Category: News

Long-time Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis has been named the South Carolina Coroner of the Year. The honor came last week during the annual convention of the coroners who serve the state’s 46 counties. Addis is enjoying his final term in office, having decided that he will not run for re-election when his current four-year term expires at the end […]

Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw today announced the release of a traffic safety public service announcement with multi-platinum, award winning country music performer Toby Keith. The PSA was created with support and funding through a cooperative agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The NSA has distributed the PSA to 1900 TV outlets and radio stations across the […]

At their meeting last night, the city of Walhalla’s planning commissioners voted to recommend allowing retail stores of more than eight thousand square feet floor space, but confining them to office commercial, highway commercial, and light industrial zoning districts, and not in residential zones. Other conditions include off-street parking and conformity to downtown design guidelines. The planning commission action is […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office held a promotions ceremony recently to honor and recognize Officers. At the Detention Center, Master Corrections Officer Maria Melendez and Corrections Officer Hope Raby-Cassell were promoted to Corporal, and Daniel Williams was promoted to Sergeant and Animal Control Coordinator for the Oconee County Animal Shelter. Two deputies, Lt. Tommy Crompton and Corporal Jake Spence, each […]

Anderson Area Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the recent theft of a pickup truck. In the early morning hours of June 8, a 2003 Ford F-350 pickup truck valued at $20,000 was stolen from the gated and locked parking lot of Vacations-To-Go on Belton Highway in Williamston. In the […]

If you are trying to make driving time, this is a good morning to stay off the bypass. Crews are back on the job to re- pave Mtn View Dr. @123 and just before 11am west bound traffic is backed up from the lights to beyond the overhead bridge.

As the current Chief Deputy of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office was thinking about a career, Kevin Davis thought about forestry management as a possible way to earn a living. When he began to look at the law enforcement side of his possible chosen career, he found something that interested him. Upon doing research, the future law enforcement officer and […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office received word of two instances of a particular scam in which the victims stated that they had received a call from a local number. The caller identified himself as Lt. Randall Day. In the first instance, the caller told the victim that there was a problem with some paperwork in regards to the victim’s registration […]

The body of a Greenville man was pulled from Lake Hartwell last night around 10:30pm. Anderson County’s Chief Deputy Coroner Charlie Boseman said that 56-year old Louis Eddie Crawford and some friends were at the Portman Marina when he fell into the water and hit his head. His body was located by divers in about forty feet of water in […]