Category: News

A hiker required a Saturday afternoon rescue in the vicinity of Walhalla’s Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel Park.  According to information received by 101.7/WGOG NEWS, the hiker fell at Isaqueena Falls and required a rescue operation, using ropes, to bring him up so that he could receive the medical attention he required.  That rescue operation took place around the 4 o’clock hour […]

A change in the Westminster zoning map will be considered during a meeting tomorrow night at City Hall.  On the agenda of the planning commission is an application to change the single-family zoning classification that applies to 215 Lucky Street.  The planning commissioners will take public comment on whether to change the zoning to multi-family residential.  The hearing will be […]

South Carolina DHEC yesterday announced COVID-19 cases and deaths recorded by Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  But the cumulative totals and percent positives on the website reflect the latest data reported by Christmas Day.  By Christmas Eve, new confirmed and positive cases statewide:  2,550; deaths, 14.  Among the new cases:  41 Oconeeans.  Of 18,600 individual test results reported statewide, the […]

Weather considerations have led Prisma Health to close its drive-thru COVID-19 tests on Saturday, December 26 at the Oconee Memorial Hospital.  For updates on operating hours at the OMH, you can check www.prismahealth.org/coronavirus.  (Site hours at some locations can change based on inclement weather such as freezing temperatures or heavy rain.) Upstate physicians are stressing families should limit holiday gatherings […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has posted a Crimestoppers Alert for three black males who robbed a convenience store late at night near Seneca.  Sheriff’s officers were alerted to the robbery of the J-and-Z Food Mart on the Shiloh Road around 10:30 Saturday night, December 19.  The suspects are three black males who wore gloves and masks.  Each was dressed in a […]

  The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office held a promotions ceremony on November 24th to honor and recognize Deputies and Detention Officers who not only received promotions, but in some cases, were awarded for their response in saving lives.   The following deputies were recognized and received a Life Saving Award:   Deputy Charlie Smith – Uniform Patrol Division – Use […]

Numbers that track the COVID-19 spread in South Carolina have risen from one day to the next–from yesterday to today.  On today’s report, there are 3,559 new cases; deaths went up from 15 to 49.  The 49 include one elderly Oconeean who died Friday, December 18.  New Oconee cases reported today numbered 65.  Total test results received by the state […]

Late this morning, a swearing-in for the re-elected Mike Crenshaw of Oconee.  For the county sheriff, it’ll be a third, four-year term.  One of the changes that he can foresee in the immediate future is for a number of retirements by veteran officers, which means that increasingly, the duties are being turned over to a younger generation of officers who […]

In Westminster’s future, there will be a new recreation complex.  Mayor Brian Ramey announces that, effective Friday, December 18, the city closed the deal with property owner Joel Thrift to complete the purchase of 62 acres on Hall Road.  That acreage, combined with city-owned 15 adjoining acres, is considered enough to be able to build a facility that will greatly […]

The South Carolina chief justice decision to again cancel jury trials means the remaining co-defendant from a Seneca homicide case must wait indefinitely for his day in court.  Chief Justice Beatty’s recent decision was influenced by spikes in deaths and cases of COVID-19.  Decota Brown is accused of fatally shooting his grandmother, Geraldine Castle, in March 2019. Brown’s co-defendant, Hunter […]