Category: News

The South Carolina Bobwhite Initiative is happy to announce that the USDA Farm Service recently released the availability for the long-awaited CRP Tree Thinning Incentive. The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a wildly successful program that is administered by the USDA Farm Service Agency. It has been in existence since the 1985 Farm Bill. The original intent of CRP was […]

Thirteenth Circuit Solicitor Walt Wilkins states that 45-year-old Charles Frances Essing, III, pled guilty on Dec. 15, 2016, on two counts each of burglary of a building in the second degree and burglary of a dwelling in the second degree. The Honorable C. Victor Pyle, Jr., sentenced Essing to consecutive sentences totaling 21 years in the South Carolina Department of […]

If you plan on taking classes next year at Tri-County Technical College (TCTC) today is the admissions deadline, tells Katie Beson, orientation coordinator at TCTC. “All of your admissions documents are going to be required by the close of business, so by 6:30pm on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. That includes your application, your application fee, your placement testing, and then […]

SC Works and Tri-County Technical College’s (TCTC) Corporate and Community Education Division (CCE) are reaching out to unemployed and underemployed individuals by hosting a Job Fair in January. The event will be held for Anderson, Oconee and Pickens counties residents Friday, Jan. 6, from 9am to noon at the Industrial and Business Development Center located on the Pendleton Campus. Participants […]

South Carolina’s nine presidential electors cast their ballots for Republican Donald Trump. The Associated Press reports that the vote happened during a meeting Monday in Columbia. Electors were required by state law to vote for Trump, who overwhelmingly carried South Carolina in November’s general election. Protesters gathered Monday at state capitols around the country calling on electors not to back […]

A former deputy with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office stands charged with using his credentials to forge documents in order to purchase a truck. The State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) reports that 30-year-old Jake Pelfrey was arrested Monday and charged with forgery, perjury and misconduct in office. Authorities say Pelfrey used his law enforcement credentials to access state records and […]

Tri-County Technical College (TCTC) will be closed for the holidays Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, through Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. The College will reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. Important dates and deadlines for Spring Semester can be found on the College’s website at www.tctc.edu by clicking on the Academic Calendar.

At the last Seneca City Council meeting a request was brought before council about having a New Year’s Eve event on Ram Cat Alley. Because of the late request, that the request was an additional event that was not budgeted, and a short time frame for preparation and manpower, the Seneca City Council’s consensus was to not have the event […]

The Oconee County Public Library (OCPL) will be closed for the Christmas holiday from Friday, Dec. 23, through Tuesday, Dec. 27. The Seneca Branch will close at 6pm on Thursday, Dec. 22. The library will also be closed Saturday, Dec. 31, through Monday, Jan. 2, for New Year’s. All branches reopen their normal hours on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. During […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Westminster man and booked him into the Oconee County Detention Center early Monday morning on charges of attempting to purchase Pseudoephedrine above the legal limit. “48-year-old Thomas Lee Lanning of Johnny Cox Road was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 1:17am by a deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division. An agent […]