Category: News

(Seneca, SC)————————The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office has announced that an inmate who escaped from the Pickens County Detention Center this past weekend was captured yesterday at a residence in Liberty.  45 year old Steven Leroy Aiken escaped after a perimeter door was opened in order to bring laundry into the facility back on Sunday, according to Chief Deputy Creed Hashe. […]

(Seneca, SC)———————–A busy month for the Oconee History Museum continues this week with a free event tonight at 6pm at the Museum that discusses natural and man made disasters in the history of Oconee County along with a presentation by Oconee County’s Community Emergency Response Team on how you can prepare and protect yourself in the event of a disaster. […]

(Seneca, SC)————————–The South Carolina Department of Transportation will hold its 2019 agency-wide highway litter clean-up today. The “Spring Spruce Up” includes hundreds of employees, from engineers and attorneys to administrative staff and leadership, volunteering to pick up litter across South Carolina roadways.  In the western part of the Upstate, look out in these areas for the SCDOT employees picking up […]

(Seneca, SC)—————-A Seneca woman has been sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. 37 year old Tabitha A. Hammond was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison.  According to a press release, a deputy from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office on August 8th, 2017 on routine patrol observed a vehicle that failed to […]

(Seneca, SC)—————————–The Board of Directors for Oconee Economic Alliance will hold a meeting at 9am tomorrow at the Oconee Campus of Tri-County Technical College. Among the items on the agenda will be the introduction of a talent attraction initiative.

(Seneca, SC)———————Tri-County Technical College has announced three finalists to be the next President of the College and replace Dr. Ronnie Booth who is retiring after sixteen years as President effective June 30th.  The three finalists are Dr. William C. Brothers, who is Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer with Southwestern Community College, D. Galen DeHay, Senior Vice-President for Tri-County Tech and […]

(Seneca, SC)————————–The Seneca Police Department arrested a Seneca man this week on charges of Discharging a Firearm Inside of the City Limits. 22 year old Alston O’Brian Bailey was arrested after officers were called to an apartment complex on West South Fourth Street Monday night in reference to shots being fired. Bailey told officers that he fired the shots into […]

(Seneca, SC)—————-BorgWarner is hosting a job fair today. The job fair is onsite at their facility on Wells Highway in Seneca from 12pm until 5pm and there is the possibility that those who attend may receive an onsite offer. BorgWarner is in immediate need for forklift drivers, assemblers and maintenance techs.

(Seneca, SC )———————-Former Seneca City Councilman Stuart Pohl won a special City Council election yesterday. 83 citizens of Seneca voted and Pohl received 79 of those votes. 4 individuals received write-in votes and no provisional ballots were cast, according to Oconee County Voter Registration and Elections. Pohl will fill the unexpired term of Anthony Herman Smith, who resigned from City […]