Valuable truck stolen from dealership

A stolen F-350 Platinum pickup truck is the object of an Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation.  The truck belonging to Edwards Auto Sales carried a sticker value of $83,270 and was reported stolen from the lot during the night of June 21-22.  A sheriff’s deputy requested that his office enter the vehicle into the NCIC—the National Crime Information Center.

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Carjacking without great bodily harm

  The police in Seneca arrested a 34-year old woman last evening in their investigation of a car hijacking in which the suspect hit the owner and stole his car.  That car, which displayed a South Dakota license plate, was found behind the home of the woman arrested.  Law enforcement records show a charge of carjacking without great bodily injury […]

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Federal dollars could be West Union’s solution

  A newly re-named assistance program could be the solution to pressing waterline projects in West Union.  The town council this morning met in workshop with members of the Rosier Group of Easley.  Troy Rosier started the get together by reminding the mayor and the four-member council of the small Oconee town of the millions of dollars available through “ARPA”—the […]

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Homicide in eastern Oconee

Coroner Karl Addis provides this account of a new Oconee County homicide: “A 67-year-old Seneca woman was found dead in her home on Monday afternoon, July 4, 2022. Nancy Popham, 67, of Country Kin Road, Seneca, was found dead shortly after 4 pm Monday by a family member. Ms. Popham is believed to have died late Sunday night or early […]

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Noise complaints — N. Myrtle Beach

  It’s likely that few vacationers go to Myrtle Beach for the peace and solitude of a quiet and tranquil shoreline.  Yet how much noise should be tolerated in the city of North Myrtle Beach has become a controversy in which one of the players is a national organization that fights for civil liberties.  The American Civil Liberties Union of […]

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Approval for new Lake Keowee residential marina

A government agency has authorized a new residential marina on Lake Keowee at the Seneca end of the lake near the 123 By-Pass.  Approval by “FERC”—the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission—comes on an application by Duke Energy on behalf of Kensington Estates.  The marina project, covering about one-half acre of land and water, is classified under the shoreline management plan for […]

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A plea for info toward crime solving in Elbert County, Georgia

The GBI and Elbert County Sheriff’s Office are asking for the public’s help in identifying the person or persons responsible for the blast that destroyed part of the Georgia Guidestones near Elberton. Due to the damage from the blast, the Guidestones were demolished Wednesday afternoon. According to the GBI, the preliminary information indicates that unknown individuals detonated an explosive device […]

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Kay Hart

Westminster– Kay Anne Hart, 67, passed away Saturday, July 2, 2022 at Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital.   Born in Dunedin, Florida, Kay was the daughter of the late Ora S. Hart, Jr. and Jean Lorraine Tinny Ferguson. Kay retired from Walmart where she was a sales representative and was of the Christian Faith.  Kay enjoyed bingo, crafts and […]

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Attempt made to blow granite monumnent

  Someone apparently tried to dynamite a 40-year old granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia—known as the Georgia Guidestones.  A report from Elbert County indicates that the blast was such that people two miles away felt their homes shaking. According to one history account, the monument was the work of a mysterious individual and what’s happened now is not the […]

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