Category: News

A new city building is going up in Westminster.  The contract to building a warehouse on Bibb Street has been awarded to J-Davis Construction, explains Westminster City Administrator David Smith. “The Council considered the five bids that we received for this project and for the warehouse that we will be building the Council did awarded the contract to J-Davis Construction […]

Congressman Jeff Duncan has invited another firearms company to relocate to South Carolina to avoid what he describes as an “anti-gun and anti-gun owner” climate coming from some state governments. On Tuesday, Duncan wrote Magpul’s COO, Doug Smith, to invite the company to consider moving its operations to South Carolina. Magpul Industries Corp., located in Erie, Colorado, has vowed to […]

It’s a case where no news isn’t good news. A CareerBuilder survey finds 75% of people who applied to jobs in the past year didn’t hear back from prospective employers. CareerBuilder’s Sanja Licini says the survey showed companies that do communicate with applicants have a better chance of finding interested candidates in the future. “Those organizations that are providing a […]

Millions of Americans, especially teenagers, suffer from acne, and now a new study shows it may indeed be linked to diet. Dietician Jennifer Burris and other researchers reviewed a host of scientific studies and found increasing evidence the skin problem is linked to foods high in carbohydrates. “We’ve shown that most of the evidence is on high glycemic load foods […]

Trans Union is out with its quarterly look at active credit card users in the United States. The study looks at some 27 million consumers and while it finds credit card delinquency in the fourth quarter of 2012 may be up from the fourth quarter in 2011, it is not a significant rise. It hit .85%, up from .75%. Ezra Becker […]

Two Seneca residents were arrested on Tuesday after a drug bust.  Seneca Police Chief John Covington reports that over the past week, an undercover operative was utilized to purchase crack cocaine from Qawi Aziz Kabir, former known as Michael Christian, on three separate occasions. Subsequently, agents were able to obtain arrest warrants for distribution of crack cocaine and a search […]

Clemson University Police charged a Seneca woman Tuesday in connection with two incidents that led to evacuations of Hendrix Student Center on campus.  Campus police charged 38-year-old Melissa Ann Griggs with two felony counts of making a bomb threat. She was served with the warrants at the Oconee County Detention Center, where she is being held on similar charges. Police […]

A local museum is attempting to go green, so they can save green.  The Oconee Heritage Center announces the “Let the Light Shine” campaign, which is an attempt to replace all the light bulbs in the museum with energy-efficient LED light bulbs.  Oconee Heritage Center curator and director Leslie White gives details.  “This is an on-going campaign.  A complaint we […]

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety announces four people were killed on state roads and highways from Friday, February 15, at 6pm until Sunday, February 17, at midnight. As of February 17, 69 people have died on South Carolina highways, compared to 99 highway deaths in this same time period in 2012.  Oconee County reports no deaths in 2013, […]