Category: News

A 25-year fixture in Westminster is re-locating soon but he’s confident that, from a planning standpoint, the city is left with a good future.  Wendell Tidwell serves as the long-time chairman of the planning commission, and he’ll preside tomorrow night at his last zoning hearing.  In an interview with 101.7/WGOG NEWS, Tidwell believes his city’s adopted comprehensive plan is a […]

Who says it never snows in these parts on Christmas?  Though it didn’t last long, weather watcher Barbara Wilson in Walhalla notes a dusting of snow on Christmas Day morning.  Most of the precipitation measured.  Between Wednesday and Thursday, December 23 and 24, she measured “right at 2″ of melted precipitation” (rain).

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 […]