Category: News

  (Seneca, SC)————-The Seneca Police Department arrested a Seneca man late last week on a charge of Unlawful Neglect of a Child. 38 year old Michael Allen Wood was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 3pm on January 19th. The arrest warrant obtained by officers accuses Wood of striking a 2 year old child multiple times and throwing […]

  (Seneca, SC)——————————-An announcement was made recenlty stating that Greenville Health System and Palmetto Health are now known as Prisma Health. With the announcment, our hosptial here in the Golden Corner is now Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital.

  (Seneca, SC)——————————The rain event on Saturday here in the Golden Corner produced 1.4 inches of rain, according to Barbara Wilson, the county weather observer. For the year, so far, Oconee County has received over 5 and one-half inches of percipitation. Since January 1st of last year, the Golden Corner has clocked in with over 89 and one-half inches of […]

  (Seneca, SC)—————Last Friday, U.S. Senator and Seneca Native Lindsey Graham made a statement regarding the upcoming second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. As part of that statement, Senator Graham says “I appreciate the Trump Administration’s hard work. I hope the summit leads to a lasting and meaningful peace for the Korean Peninsula […]

  (Seneca, SC)——————The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest last week after the execution of a search warrant on Caledonia Drive in the Easley area. Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office, working with the South Carolina Attorney General’s Office, charged John James Fread II with seven counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor – 2nd Degree and three counts of […]

(Seneca, SC)—————-The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 16 year old whose body was found over the weekend along Saluda Dam Road in Pickens County. The body was discovered by a passing motorists around 12:15pm Saturday. According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, preliminary evidence collected during an autopsy that was completed yesterday revealed […]

(Seneca, SC)————————————-The Regular Board Meeting for the School District of Oconee County is set for next Tuesday at 6pm and the School Board will be doing a first reading on several items, including School Choice Application, Assisting Students with Medications and Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention. Also, it is School Board Recognition Month and Denise McCormick and Andy Inabinet will […]