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The School District of Oconee County Board of Trustees named Dean Bare to fill the District I seat vacancy left by the passing of long time board member Jerry Lee.  Trustees interviewed the three finalists this afternoon before naming their choice in open session at the regularly scheduled board meeting this evening. Mr. Bare will be sworn in at the […]

DHEC announced 539 new confirmed cases and 29 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 11 additional confirmed deaths, and 1 new probable death. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 157,970, probable cases to 6,639, confirmed deaths to 3,449, and 212 probable deaths. 22 new cases were confirmed in Anderson County; Pickens County added 36 new […]

On Monday, Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 28 year-old Jeremy Tanner Gibbs on charges of possession of a weapon during a violent crime; Pointing and Presenting a Firearm at a Person and Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature. He remains in jail with a bond set in the amount of $100,000.

According to arrest records from the Oconee County Detention Center, on Monday Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 24 year-old Justin Dale Duncan on two counts each of attempted murder and pointing a firearm at another person. He is also charged with one count each of high and aggravated criminal domestic violence and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. He remains in […]

The prospective in life that one sees on a daily basis can affect someone’s future, in a positive way or a negative one. For Captain Ken Washington of the Special Operations Division of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, the view of life he saw growing up in Seneca at the 6th Street projects and on the Utica Mill Hill provided […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man last Friday morning on outstanding warrants that charge him with First Degree Burglary and Criminal Sexual Conduct – First Degree. 38 year old Brandon Wayne Arnold of Gail Court was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center October 16th around 6:15 am. Arnold has also been charged with a Violation of […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Pendleton man around 3:30 am Monday morning. 34 year old Donovan Craig Jenkins of Greenville Street was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on one count each of First Degree Burglary, Pointing and Presenting a Firearm at a Person and Assault and Battery of a High and Aggravated Nature. He remains in […]

DHEC announced 722 new confirmed cases and 20 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 12 additional confirmed deaths and 1 new probable death. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 157,394, probable cases to 6,596, confirmed deaths to 3,439, and 211 probable deaths. 25 new cases and three deaths were confirmed in Anderson County; Pickens County […]

Seneca Police said they responded to a fight at Mullen’s Irish Pub around 11 p.m. Saturday. Multiple people were treated by EMS and taken to the hospital to be checked out, however, we are told that none of the injuries were life threatening. Police said that a person of interest has been implicated, but at this time no charges have […]

Not long before 10:00 pm Friday night, a pedestrian was struck by two vehicles and pronounced dead at the scene, about a half mile west of Anderson. Trooper Joe Hovis with the South Carolina Highway Patrol has more…