Category: News

Seven of the eight candidates vying for four seats on the Seneca City Council squared off last night at forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Clemson Area.  A large crowd packed the Gignilliat Community Center to hear challengers suggest better ways to run city government and incumbents defended their records, which they believe demonstrate that the […]

An Oconee County man is back in South Carolina after his arrest in Tennessee.  Jason Mark Carter escaped from a South Carolina Department of Mental Health facility January 2. He was being detained by the Mental Health Department after the deaths of his mother and stepfather in Seneca in 2006.  A judge found Carter not guilty by reason of insanity […]

During a pre-trial hearing, the charge of murder was dismissed against one of two Oconee County defendants. Magistrate Will Derrick confirmed that, in a preliminary hearing Friday, he threw out the case of murder against Patrick Grant Covone, one of two men charged in the late December murder of Richard Alan Marszalek. Preliminary hearings are held by magistrates to assess […]

Residents filled seats last night in the meeting room of the Oconee Medical Center Board of Directors. Sister station WGOG reports that one month after a surprise announcement that the hospital is entertaining the idea of affiliating with a larger health care organization; several residents took advantage of a chance to weigh-in on the prospects for change. Specifically, many came […]

One of the projects being considered by the Oconee County Capital Project Sales Tax Commission is a new facility for the Foothills Area YMCA.  Currently, the YMCA at the Y Barn serves the residents of Oconee County, Clemson and Central.  The new facility under consideration would be built on 23 acres designated by Oconee Medical Center and include an aquatic […]

This November is a mid-term election meaning it does not have a Presidential Race; however, this coming election could have a major impact on the presidency, says Clemson University Political Science Professor Dr. Joseph Stewart.  “The last Presidential Election was the last in which President Obama will run for office and we saw that on some of the talk shows […]

Today, State Representative Bill Sandifer officially announced that he would seek re-election to the South Carolina House or Representatives for District 2 this November. Sandifer said, “During the holidays between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I did what I believe all of us should do, I took an inventory of myself, where I am and where I want to go with my […]

If you are filling up at the gas pump, be prepared to pay up. The Lundberg Survey reports the price of a gallon of regular is up over the past two weeks. Here is survey publisher Trilby Lundberg.  “Gasoline prices have jumped up twelve cents in the past two weeks, the price is now $3.41.” Lundberg tells why there is […]

A survey of 230 of the nation’s leading economists finds wide disagreement on most fiscal issues with the principal exception being monetary policy. Jack Kleinhenz, President of the National Association for Business Economics, which conducted the survey, tells that the survey also sampled opinions on the Affordable Care Act.  “We have really no consensus to the extent of the impact.  […]

132 of Oconee Counties’ greatest generation will be honored this Saturday at 2pm at the Gignilliat Community Center in Seneca, just off Highway 123.  Oconee County Veterans Affairs Director Jerry Dyar and his staff are providing, perhaps for the last time, an opportunity for Oconee County and her citizens to say a “collective thank you” to these great men and women.  Dyar […]