Category: News

Believing it too late to prevent the looming $85 billion in immediate federal budget cutbacks, Senator Lindsay Graham is now urging his colleagues to reach a long-term deal that will address the deficit. Appearing on CNN Monday, Graham agreed with anchor Wolf Blitzer that such a deal was unlikely before sequestration happens on March 1. “No, so sequestration’s going to […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made the following statement on his opposition to Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. “I oppose the nomination of Chuck Hagel to serve as our next Secretary of Defense.  The position of Secretary of Defense is one of the most important jobs in our government.  There were other, more capable choices available and […]

Seneca High School agricultural education students attended the SC FFA-sponsored State Legislators Appreciation Ceremony in Columbia on February 20. The students, accompanied by Christina Alexander, agricultural education instructor and FFA adviser at Seneca High School, and Jessica Brown, current student teacher, began the day by visiting with State Senator Thomas Alexander to thank him for his support of Agricultural Education. […]

Senior Lady Bobcat Cierra Boggs has been chosen by Ralph’s Trophy Shop as Seneca High School’s Student Athlete of the Month for January.  Cierra played for the Varsity Women’s Basketball Team for Coach Jimmy Towe.  Coach Towe said, “Cierra is one of the most passionate athletes I’ve ever coached.  Whatever she does, she does it with tremendous passion.  She is […]

Grab your hat! Come read with the Cat! Come celebrate the birth of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel, and Read across America Day at the Seneca and Westminster Branch Libraries on Friday, March 1 at 4pm.  The libraries will offer green eggs (pudding) and games at the children’s event, which is being held simultaneously at the Westminster and Seneca […]

Greenville novelist Matt Matthews will discuss his award-winning Southern coming-of-age book, “Mercy Creek” on March 6, at Tri-County Technical College. The event, which is sponsored by the College’s Enrichment Series Committee, will be held from 1:20 to 2:20pm in the Marshall Parker Auditorium on the College’s Pendleton Campus.  It is free and open to the public. “Mercy Creek” tells the […]

One of civilization’s most ancient occupations is hoeing a new row in the digital age. Farmers for centuries checked their crops by picking up handfuls of soil, walking fields looking for insects or disease and watching the weather. Today, Clemson University researchers are working to create the Intelligent Farm. It will use computers, satellites, field sensors and cell towers to provide […]

For the third year in a row, Clemson University has been named a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation and Toyota. Initiated in 2008, Tree Campus USA is a program that awards colleges and universities for campus forest management and involving students and faculty in conservation efforts. Clemson was awarded this honor for meeting the five standards set […]

A new survey from CareerBuilder.com finds that more Americans may be spending their “golden years” at the office.  The survey found 60% of workers say they will be looking for another job after they retire from their present company. That is up from 57% last year. CareerBuilder’s Michael Erwin says some Americans do not think they will ever stop working.  […]

A large crowd gathered at West-Oak Middle School for the fifth annual State of Oconee Luncheon on Friday.  This yearly event, hosted by the Walhalla, Westminster and Oconee County Chambers of Commerce, is an opportunity for networking, planning and conversing about the county’s future, explains Oconee County Chamber interim executive director Billy Boylston.  “It was a great event; we had […]