Teenager is missing

Oconee Sheriff’s Office alerts the public to a missing teenager.  Giselle Eve Hendershot, 15 years old, was last seen about midnight Saturday at her home address, Britton Drive near Seneca.  She is 5’5”, 160 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes.  Giselle wears nose piercings and tattoos on her left forearm and left ankle.  She may have a red book bag.  If […]

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Burglar used a metal pipe to inflict damage

A young woman burglarized a West Union business and used a metal pipe to inflict major property damage, according to the owners of Top Shelf Storage.  Crystal Clevenger admitted her deed yesterday afternoon in the General Sessions courtroom,  but she said she could not explain why she did it, when asked by the judge.  “I have no answer for that, […]

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Walhalla in a building slowdown

Walhalla City Council learned last night that the county’s second largest municipality has entered a development slowdown.  The city utilities’ director, Scott Parris, attributes this to “money getting tighter” as the Federal Reserve will announce today whether it will issue another interest rate increase to try to tame inflation.  Parris told the mayor and council that a current lack of […]

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Walhalla Rec basketball

243.  That was the number of registrants by Monday for Walhalla Recreation Department basketball teams.  They are signing up for girls 14 and under basketball, as well as 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 year old boys’ teams.  John Galbreath, recreation director, says many parents this year are opting for online registration, in place of in-person registration at the department […]

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Fake money investigation in Oconee

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in a counterfeit money investigation.   The Sheriff’s Office is also seeking the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in relation to the investigation.   A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to the Dollar General, on Wells Highway near Seneca, on October 26th in regard to […]

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Betty Walker Gray

    Betty Jean Walker Gray, age 88, passed away on October 29th, 2022 at Lila Doyle Skilled Nursing Center in Seneca, SC, with family by her side.    Betty was born in Atlanta, GA on February 20, 1934, the daughter of Rogers Raymond Walker and Mary Gladys Kemp Walker.  She lived in Atlanta until 1942 when her family moved […]

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Jury verdict guilty … and sentenced follows

An Oconee jury today found Damian Bennett guilty of assault and battery second degree.  The judge’s sentence spares Bennett from prison.  A court officer reports Judge McIntosh handed down the following sentence:  18 months in prison, suspended to five years’ probation.  Bennett, who defended himself without an attorney, went on trial yesterday accused of assault and battery in a West […]

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Arrest alleging burglary near Seneca

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Easley man on multiple charges last Friday, including a charge of First Degree Burglary.   41 year old Marshall Adam Race, of Fledging Way, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on October 28th around 11:22am.  Race was transported from the Pickens County Detention Center to the Oconee County Detention Center and […]

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