Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man yesterday on multiple charges, including a charge of Attempted Murder. 68 year old Guy Jimmy Shook of Owens Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:10pm Tuesday. Shook has also been charged by the Sheriff’s Office with one count each of Assault and Battery – 3rd Degree and […]
Read moreThe Oconee County Public Library is excited to announce the debut of a new resource in our children’s collection: story time kits! Story time kits are just what they sound like – collections of books and activities with a central theme that help you create meaningful literary experiences with your child. With kit themes like counting, colors, ABCs, and much […]
Read moreSeneca will use a Greenville company to help qualify for millions of dollars in reimbursement costs from the April 13 tornado, and it’s Goodwyn, Mills and Caywood – the same company with which Oconee County has contracted. Mayor Dan Alexander said that the City is comfortable with the firm because they have used them before… The tornado costs to city […]
Read moreA late Tuesday afternoon accident near Seneca injured a motorcyclist on Mauldin Mill Road. Although the motorcyclist’s injuries were non-life threatening, he was still flown to a Greenville hospital. The cyclist, who wore a helmet, was thrown from his bike about 60 feet and landed on pavement, according to reports from officials.
Read moreThe South Carolina Department Of Health And Environmental Control has issued a Code Orange Ground Level Ozone Action Day for The Upstate, From 10 am To 8 pm EDT Wednesday. An Ozone Action Day means that atmospheric conditions will likely produce unhealthy concentrations of ground level ozone air pollution. A Code Orange forecast indicates that ground level ozone concentrations are […]
Read moreYesterday, according to Prisma Health officials, 924 people were tested during an 11 hour long COVID-19 community testing event, the second such event held at Blue Ridge Elementary in Seneca, but the first held for that length of time. Until Tuesday, community testing events lasted approximately four hours. Area residents waited for up to an hour to get the swab […]
Read moreWalhalla has a new tool to help keep down speeding violations on loan from the state in the form of a portable speed radar trailer. For now, it is positioned at the Blue Ridge Boulevard- Kenneth Street traffic lights, an area where there’s a sudden drop in the legal speed limit to 35 miles per hour. City officials said that […]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today spoke with members of the media following a meeting with the South Carolina Hospital Association regarding the needs of South Carolina hospitals in a Phase IV stimulus package that may come before Congress. Ø GRAHAM: “This is a war between South Carolina, the country, and the virus. Most people fighting the war are […]
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 2,205 new confirmed cases and two new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, 23 additional confirmed deaths and no new probable deaths. There are currently 1,550 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19, and 203 of those patients are currently on ventilators. This brings the total […]
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Update: 14 year old Ronnie William Anderson, who was the subject of a missing juvenile press release earlier today, has been located in Greenville County by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office safe and has been turned over to his family. Original Story: The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a juvenile who was reported missing […]
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