Category: News

Friday night’s pedestrian train death, according to the Westminster police, occurred in the vicinity of E. Main and Dickson streets.  The coroner said Nicky Paul Thibodeaux, 48, lost his life around 7:30 when hit by a northbound freight train.  Thibodeaux died of blunt force trauma injuries. The accident, according to what Police Chief Matt Patterson learned, involved a long nose […]

Seems like many of us have had a new case of COVID or, at the least, we’ve known of someone who has.  So, we thought it a good time this afternoon to take a check of the pandemic temperature with Billy Campbell, Westminster physician.  Dr. Campbell’s attitude?  “Overall, the news is good.”  And he says that when you compare case […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man yesterday on multiple charges related to a series of property crimes that occurred this month.   21 year old Tristen Caleb Key of Little Choestoea Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 6:20pm yesterday.  Key was taken into custody during a warrant service at his home address.   […]

To make your preference count for Oconee School Board this year, do not vote for a straight-party ticket in November.  Chieftains of political parties like it when a voter will vote a straight party line but, as the boss of Oconee Elections has explained to 101.7/WGOG NEWS, you can’t vote for a non-partisan candidate, such as school board, if you […]

Abortion in South Carolina…and the question of what’s legal and what is not. Oconee’s two state representatives are gearing up for a return to the capital city next week for a legislative session devoted to one topic only–abortion.  Republicans Bill Whitmire of District One and Bill Sandifer of District Two have outlined their positions heading into next week, and their […]

Another year has passed on the calendar—still without determination why a Clemson student died during an early morning run from campus to the Oconee side of Lake Hartwell.  This has been a week for county Sheriff Mike Crenshaw to explain where the ongoing investigation stands.  Information reward money stands at $100 thousand.  There have been some leads but, so far, […]

The head of South Carolina’s legal department has told 101.7/WGOG NEWS that he and a handful of other state attorney’s general across the country believe the U-S Justice Department is being “weaponized” in the squabble of whether former President Donald Trump was in thew wrong to possess at his Mar-a-Lago Florida home secret government documents.  Moments before South Carolina’s Alan […]

The plane flying the state Attorney’s General for an Oconee County dinner speaking was forced to divert away from the Oconee Regional Airport and its closed runway.  The solution for A-G Alan Wilson, according to Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw, was landing at the Anderson airport and taking a helicopter flight to Oconee.  And that’s why Wilson was a tad late […]

Master Deputy Watt of Oconee Sheriff’s Office: “Just got word a few minutes ago from an Investigator that Isaac Joseph Smith, who was the subject of a Missing Person’s News Release Wednesday, has been located and is safe.  We thank our media partners and our citizens and the public for their assistance.”

This statement this afternoon from Master Deputy Jimmy Watt, office spokesman, wraps up a missing person alert case for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office: “I was notified by an Investigator that Charlotte Ann Sandoval Arzola, who was the subject of a Missing Person’s News Release on Tuesday evening, has been located and is safe.  We thank our media partners and our […]