Category: News

(Seneca, SC)—————-U.S. Senator Tim Scott announced in a press release recently that he has been appointed Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure, as well as a member of the Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness, the Subcommittee on Healthcare and Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth.

(Seneca, SC)——————The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has been offering STD testing today at no cost at participating DHEC clinics as part of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.  For free information about the free STD testing sites, call DHEC’s South Carolina STD/HIV hotline at 1-855-472-3432 or scdhec.gov/stdhiv. Throughout the year, DHEC clinics provide HIV testing at a […]

(Seneca, SC)—————-The Home Builders Association of Anderson will be hosting the 2019 Anderson Home and Garden Expo this weekend at the Anderson Civic Center on Martin Luther King Boulevard. There will be several demonstrations at this year’s event as well as exhibitions that will include local landscape design, lawn and garden equipment, interior design, windows and window treatments, flooring, decking, […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Salem man with Homicide by Child Abuse. 22 year old Austin Michael Rogers remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center after being denied bond. He will appear before a Circuit Court Judge at a later time regarding bond. According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched […]

(Seneca, SC)————-The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Fair Play man on multiple charges, including Possession of a Stolen Vehicle. 31 year old Christopher Nicholas Elgin was observed walking by a Sheriff’s Office deputy on Armstrong Road late Monday afternoon. Elgin had outstanding warrants for his arrest. After catching up with Elgin, the deputy observed Elgin sitting in a […]

(Seneca, SC)——————94.1 The Lake would like to inform our listeners that we will be off the air Wednesday afternoon beginning at Noon and for up to five hours due to work that is going on to expand our office operations. According to Brandon Kessler, Vice-President and Operations Manager for The Lake, says the Lake will be expanding operations next door […]

(Seneca, SC)——————-As the school year proceeds to a close here in the next few months in Oconee County, a common question that law enforcement receives is what the law says in the state of South Carolina regarding motorists and stopped school buses on two lane roads and roadways with multiple lanes.  Lance Corporal Joe Hovis says that on a two […]

(Seneca, SC)———————The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Canon, GA man on charges of Domestic Violence – 3rd Degree and two counts of Assault and Battery – High and Aggravated. 48 year old Kenneth Todd Rakestraw is accused in arrest warrants of assaulting a member of his household by punching her in the face. Rakestraw is also accused in […]

(Seneca, SC)————–Oconee County has been awarded two Opportunity Zones, which were established under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Creation Act of 2017. Over 500 areas in the state were eligible but only 135 areas were seleted. That total included the two selected in Oconee, out of the several that Oconee County submitted. These areas are low income census tracts that […]