Category: News

The City of Seneca invites the community to join them in celebrating the Grand Opening of the Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum and the city’s fourth annual Black History Luncheon. The Grand Opening celebration begins at 11:30am on Feb. 12 with lunch at the Gignilliat Community Center. Following lunch, attendees move to the museum to tour the new exhibit, The […]

On Monday, Jan. 25, Hutch-N-Son Construction finished most of the curb work on the south side of downtown Walhalla as part of the city’s Streetscape Project. Crews are now waiting on AT&T to remove a pole between Spring and Ann streets, so Hutch-N-Son can finish one short section of curb work. Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, Hutch-N-Son hopes to work on […]

Due to the winter weather, the Miss Seneconian Pageant had to be postponed and the new date is this Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7pm. It takes place in the Hamilton Auditorium of Seneca High School.

An 80-year-old Westminster man died Monday morning, Jan. 25, at Greenville Memorial Hospital from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle collision that occurred in Oconee County 10 days earlier. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis reports that Samuel Haley was the restrained driver of one of the vehicles. The collision occurred at 8:10am on Saturday, Jan. 16, at the intersection of South […]

The seventh annual Tri-County Technical College FLL Regional Qualifying Tournament has been rescheduled for Saturday, Jan. 30, from 8am to 3pm. It takes place in the Marshall J. Parker Auditorium of Oconee Hall on the Pendleton Campus. Tri-County Technical College’s Engineering and Industrial Technology Division host the regional qualifying tournament and it was made possible through a generous donation from […]

The VFW recently sponsored a nationwide essay contest called “Patriot’s Pen”. The theme for this year’s essay was “What Freedom Means to Me.” Heather Beasley and Luke Smith, eighth graders at West-Oak Middle School, were named the first and second place winners of the local level contest from the VFW Auxiliary. The nation-wide contest is open to all students. It […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man and a Liberty woman Sunday evening on outstanding warrants charging both with one count each of breach of trust with fraudulent intent. Deputies responded to an address on Goddard Avenue on the Utica Mill Hill regarding a complaint. The victim told deputies that she had allowed 29-year-old Joseph Coy Kilby and […]

With the safety of students and staff in mind, administrators with the School District of Oconee County wake up around 4am in the winter to check roads. “There is a team of four or five individuals that ride different routes in the county. We do not ride every road in the county but we ride in every area of the […]

Duke Energy has hired a contractor to trim trees near both Walhalla and West Union. The tree trimming takes place in the areas served by Duke Energy’s Branch Road substation. The work begins later this month and is scheduled to be completed by the end of March.