Category: News

McDonald’s in Seneca will donate $1 to the SHS Athletics Department for every car that goes through the drive-thru this Friday, November 8 from 7am until 8am.  Seneca High School Athletics Director Duke Lee encourages the community to help support student athletes by taking advantage of the one-hour fundraiser this Friday.

Seneca High School FFA members Candace Gibby, Lucas Watts, Parker Scruggs, K’Yundra Martin, Brittany Shook, Samantha Sanders, Alexis Moore, Christa Addis, and Emmalee Rawlings along with agriculture teacher and FFA advisor, Christina Alexander, traveled to Louisville, Kentucky for the 86th Annual National FFA Convention on October 30th through November 2nd. The National FFA Convention is held each October.  This year’s attendance exceeded […]

An international plastic blow molding and injection molding company is expanding its existing facility in Anderson County. Mergon Corporation, which specializes in supplying solutions and products to the automotive, industrial and healthcare markets, announces that it will invest $4.4 million to expand its existing manufacturing facility in Anderson County, generating 22 new jobs in the area. Mergon Corporation’s U.S. manufacturing […]

With funding approved and contractors selected, the City of Seneca was to begin renovating the former JN Kellett School on Monday; however, community complaints received over the weekend have postponed the project.  The residents of Adams Subdivision say they were given no notification of this construction activity until one week before planned construction when plans were posted on the City […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man Wednesday morning that was being sought on four separate counts.  The Sheriff’s Office issued a press release on Tuesday asking for the public’s help in locating 21-year-old Keith Antwane Jackson of Seneca on two charges of breaking into automobiles and two charges of petty larceny from two separate incidents that occurred […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office assisted the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in the capture of a man wanted on a fugitive from justice charge in the state of Georgia. 33-year-old Joshua Pruitt was arrested in Fair Play.  He was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center and then released to law enforcement from Barrow County, Georgia.  According to U.S. […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has made a second arrest in regards to a meth lab that was discovered in October in the Bountyland Community.  32-year-old Timothy Joseph Myers of Seneca was arrested on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine.  Myers was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center and his bond was set at $45,000.  The warrant states that Myers “possessed […]

An Oconee County Road Patrol Deputy made an arrest of a Westminster area man during the lunch hour last Wednesday during routine road patrol operations.  Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt gives details.  “According to the incident report, an officer was traveling on Highway 123 when he noticed a white in color motorcycle, a 2007 Harley Davidson, […]

Voting ran smoothly yesterday in Oconee County, according to voter registration and elections director Joy Brooks.  “Things went really well.  A little low on the turnout but there were no issues with the new photo ID, everything ran smoothly.” Brooks thanked her staff and all the volunteer poll workers for their efforts yesterday.  “Can’t say enough good about our poll […]

A new development to make as much as a $10 million investment in Seneca by locating on property adjacent to the new Hampton Inn and Suites was announced by Seneca’s Greg Dietterick during last night’s meeting of the Oconee County Council. The city administrator used the agenda spot for extended public comment to extol the partnership and cooperation between the […]