Category: News

Late at night Wednesday the Walhalla police responded to a home on N. Johnson Street to investigate the potential of a domestic disturbance. The police presence turned into a drug investigation and two people at the home were arrested. Chief Sean Brinson announces the arrests of April Dawn White and Richard Eugene Cantrell on charges of marijuana possession and trafficking […]

A 3-mile section of Horsepasture Road within the Jim Timmerman Natural Resources Area at Jocassee Gorges in northern Pickens County has been closed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) due to unsafe landslides caused by massive rainfall in the area. The 3-mile section of Horsepasture Road that is now closed is from Bootleg Road south toward Jocassee […]

One of the more horrific cases of Oconee County child abuse was played out in a courtroom two months ago when a young Westminster area man was sentenced to 40 years in prison for what he did two small sisters—one of whom died. Matthew Chappell was not the biological father of the girls, but he had had a relationship with […]

The police in Walhalla arrested two people yesterday in cases alleging neglect. Each case is separate, but both are alleged to have occurred in the first two months of the year. Arrest records disclose Waynesville, North Carolina resident Jennifer Leigh Uhl was charged with unlawful neglect of a helpless person. Nicole Marie Perry of Walhalla was charged with knowing and […]

The sheriff in Hart County, Georgia is not providing details on a case in which someone burglarized the office of the county’s probate judge, but his office is investigating. Judge Merry Kirk discovered the Monday night burglary, in which the intruder broke the glass in the back between her office and the main courthouse.

The meeting room for the Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals filled with property owners last night, motivated in opposition to a pair of applications—one for a variance and the other for a special exception. In each instance the appeals board turned down the application. Potential issues of building one home close to another appeared to sway the board to reject […]

The highway patrol reports a car driver from Westminster, Dustin Brian Stroud, escaped major injury this morning when his car left the right side of the road and overturned.  Troopers say Stroud was operating a 2007 Ford SUV traveling south on Mildred Johnson Road.  The accident occurred near SC 24 shortly before 8 o’clock this morning.  Trooper Joe Hovis said […]

101.7/WGOG NEWS learned that sheriff’s officers were called to Utica around 10 o’clock this morning to investigate a fight. Officers were on scene investigating in the vicinity of Sirrine Street and Jamerson Avenue.

A contractor hired to remodel a home near Lake Keowee was arrested this week by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office on multiple charges. Law enforcement records released by the Sheriff’s Office show Michael Dean Bledsoe, 29, of Toccoa, Georgia was charged with grand larceny, malicious injury to real property, and obtaining signature or property under false pretenses at 214 Shoreline Drive […]

www.eventbrite.com (search for Great Oconee Clean Up) is the place to head to on the web for Oconeeans to sign up as volunteers in tomorrow’s litter pick up event in the Seneca area. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says with two Great Oconee Cleanups in the books, his office has learned some things to enhance the safety of those working on one-mile […]