Category: News

The Oconee County Council would like public input regarding the future of Dyar Road Bridge, crossing the Norfolk Southern Rail Road. Staff of the Oconee County Roads and Bridges Department will collect information from the public from a web-based form and a public meeting at the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Station Conference Room, located at 940 Old Clemson Highway in Seneca. The […]

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are teaming up to promote National Severe Weather Preparedness Week, March 3-9.  This week encourages individuals, families, businesses and communities to know about severe weather risks, take action to prepare for them and encourage others to get prepared. Each year, many people are killed or seriously injured by tornadoes […]

The search is on for South Carolina’s outstanding senior volunteer. The Salute to Senior Service program sponsored by Home Instead, Inc., the franchisor of the Home Instead Senior Care network, honors the contributions of adults 65 and older who give at least 15 hours a month of volunteer service to their favorite causes. Nominations for outstanding senior volunteers will be accepted through […]

If the United Way of Oconee County does not currently fund your human service agency and you wish to do so for the 2013-14 fiscal year, there will be an important training meeting on Thursday, March 14.  The meeting is set for 10am at the United Way Center in downtown Seneca.  No other training will be held after this date […]

Stephens County authorities have an Oconee County woman in custody after a cross-state chase earlier this week. Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said the chase Monday night started in Oconee County on U.S. 123.  The high-speed chase ended on Hughes Road in Stephens County. The driver of the automobile fled on foot.  A K-9 unit was called into search and […]

Three Easley men will spend the next 46 to 175 months behind bars for operating an oxycodone conspiracy.  United States Attorney Bill Nettles announces 43-year-old Richard Silvers, 30-year-old Heath Cash and 27-year-old Gabriel Calderon were sentenced in federal court in Anderson for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Senior United States District Judge Ross Anderson, Jr. sentenced Silvers to […]

Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw is out with a new vision and mission statement which he’s requiring all of his employees to follow. The mission statement reads: “The men and women of the Sheriff’s Office are committed to making Oconee County a safer place to live, work, and play.” All members of the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office will employ effective […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Department is keeping open its investigation of sex allegations made against a 20-year-old man and, according to its spokesman, wants to talk to anyone who is aware of any other inappropriate conduct by him.  Earlier this week, deputies with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Adrian Caron of Seneca on three charges alleging criminal sexual conduct […]

The South Carolina Education Department has released the names of five finalists for state Teacher of the Year. The finalists were chosen from nominees representing 81 public school districts and other special school districts in the state. Lisa McCrea-Raiford is an elementary teacher at the Center of Innovating Learning at Pinecrest in Aiken County. Darleen Sutton is a first grade […]

In an attempt to save its wholesale contract, Seneca would be willing to negotiate a lower rate to the Pioneer Rural Water District. Bob Faires, Seneca utilities director, reacted today to a PRWD report favorable to the Oconee-Anderson water supplier building its first treatment plant. “Pioneer purchases water from both Seneca and Westminster and I think Westminster wouldn’t mind coming […]