Category: News

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is promoting sex offender awareness.  At the beginning of his term, Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw designated a full-time officer to supervise sex offenders. Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt gives details.  “Sheriff Crenshaw deemed this to be very important, so important that we now have a certified law enforcement officer, Kelly […]

Two blocks of downtown Walhalla will be closed for on May 17-18 for the 2013 Oconee County Cancer Relay for Life, the annual fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. “We have had the Relay at area high schools in the past and we thought it would be good to have the event in downtown Walhalla and invite merchants to join in […]

Readers of all ages will explore things underground this summer as the Oconee County Public Library presents “Dig into Reading” during their summer library program.  Special programs planned include visits from the South Carolina Aquarium, Porkchop Theatre Productions, Ronald McDonald, and Magic with Mr. Ray.  The Library will also be having a Diary of a Worm party, dinosaur digs for toddlers, crafts […]

Ted Stokes, a longtime instructor in Tri-County Technical College’s Industrial Electronics Technology department, received the College’s 2013 Adjunct Faculty Presidential Award on Wednesday. This award is given annually at the spring faculty and staff convocation to the adjunct faculty member who is recognized for excellence in teaching, who has consistently high student evaluations and who supports the philosophy and goals […]

Tri-County Technical College President Dr. Ronnie L. Booth has been elected to serve as a trustee for two national boards. Dr. Booth will serve as a member of the board of trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, the regional accrediting body for higher education degree-granting institutions across the eleven southernmost states.  His term began […]

The three reservoirs operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the upper Savannah River continue to rise and officials have announced the end of drought operations. The full pool levels are 660 feet above mean sea level at Hartwell Lake, 475 feet above mean sea level at Russell Lake and 330 feet above mean sea level at Thurmond Lake. The […]

For the eighth year, the United Way of Oconee County is partnering with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the South Carolina Department Of Social Services Nutrition Program to help feed seniors in the Oconee County in a program called “The Senior’s Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program 2013.” Farmer’s Market Vouchers will be distributed to senior citizens in the county who […]

The Oconee County Education Association recently presented a $500 check to help fund the Back Pack Program for Oconee County students.  With the assistance of Lunch for Life and the Salvation Army, the Back Pack Program has been able to provide food for students that are faced with a food crisis over the weekend.  Once permission is received from the […]

South Carolina residents participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on April 27 turned in 4,701 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state. This exceeded the last take back total in September of 2012, which was 3,539 pounds.  The National Prescription Drug […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a person who was injured in a shooting near Westminster.  According to investigators, 31-year-old Bradley Scott Cantrell is believed to have sustained a gunshot wound to the leg after a domestic incident Wednesday evening around 6pm on Greenfield Road in Westminster.  Cantrell reportedly fled the scene and may be seeking medical attention, […]