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Wanting to place businesses in empty downtown buildings, Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander plans to introduce an economic incentive package to the city council at their work session meeting next week. “We have been working very closely with the Oconee Economic Alliance, Janet Hartman and Richard Blackwell. I know they have been working closely with the other cities too. Along with […]
Read moreThe South Carolina Education Lottery’s (SCEL) Board of Commissioners Tuesday directed staff to take all appropriate measures under SCEL’s contract with the vendor, Intralot, to learn what happened on Dec. 25, 2017, with the Holiday Cash Add –A- Play game. Lottery staff previously engaged Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) to investigate any and all aspects of the Holiday Cash Add-A-Play game […]
Read moreMothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) has released the 2018 Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving Report to the Nation, which rates every state’s drunk driving laws and highlights drunk driving countermeasures related to MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving. The report explains MADD’s vision to literally eliminate drunk driving in America. The state rating of drunk driving reform efforts placed South […]
Read moreSouth Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is set to deliver his first State of the State address tonight, reports The Associated Press. The Republican’s initial address will be broadcast at 7pm, Jan. 24, on South Carolina ETV. McMaster’s speech was scheduled for last week but was postponed due to winter weather.
Read moreClemson University’s Spiro Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership will sponsor the nationally recognized 3 Day Startup weekend Feb. 2–4. Registration is free and open to Clemson students, faculty and alumni. The application deadline is Friday, Jan. 26. The 3 Day Startup is a 48-hour, learning-by-doing campus program that teaches entrepreneurial skills in an extreme hands-on environment. Learn more at www.clemson.edu.
Read moreAuthors Ron Rash, Drew Lanham, Nic Brown and Jim Melvin will be joined by astronomer Amber Porter from 1-3pm, today, Jan. 24, at the Barnes and Noble in the Hendrix Student Center at Clemson University to talk with readers and sign copies of “Eclipse Over Clemson: The day Tigertown will never forget.” Rash wrote a poem specifically for the book. […]
Read moreIn 2017, more than 500 organs were transplanted saving 400 lives in South Carolina. However, Donate Life South Carolina reports there are still over 1,000 people in the state currently in need of an organ transplant. Kidneys are the organ most in need in South Carolina followed by the Heart and Lungs. One organ donor has the potential to save […]
Read moreUnited States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that 40-year-old Delmar Deshion Jackson of Greenville was sentenced, in federal court in Greenville, for six armed robberies. United States District Judge Henry M. Herlong, of Greenville, varied upward from the sentence recommendation of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Manual to sentence Jackson to 149 months imprisonment and three years of supervised release. […]
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94.1 The Lake, WSNW announces the Chick-fil-A of Seneca Senior Living Expo will be held on Thursday, May 24, at the Shaver Recreation Center in Seneca from 9am to 1pm. Last year, over 70 vendors participated with around 700 attendees from all over the Upstate and Northeast Georgia. To learn more about becoming a vendor, call 864-882-WSNW or 882-9769.
Read moreThe unemployment rate in South Carolina rose slightly in December according to a new report from the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW). The December jobless rate was 4.1%, which is one-tenth of one percentage point higher than the 4% posted in November. “While businesses continue to add jobs at a record pace, which is cause for celebration, […]
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