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Anderson County deputies need help finding Samantha Lynn Powell. She was last seen leaving TTI on May 8th at 3:00am. She was last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, possibly a gray hat. She drives a 2002 Toyota Tacoma with SC tag NHY646. If you see Samantha Lynn Powell or have information regarding her whereabouts, please call the […]

The National Weather Service said that there is an increased fire danger this afternoon through this evening for our area. Gusty winds and low relative humidity will develop this afternoon. Fuels will dry out quickly, they said, and that will create ripe conditions for an increased risk of wildfires today. You can refer to your local burn permitting authorities as […]

COLUMBIA, S.C. – In order to address ongoing workforce shortages throughout South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster today directed the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) to terminate South Carolina’s participation in all federal, pandemic-related unemployment benefit programs, effective June 30, 2021. Governor McMaster directed the agency to take the action in a letter to DEW Executive Director Dan Ellzey. “South Carolina’s […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help today in locating a missing Walhalla teenager. Investigators are seeking the whereabouts of 13 year old Ariel Ray Underwood. Ariel left her home on Goat Road sometime between 10pm on May 4th and 7am on May 5th. Family members reported Arial missing to the Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday morning. The […]

Clemson University College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences is conducting an online community survey about the Opportunity Zone in Seneca’s Utica Mill neighborhood. The survey aims to understand the community’s needs, priorities and opinions for future economic growth and development in the designated Mill Hill Opportunity Zone. If you would like to take part in the short survey, you […]

Seneca High School’s Class of 2021 will be treated to a night under the stars on Friday evening. For the second year in a row, local businesses and the community are banding together so the seniors can have Prom on the Alley. The annual dance in the street begins at 7:00 pm Friday night.

An after-school accident in the Ebenezer Community near Ebenezer Baptist Church injured three Walhalla High School students yesterday. Walhalla High School’s Principal Steve Garrett said that, while one of the students was treated and released from Prisma Health Oconee, the other two were flown to Greenville, where they are listed in critical condition… Master Trooper Brandon Bolt of the South […]

You’ll recall that we told you about the arrest late last week of 34 year old Christopher Nathan Stephens from Whittier, NC by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office. Stephens was charged with three counts of Safecracking in regards to the break-in and opening of money lock boxes, with the intent to commit a larceny, at two Oconee County owned recreation […]

Gary Garland, Shannon Garland, Johnnie Wells, Michael Skelton, and Duwone Allen, all of Anderson, were arrested on a multi-count federal indictment charging violations of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and production of child pornography back in August, according to a press release from the US Attorney’s Office, and now, a former Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputy has been […]