Category: News

The City of Walhalla announces part of North College Street near the Police Department is closed today for the installation of a sewer tie-in as part of the City’s Streetscape project. On Thursday, Hutch ‘N Son Construction in cooperation with Duke Energy, removed five old light poles between Catherine and Spring Street.

Clemson University Cooperative Extension and 12 partners have a plan to clean up the pollutants in the Twelve Mile, Eighteen Mile and Golden Creek watersheds, which comprise more than 53,000 acres in the Piedmont of South Carolina. These waterways, used by industry, landowners and recreation enthusiasts, wind through Pickens County and a portion of Anderson County. Clemson University Extension Agent […]

Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander gave six classes of second graders along with teachers and chaperones from Northside Elementary School a tour of City Hall Friday morning. “175 young kids were able to visit City Hall and I talked to them about city government. They sat in our seats as elected officials for the City of Seneca and I answered lots […]

A lawsuit has been filed alleging school leaders in Oconee County violated the civil rights of Tamassee-Salem residents when they decided to close the middle and high School. Sister station WGOG reports that the plaintiff, Lynne Martin of Tamassee seeks a judgment to keep the school open. Named as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Oconee Common Pleas […]

A man stands charged with burglarizing Tamassee-Salem Middle and High School. The Salem Police Department reports that, with the help of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, 20-year-old Randal Ramey of Salem was arrested Wednesday. Police say the charges against him are burglary in the second degree, petty larceny and malicious damage to property. Around 9:30pm Monday, police allege that Ramey […]

On Oct. 23, deputies with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested 33-year-old Ernest Lee Smalley, Jr. of Seneca on a Family Court Bench Warrant. “Mr. Smalley, Jr. was in a holding cell at the Detention Center when he was discovered by Correctional Officers to be unconscious and unresponsive Monday afternoon,” says Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw. “The facility nurse and […]

A pickup truck crashed through the back of a Seneca insurance office Thursday afternoon. No one was injured, as three people inside SHK and Associates were fortunate to escape the crash. The accident resulted when the driver of the pickup truck suffered a medical situation causing the truck to roll from Mill Road, pushing down a fence, going across a […]

Change your clocks before going to bed this Saturday night as Daylight Saving Time ends at 2am Sunday, Nov. 1. This is the official start of shorter days as we fall back an hour. Firefighters encourage making it a tradition to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors as well as the time on your clocks.

The City of Seneca concludes another successful season of Jazz on the Alley tonight, explains Mayor Dan Alexander. “It is going to be a great night. It is hard to believe we are at the end of the year already, so this is the final night of Jazz on the Alley for this year with Stone Echo, a home based […]

Registration begins on Monday, Nov. 2 for the 22nd Annual Holiday Parade through downtown Clemson. The parade itself takes place on Dec. 1 at 6pm with pre-parade festivities starting at 5pm. The annual float contest includes a special guest judge this year in Clemson University Head Baseball Coach Monte Lee. Attendees also get a chance to have photos with Santa […]