Category: News

A benefit concert for the Oconee County project of Safe Harbor will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, 6pm at the Walhalla High School Auditorium.  Lisa Nalley of Sun City Promotions gives details.  “We need this shelter for victims of domestic abuse here in Oconee County and this will be an opportunity to come and hear a variety of musical artists, […]

Oconee Medical Center named Chesley Milam as its Employee of the Month for August 2013. Milam is a security officer and has been with Oconee Medical Center for just over a year. Milam was nominated by his Supervisor based upon an email he received from an emergency department nurse recounting Milam’s kindness toward a grieving visitor. A gentleman was brought to the emergency department and subsequently died. […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announces the graduation of Jonathan Hodge from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia.  Hodge is the second graduate of the Academy since Mike Crenshaw became Sheriff of Oconee County on January 1st.  Hodge is a 2007 graduate of Walhalla High School and a 2012 graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor of Science […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announces the retirement of School Resource Officer Jerry Turner after more than 25 years in law enforcement.  Turner’s full-time retirement became effective on Friday, August 16th.  Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says Turner will continue to serve in the role of a reserve deputy.  Turner served 17 years as a reserve officer for the City […]

A Federal Grand Jury in Greenville recently indicted three Anderson County residents as well as a corporation in Anderson County.  United States Attorney Bill Nettles announces that 62-year-old Nancy Marie Stein and American Screw and Rivet Corporation were charged in a twelve-count indictment with bank fraud.  The maximum penalty Stein could receive for each count is 30-years imprisonment and a fine […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents to watch out for mail theft after reports of mail being stolen over the last several weeks.  The Sheriff’s Office has five incident reports on file of reported mail thefts, stretching from the middle part of May to August 10th.  Investigators say that there have been other mail theft cases that have […]

Two North Carolina men have been arrested in the case of vandalism to Howard’s Rock, an iconic symbol of the Clemson University football program. Clemson University police charged 46-year-old Michael Rogers of Pisgah Forest and 17-year-old Alden James Gainey of Brevard with felony counts of conspiracy and obstructing justice. The two men appeared before a Pickens County magistrate on Friday […]

With the beginning of a new school year comes time once again to join your favorite high school’s booster club.  Seneca High School Athletic Director Duke Lee says joining the Seneca High School Booster Club is easy and money raised goes to support all student-athletes at the school.  “We have a great Booster Club, it is an arm of the […]

Rain, rain go away.  That is the sound you will hear coming from a group of volunteers trying to clean up the South Carolina Botanical Garden in Clemson.  The Garden was damaged by a storm last month and heavy rain has been delaying restoration work.  Volunteers have been trying to remove that debris and clean up silt, so rebuilding can […]

More rain is expected in the Upstate of South Carolina over the next few days.  With record amounts of rain already received in this area this summer, saturated ground could give way increasing the likely of flooding.  Oconee County Emergency officials are urging people to prepare in advance of flooding.  Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt offers […]