Category: News

The bi-ennial convention of Oconee County Republicans will take place Saturday morning, April 13 in the auditorium of Seneca High School. One year and seven months before the 2020 General Election, county Republicans will gather to elect officers along with delegates and alternates to the state convention. Special guest speakers will be Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Jeff Duncan. All […]

When America’s voters sent Donald Trump to the White House, in part, the vote was seen to create a White House friendlier to the business community, considering Trump’s business background. But, a spokesman for one federal agency says, there’s been no relaxation of the rules that his agency applies to the nuclear power industry. Roger Hannah, speaks for the NRC’s […]

Oconee County Council this week approved an upgrade to its public safety radio system. It’s an approximate $71 thousand job that will go Toccoa, Georgia’s Gunby Communications. The council acted after being told that the upgrade will standardize all remote receiver sites with the same equipment and same methods of operation. The entire network is being transitioned to microwave radio […]

Robberies, burglaries, sexual assaults, are among the categories of crime that are decreasing across Oconee County, according to Sheriff Crenshaw’s analysis of the numbers. But there’s one area of crime that has seen an upswing. There are an increasing number of people in Oconee who display light fingers when it comes to a vehicle belonging to someone else. There were […]

City of Clemson is enlisting the public to cry out to state lawmakers to ask them to vote against legislation. The city claims bills in both chambers of the legislature would amount to an unconstitutional erosion of home rule. The specific issue is taking away from municipalities the right to govern where small cell wireless facilities are placed. Among Clemson’s […]

United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon authored today an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal highlighting the public safety threat posed by contraband cellphones in prisons entitled, “Let States Jam Prison Cellphones.” U.S. Attorney Lydon also announced a series of cases the U.S. Attorney’s Office has prosecuted in federal court to help stop the flow of contraband cellphones into […]

Staff members from the Atlanta office of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission took over part of the lobby of Duke’s World of Energy for their annual public presentation of how things are going with the Oconee Nuclear Station. They brought good news from Atlanta. Bottom line for the performance of Oconee nuclear units 1, 2, and 3, as spelled out in […]

Two men were arrested Wednesday on drug charges after a search of a home near the Smith Dairy Farm Road in southern Oconee. The arrests of Clifford Ritter and Charles Whitney Batts preceded by one day Sheriff Crenshaw’s statement that he wants the courts to get tougher on those who distribute drugs. Of the two arrested, among other charges, Batts […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office last year investigated four cases of homicide and was involved in a total of 19 death investigations. The Sheriff’s Office, in all, fielded more than 170,000 telephone calls, of which there were 36,000 emergencies. The non-stop scourge of drug violations went unabated in 2018, as the county narcotics unit made 310 cases and the uniformed patrol division […]

Salem native and U-S sailor Jonathan Coward is an engineman responsible for equipment used by the navy’s explosive ordnance disposal unit operating out of San Diego, California. Coward works on small boats, engines on the boats, dive gear, and weaponry, and he credits his childhood hobby of working on his dad’s truck as helping him transition into a career. A […]