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The Seneca City Council will hold a Work Session and a Special Called Council Meeting on Tuesday, February 25, at 6:00 pm in the Council Chambers at City Hall. Items on the agenda include an ordinance to establish operating hours for the Parks and Recreation Facilities, a couple of land purchases, one dealing with Seneca Light & Water. The Council […]

Pickens County Solicitor Walt Wilkins said that 37-year old Jason Riley Galloway received his sentenced late last week in Pickens General Sessions Court. According to Wilkins, between January 2016 and August 2017, Galloway sexually assaulted two children, then ages three and six, at his Pickens County residence. Judge Miller sentenced Galloway to 45 years in prison.

According to arrest records from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, Deputies arrested 36 year-old Stacie Lee Galloway on Saturday and charged her with Possession of Meth or Cocaine and Possession of a Schedule I Controlled Substance. She remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center pending $15,000 bond. On Friday, Oconee County Deputies arrested Kelly Ann Cantrell, age 37, […]

South Carolina’s Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is going to make a quick stop by Piedmont Women’s Center in Greenville at 1:00 pm this afternoon. He will talk about legislation he introduced — the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act — which will be voted on Tuesday in the U. S. Senate. Senator Graham spoke in the Senate about the bill, […]

Seneca High School graduating senior Tucker Ann Norris has been named one of more than 4500 candidates in the 2020 US Presidential Scholars Program, one of the highest honors bestowed upon graduating high school seniors. Candidates were selected from more than 3.6 million students expected to graduate this year, and are chosen on the basis of superior academic and artistic […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Zachary Jordan Vanwingerden, age 25 of Greenville, after an investigation into the theft of a stolen vehicle and dog that occurred early Saturday morning. Vanwingerden turned himself in, according to authorities, and was charged with one count each of Grand Larceny and Stealing Dogs. He was given a combined $15,000 bond, and released on […]

New life is coming to Seneca’s Historic District, that is, if the City’s Board of Architectural Review approves the plans of a couple of restaurateur’s. Hearings begin at 6:00 pm tonight at City Hall for a proposed pizza restaurant at 403 East Main Street, and the owner of the property at 123 North Townville plan to open a Mayberry’s restaurant. […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office assisted the US Marshals service with the apprehension of a fugitive from the state of North Carolina over the weekend. 29 year-old Douglas Aaron Holcomb, was located in the Timberlake One subdivision near Townville in Oconee County. When Deputies arrived on scene Saturday morning, they found that Holcolmb had apparently barricaded himself inside the residence. […]