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Seneca’s City Council will meet tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm at City Hall to discuss several items, including the replacement of three garbage trucks that were recently destroyed in an accidental fire at the city’s public works facility. Mayor Dan Alexander said that the city was lucky, and he commended the job done by everyone to keep the city’s sanitation […]

According to jail records, 42 year-old Brian Kenneth McLellan of Seneca was arrested this past Thursday evening by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office on four counts of shoplifting. He remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center pending $20,000 bond.

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 […]