Category: News

Today, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) learned that drunk driving fatalities once again topped 10,000 in 2013. Announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), drunk driving fatalities decreased from 10,322 in 2012 to 10,076 in 2013. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also announced that overall traffic fatalities decreased from 33,561 in 2012 to 32,719 in 2013, with […]

As part of its College and Career Readiness initiative, the Seneca High School Guidance Office has established a Professional Alumni Wall. The goal is to get as many alumni as possible to participate in this project with as many professions represented as possible, explains Seneca High School Guidance Director Karen Trammell. “What we are trying to do is depict as […]

This past Saturday night, Seneca High School crowned a new Miss Seneconian. Congratulations to these Miss Seneconian Pageant Winners Miss Freshmen Aila Raines, Miss Sophomore Anna McCall Mimms, Miss Junior Savannah Shope and Miss Senior Julia Elder. This year’s Miss Congeniality was Elizabeth Walden and the crown of 2014 Miss Seneconian went to Bailee Hawkins.

Recent press releases from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office might have you thinking that shopliftings are on the rise in the Golden Corner. They are actually down, but thanks to new surveillance, they are drawing more attention this year from authorities, explains Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt. “Shoplifting is one of those things that happens throughout […]

If a new career is on your Christmas list this year, look no further than the School District of Oconee County. Earnestine Williams, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources for the School District of Oconee County, says this is recruitment season for schools. “We are still looking for bus drivers and custodians. It is also recruitment season for us as far […]

As 2014 ticks down, the number of fatal traffic accidents in the tri-county area of Upstate South Carolina is on the rise. Oconee County lists 12 in 2014 compared to three in 2013. Pickens County lists 10 highway fatalities in 2014 and 14 in 2013. Anderson County has experienced 43 traffic deaths in 2014 compared to 33 in 2013. The […]

The director of Clemson University’s youth outreach program has been selected as the new director of South Carolina’s Department of Social Services. Gov. Nikki Haley picked Susan Alford to lead the agency tasked with child services and public family benefits. Alford has led the Girls Center, part of the Youth Learning Institute outreach program at Clemson University, since 2007. Prior […]

Clemson University alumnus Ron Taylor has pledged $100,000 to the school’s Emerging Scholars program to establish the Captain Byron Wiley Emerging Scholars Memorial Endowment, along with annual support for the program. The Emerging Scholars program identifies and offers high school students from counties with limited socio-economic resources opportunities to become familiar with and experience college life so they may attain […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has been appointed to continue his service on four powerful committees in the new Republican-controlled Senate, which will convene next month. Graham’s committee assignments for the 114th Congress will be to Armed Services, Appropriations, Judiciary and Budget. “This combination of committees will prove very beneficial to our state and give me the opportunity to […]

A Pendleton teen sits behind bars charged with abusing a 6-week-old child. Deputies with the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office arrested 18-year-old Austin Griffitt on a warrant for abuse to inflict great bodily injury upon a child. On Dec. 7, deputies were called to a store on Highway 187 where a baby was not breathing. The incident report said the child […]