Category: News

(Seneca, SC)—————————The Seneca Transit Service met Tuesday night and Wednesday afternoon of this week. With details on the two days of meetings, here is Ed Halbig, the Director for Planning and Development for the city of Seneca.  The meetings were held in order to receive comment on the changes that were made temporarily in regard to moving the downtown bus […]

(Seneca, SC)———————The Seneca Zoning Board of Appeals met last night with two items on the agenda regarding property owners requesting setbacks on their property for the purposes of placing garages on their property. One of the locations is an address on South Depot Street and the other is an address on Westchester Drive. Both requests were approved for variance in […]

(Seneca, SC)————————The Seneca Planning Commission held a meeting earlier this week and three applications were on the agenda, including two that involved requests to rezone property. The first rezoning request was for property located on Towe Street to be rezoned to residence general in regards to placement of a manufactured home. The second request involved the old Sandifer Funeral Home […]

The Oconee Humane Society, as part of National Adoption Weekend, is hosting a three day adoption event that begins this afternoon at Pet Smart in Seneca. While there is a great need for pets to find good homes, Angel Newman from the Oconee Humane Society, says that potential adopters need to make sure that they can make a commitment to […]

(Seneca, SC)———————-Oconee County and much of the area remains under a Flood Watch until 7pm and more rain is on the way for today and tomorrow. According to Barbara Wilson, our official County Weather Observer, the County received 0.88 inches of rain for the 24 hour period ending this morning at 7 am. For this week, so far, Barbara says […]

(Seneca, SC)—————————-As the Oconee County Planning Commission seeks the public’s input into a Comprehensive Plan that they are working on, the Planning Commission is also seeking the public’s input into another project they are working on, the Highway 123 Corridor Plan and there are some meetings coming up in March in this regard. Adam Chapman, the Planning Director for Oconee […]

(Seneca, SC)———————-Anderson County Sheriff’s Office has announced that the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has taken over an investigation into a recent shooting on Whirlaway Circle that resulted in the death of Rodney Gilmer, who was a first responder.

(Seneca, SC)———————————————-The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, working in cooperation with the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office, has charged three individuals in relation to several automobile break-ins that occurred in late January in the area of Clemson Boulevard at Liberty Highway in Anderson County.  A detective with the Sheriff’s Office was able to identify three suspects working in conjunction with the Oconee […]

(Seneca, SC)—————–The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged an Anderson County man with six separate counts of Shoplifting. 57 year old Cory Hampton Witt is accused of taking television sets from the Seneca Walmart location on six separate occasions. The first incident occurred on February 21st, when Witt took a 50 inch TV set from the store. Witt took another […]