to help return the Walhalla Swimming Pool to working order: “In reference to the inmate labor issue for the Walhalla City Pool, I have heard anywhere from 10 to 20 inmates being used and housed at our jail. If asked, […]

Nearly three-quarters of Walhalla homeowners in target area qualify under the government’s low-income standards. And that leaves Scott Parris, the city utilities director, confident that a community development block grant will be approved to pay for replacing additional water lines in the Walhalla’s Chicopee Mill Village. The grant application is due Monday. This morning a perfunctory public hearing was conducted […]

A day after DHEC came to town, Walhalla’s representative to Oconee County Council, Wayne McCall, is liking the County Seat’s chances for re-opening its swimming pool this year. The Department of Health and Environmental Control sent a team of a half dozen inspectors yesterday, and McCall said he and the others awaiting their arrival were ready for them. McCall, city […]

Law enforcement reports show a 26-year old Oconee County man arrested and charged with burglary second degree and simple larceny at a house that belonged to a deceased woman. The woman’s son discovered the crime when he went to the home on the Shiloh Road and found it ransacked. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Department, Michael Lane Crooks Jr. of […]

Four students at Walhalla Middle School will attend this summer’s S-C Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. Selected for the two-week program were Jesus Miranda, Gage Picotte, Skylar Stanley, and Mallie Lewis. Summer Discovery is a program for rising ninth graders interested in creative writing, drama, music and visual arts. Jesus passed the audition for instrumental music, Gage will […]

Clemson students starting Sunday are hoping that shoppers will think twice about the problem of hunger in their backyard. Members of a Clemson class are hosting a food drive at the Central Wal-Mart Sunday and Thursday. A sophomore from Pickens, Andrew Hendricks, said he and his fellow students will provide a list of items to buy for the benefit of […]

Nearly 900 students from middle and high schools across South Carolina are at Clemson University today to compete in a biology merit exam. Some came from as far as Maryland and Virginia. The event is designed to test the teenagers’ knowledge of biology and, for some, the inspiration to get involved in science. Associate professor Ricardo Garcia started the event […]