Category: News

Make Christmas special this year for a needy child in Oconee County. Once again, the City of Seneca is collecting toys and clothing for Celebrate Christmas with a Hero. Items may be dropped off at Seneca City Hall now through Dec. 15, explains Seneca Events Coordinator Riley Johnson. “At City Hall the tables are out. I had a chance to […]

The City of Seneca as well as Seneca Light and Water will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 27 and Friday, Nov. 28 for Thanksgiving. The Sanitation Department will continue their normal scheduled hours. For your convenience, the Seneca Light and Water Night Deposit will remain open 24 hours for payments. In case of an emergency, call 885-2723 for assistance.

Students at all Oconee County public schools will be dismissed starting at 11:45am for elementary students and noon for middle and high students once per month on Wednesdays to allow for faculty and staff professional development. The next early release day in the School District of Oconee County is scheduled for Nov. 19, 2014.

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds about eight in ten Americans feel they have lost control of their personal information. Mary Madden is a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “There is an overwhelming sense that consumers have lost control over the way their personal information is collected and used by […]

More than 125 participants attended last weekend’s 54-hour event where developers, designers, marketers and product managers came together to launch startups. Participants who developed startups during the event had the opportunity to collaborate with like-minded individuals outside of their normal sphere of influence. The student organization Clemson IDEAS sponsored the event in partnership with the College of Business and Behavioral […]

The South Carolina Department of Education released letter grades for the state’s public schools based upon student achievement and improvement during the 2013-2014 school year. Pickens County’s only charter school, the Youth Leadership Academy, received an “A,” based on a perfect score of 100. The Youth Leadership Academy received its charter from the South Carolina Public Charter School District and […]

Are we changing our passwords often enough and making them complex, so hackers cannot get all our secrets? An information-systems organization with over 110,000 members worldwide warns that we are not, based on a survey done by that group, ISACA. Rob Clyde is a vice-president of that group. “They feel like because they are using the right kind of credit […]

The morning after Thanksgiving has become an unofficial holiday, a time for families to wake early, sit in traffic, compete with other drivers for decent parking spots, jostle with crowds and stand in line to buy things probably no one asked for or really want, but if there’s anything good to say about Black Friday it’s that it leads to […]

Tri-County Technical College’s annual fall choir concert, set for Nov. 21, will include the premier of an instrumental ensemble. The chorus, along with members of a new band class, will present their Fall Concert at 7pm in the Marshall Parker Auditorium on the Pendleton Campus. The performance is free and open to the public. Under the direction of conductor and […]

The World of Energy will host its second annual Festival of Trees beginning Nov. 24 through Jan. 3. Nearly two dozen trees will be on display, decorated by local businesses and organizations for the public to view. Tree viewing can take place Monday through Friday from 9am to 5pm and Saturdays from noon to 5pm at the World of Energy […]