Category: News

(Seneca, SC)————–Clemson City Council will have their regularly scheduled meeting tonight at 6:30pm in Council Chambers at City Hall.  Before tonight’s meeting, City Council will have a public hearing beginning at 6pm regarding the Fiscal Year 2019-2020 budget. In fact, Council will have the second reading on the budget during tonight’s meeting.  Clemson Mayor J.C. Cook was a guest on […]

(Seneca, SC)——–The School District of Oconee County Board of Trustees will have their Regular Board Meeting tonight in the School Board Conference Room on South Pine Street at 6pm.  Among the items on the agenda will be first reading approval of policies in regards to tobacco use by students and a tobacco free school district, schools and staff as well […]

(Seneca, SC)——–The Seneca Police Department issued a press release late last week announcing an arrest in regards to an investigation into some recent auto break-ins and thefts.  The auto break-ins occurred primarily in the south side of the city around S. Depot Street, Hillcrest Drive and the surrounding area.  Seneca PD announced the arrest of 22 year old Kenneth Charles […]

(Seneca, SC)——————Last Friday morning, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Foundation presented a check in the amount of $250 to Deputy Chris Johnson, who was awarded the JP Strom award upon his recent graduation from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy.  The JP Strom award is given to the Academy graduate with the highest academic average in that particular graduating class.  After […]

(Seneca, SC)———–The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to seek the public’s help today in their search for a Six Mile man wanted on charges of Attempted Murder and Possession of a Weapon During Commission of a Violent Crime.  39 year old Boyce Derek Lowrance is accused in arrest warrants of cutting the neck of his ex-girlfriend with a knife […]

(Seneca, SC)——-An Open House will be held tomorrow in Walhalla from 9am until 1pm for Christ Central Ministries’ new Oconee Resource and Solution Center, which will be housed in the old Oconee County Detention Center.  It has been around 2 years since Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw announced his vision, in concert with Christ Central Ministries, for a pilot program […]

(Seneca, SC)—-On Tuesday of this week, U.S. Senator and Seneca native Lindsey Graham led a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding legislation he has introduced in relation to the current asylum laws, which is called The Secure and Protect Act of 2019. During the hearing, Acting Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan testified.  Senator Graham said […]

(Seneca, SC)——Oconee Federal Savings and Loan has achieved another Superior 5-star rating from BauerFinancial, the Nation’s Premier Bank Rating Firm, according to a release from that organization.  Oconee Federal, according to the release, has earned Bauer’s Top 5 Star Rating continuously for over 25 years, which allows the bank to have the added distinction of being a “Best of Bauer […]

(Seneca, SC)—-Today is World Blood Donor Day 2019 and the Blood Connection is joining organizations in the US and around the world to acknowledge the constant need for blood and to celebrate blood donors who give.  The Blood Connection will be holding events today at five different Blood Connection locations, including their facilities at 1954 East Main Street in Easley […]

(Seneca, SC)——–The Anderson County Coroner’s Office has identified and released the name of the victim in an accident that occurred in Honea Path yesterday involving a city sanitation vehicle versus a pedestrian.  The victim has been identified as 49 year old Richard Ernest Smith of Honea Path, who is an employee with the city of Honea Path Sanitation Department.  According […]