Category: News

(Seneca, SC)——————-The Walhalla Police Department has filed charges in their investigation into a fatal two vehicle accident that occurred Saturday afternoon around 2:30pm at the intersection of West South Broad Street and South Cedar Street. According to Walhalla Police Chief Sean Brinson, 29 year old Robert Alan Pelfrey has been charged with Felony DUI Resulting in Death, Driving Under Suspension […]

(Seneca, SC)——————————–U.S. Senator and Seneca native Lindsey Graham issued a press release late last week in support of President Trump’s veto in regards to the President’s national emergency declaration to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. In a separate statement, Graham said that there is an emergency on the border and that the President can use military construction […]

(Seneca, SC)———————-A Seneca man was arrested late last week on outstanding arrest warrants charging him with Domestic Violence and 2nd Degree Burglary. 25 year old Michael Alan Wilkes is accused in arrest warrants of breaking into a residence on Gallo Way near Seneca and assaulting a female inside back on November 21st of last year. Wilkes was booked into the […]

(Seneca, SC)———————A few weeks ago, The Blood Connection issued a plea for donors at the peak of cold and flu season since many donors who regularly donate blood could not due to being sick. Even though the peak of flu season has now past, the daily need for blood donors is great, as Monnie Whitson, who is the Community Relations […]

(Seneca, SC)—————————–We reported recently on a pursuit by a deputy from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office that lasted approximately 32 miles and 57 minutes and stretched from Oconee County into Pickens County before the pursuit ended in Anderson County with the arrest of 27 year old Michael Lee Sammons on multiple charges.  Upon activating his sirens, the deputy also activated […]

(Seneca, SC)————–As preparations continue for the all new Downtown Seneca Fest 2019 the Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend, individuals will come to downtown Seneca for the music, food, the movie at dusk on Friday evening and the laser show on Saturday evening as well as the vendors who will selling their wares, and there is hope that […]

(Seneca, SC)——————- If you have been traveling through portions of Pickens County today and noticed plenty of emergency vehicles in certain areas, Pickens County Emergency Management has been conducting a large scale disaster exercise. The exercise, which will conclude around 3pm today, began with a Tornado affecting Dacusville Middle School on Thomas Mill Road near Easley. The Pickens County School […]

(Seneca, SC)———The Seneca Police Department made an arrest of a Seneca man on outstanding drug distribution warrants. 51 year old Ronald Kelley Winchester currently remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center on a combined $30,000 surety bond. Kelley is accused is distributing a quantity of Methamphetamine to an undercover operative working at the direction of the Seneca Police […]

(Seneca, SC)———————–Two individuals remain in custody at this time on surety bonds at the Oconee County Detention Center after being charged with one count each of Attempted Murder. Early Wednesday evening, deputies were dispatched to BI-Lo Place near Seneca in regards to an assault that had occurred in which the victim had been stabbed. The victim was able to advise […]