Category: News

Committee members will get a chance to see first hand the condition of boat landings on Lake Hartwell in Oconee County.  Members of the Oconee County Real Estate, Facilities and Land Management Committee will tour with county staff  the Army Corps of Engineers boat landings on Lake Hartwell on Monday, October 7.  They will meet staff at the Oconee County Offices, […]

A historical moment will happen this Thursday night and everyone is invited to attend Jazz on the Alley in downtown Seneca. All five mayors from Oconee County will be at the free event to sign a proclamation designating October 2013 as “The Spirit of Safe Harbor”.   Seneca Mayor Dan Alexander gives details.  “We are doing a big celebration, we feel […]

City of Seneca employee Donna Bradley and her husband Bob just returned from the Hyperflite Skyhoundz World Championship in Chattanooga, TN. Donna and one of their dogs, Abbey Moose, captured the title of 2013 Women’s Microdog Xtreme Distance World Champion.  Abbey Moose, along with Hyzer and Smoke had qualified for the championship earlier this year at events held in Spring […]

Stanley “Shawn” Davis pled guilty today in Anderson General Sessions Court to the murder of his mother in January of this year. The Honorable Lawton McIntosh sentenced Davis to 30 years in prison.  On January 1, 2013, deputies were dispatched to the residence of Debra and Stanley Davis in the Wren community following a call from a neighbor. Mrs. Davis […]

Oconee County Emergency Services in conjunction with the Seneca Fire Department and South Carolina Fire and Life Safety Association will hold a live side-by-side burn at noon on Saturday at Home Depot in Seneca. Each year fires in residences take a high toll on life and property with approximately 362,100 residential building fires, 2,555 civilian fire deaths, 13,275 civilian fire […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will be participating this Saturday in the “Home Depot Safety Day” at the Home Depot location on Highway 123 at Sheep Farm Road in Seneca. The event will last from 9am until noon.  The Safety Day is held the first Saturday in October at the Seneca Home Depot location.  It is free and open to […]

Anyone who has been a caregiver or a parent to a child with Down Syndrome or Autism or someone with a form of Dementia, including Alzheimer’s, knows how difficult it can be to provide care to their loved ones, especially in those cases when individuals must be watched 24 hours a day or can very easily leave when one least […]

Leaf pick-up is scheduled to begin this month in the City of Clemson.  The City’s Department of Public Works uses a leaf vacuum truck to remove leaves in the fall and winter months.  The city service operates through the end of February 2014 or as determined by the supervisor.  During leaf season, the City of Clemson asks residents to follow […]

The Clemson University Experimental Forest will be able to sell its harvested timber in a wider range of green construction markets after its forest management practices were certified to be sustainable by a third-party group of experts. The forest’s 17,500 acres are among 103,000 acres of South Carolina timberland to be certified sustainable through a years-long process overseen by the Sustainable […]

Several thousand federal employees in South Carolina are being forced to stay home due to the government shutdown. Data from the Office of Personal Management show that there are over 22,000 federal employees in South Carolina. A large majority, but not all, will be affected. Active-duty military personnel and civilian employees needed to support essential military operations at Fort Jackson and Shaw […]