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A new convenience store near Seneca received approval this week for a zoning variance for stacked signs. The Stop-A-Minit store, now under construction, will be located on Sandifer Boulevard across from Wal-Mart. The Oconee Board of Appeals approved a variance for an increase of 93 square feet from a 75 square-foot limit for stack signs. Dave Smith of Anderson’s Signarama […]

Wednesday was the first day of the fall semester for the Class of 2026, and Clemson University welcomed a record-setting class of around 4,705 first-year undergraduates to campus. These new students represent 45 states and the District of Columbia and 16 countries. Fifty-two percent are South Carolina residents, representing 274 high schools. This year’s class includes 96 high school valedictorians […]

Oconee General Sessions Court records show that a plea to burglary associated with the shooting death of an elderly Seneca woman three years ago has been vacated and dismissed. For Hunter Lee Hunnicutt, that means no added prison time for his role in the March 2019 death of Seneca resident Geraldine Castle. Hunnicutt, 17 at the time, accompanied co-defendant, Decota […]

Investigators from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Bureau, working in partnership with agents from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Fugitive Task Force Unit, arrested a Westminster man Wednesday on three outstanding warrants on charges of False Information about a Bomb Threat. 43 year old Jeffrey Adam Holbert of Act Valley Trail was taken into custody around 2:52pm […]

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in Seneca this afternoon near the intersection of North Cherry Street and EN 1st Street. The individual was flown by medical helicopter to Greenville to receive treatment for unspecified injuries. We are working to learn more information from Seneca Police officials, who are investigating.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) confirmed that a skunk found near Fred Dean Road and Luke Bouknight Road in Starr, SC has tested positive for rabies. No people are known to have been exposed at this time. Three dogs were exposed and will be quarantined as required in the South Carolina Rabies Control Act. The skunk was submitted […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Gov. Henry McMaster today released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s debt forgiveness scheme: “Thread by thread, President Biden and the liberal Democrats are destroying the fabric of this great nation. A fabric that has held this great nation together for almost two hundred and fifty years. “The American Dream of prosperity and happiness – […]