Category: News

South Carolina recently passed legislation that will improve the integrity of the state’s unemployment insurance system.  The legislation (H.3751, Act 70), which imposes federally mandated integrity requirements, provides the following: a 25% penalty applied to a claimant’s fraudulent over payment, if an employer establishes a pattern of non-response and over payments result due to the non responses, then the employer’s […]

The aging U.S. population means more of us are caring for an elderly parent or relative. The Pew Research Center’s Susannah Fox says their survey found that nearly 40% of adults are acting as a caregiver, 86% of them have internet access and are avid users, but not for every task. “They are not necessarily using that technology to actually […]

Rescue efforts continue today for a missing rafter who fell into the Chattooga River during a commercial white water rafting tour on Wednesday. Oconee County Fire Chief Charlie King reports that search efforts will resume this morning with technical rescue teams. The man appeared to have been trapped in a rapid, as rescue guides tried unsuccessfully to save him on Wednesday. Technical rescue teams […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in a case of counterfeit bills, which were used to receive goods and cash at a store in West Union.  Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt gives details.  “25-year-old Kayla Marie Bryson of 320 West Railroad Street in West Union was arrested by deputies this afternoon and booked […]

During the recent meeting of the South Carolina Fire Chiefs Association, Oconee County was recognized for its efforts in Fire and Life Safety. The Oconee County Fire Department was presented with the 2013 Richard Campbell Award for Excellence in Public Fire Safety Education. Oconee County was one of two departments in South Carolina to be awarded, along with the City […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) made this statement in response to a new ad from Friends of the Earth, which calls for cutting off funding to the MOX fuel fabrication facility at Savannah River Site (SRS). Graham said, “Friends of the Earth is no friend to South Carolina.  The Department of Energy (DOE) made a commitment to South Carolina […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help regarding a larceny case that occurred at a business in the Seneca area.  Deputies responded to Jet Commercial on Wells Highway around 10am Tuesday morning to a reported grand larceny, explains Oconee County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Jimmy Watt.  “According to investigators, an individual told the deputy who responded […]

Dan Holland remembers how disconnected he felt when he arrived as a nervous freshman on the campus of Southern Wesleyan University in 1986.  The first-generation college student athlete had never been on a college campus and needed help in acclimating to an academic environment.  He says what could have been a dropout story turned into a rewarding college experience because […]

The American Medical Association is recognizing Obesity as a disease. Dr. Lou Arrone, director of a comprehensive weight control program, says that obese people need that recognition so they can get insurance-covered treatment.  “Diabetes, high blood pressure and even cancers are caused by Obesity and yet that treatment is excluded.” Treatment programs need to be implement to curb the escalating […]

A record number of people visited the City of Seneca’s website in May.  Spurred by the Charlie Daniels Band performing at Seneca Fest 2013, over 25,000 people visited the city’s website in May, explains Seneca Events Coordinator Riley Johnson.  “One thing that stands out to me more and more each and every month is the number of visits and unique […]