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Eighth graders at Seneca Middle School are set to return to face to face instruction tomorrow, September 29th. After a small cluster of COVID-19 was found among the 8th grade class at Seneca Middle, the School District moved the class to distance learning for two weeks back on September 15th. The decision was made in consultation with DHEC, local medical […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be hosting its next Pill Take Back Day at two different locations on Saturday, October 24th. The two events will be held from 10am until 2pm at the Sheriff’s Office Substation which is located near the Emergency Room at Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital and also at the Law Enforcement Center at 300 South […]

City administrator Scott Moulder said that the flags flying at Seneca’s Miracle Circle have been temporarily taken down. The flags, Moulder said have been severely battered by recent storms and are being refurbished.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is providing COVID-19 testing opportunities in the Upstate. Tests will be given daily this week from 8 a.m.-3:00 p.m. at the Anderson County Health Department; also every day this week from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Pickens County Health Department; and on Wednesday, September 30 from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., and […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced 569 new confirmed cases and 16 new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 3 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. This brings the total number of confirmed cases to 141,909, probable cases to 3,978, confirmed deaths to 3,144, and 182 probable deaths. 7 cases were confirmed […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Free, self-administered COVID–19 testing continues to be available at Founders Park and Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Columbia as part of surge testing provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The testing offered is simple and pain-free and DHEC is working to begin incorporating this type of self-administered test at its testing locations. US Surgeon General Jerome Adams was in Columbia recently and demonstrated the simplicity of the self […]

In continuing efforts to educate and inform citizens and to prevent them from becoming victims of scams, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is releasing their September 2020 Scams Update. The Sheriff’s Office received a report of a COVID-19 related scam. The scam involved the stealing of $800 from a savings account of the victim. The victim was on a social […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A health advisory issued yesterday by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) offers preventive strategies for prescribers and prescription drug dispensers across the state to address increased opioid overdoses since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although suspected overdose numbers have decreased since May, rates remain 50 percent higher than this time last year. The […]