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(Seneca, SC)————-At Tuesday night’s Seneca City Council meeting, City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution allocating up to $183,000 in matching funds in regards to a $500,000 Community Development Block Grant for the purposes of demolishing the old J.N. Kellett Elementary School.  “As part of their procedures, we’re required to pass a resolution that identifies that we’re responsible for […]

(Seneca, SC)———-The Walhalla Police Department arrested a Walhalla man Wednesday evening on multiple charges.  34 year old Bradley Wayne Hockenberry has been charged, according to information from the Oconee County Detention Center, with one count each of Receiving Stolen Goods, Third Degree Burglary and Petit Larceny.  According to a case report issued by the Walhalla Police Department, a police officer […]

(Seneca, SC)—————The Seneca Police Department arrested a Seneca man on three outstanding warrants related to narcotics activity.  35 year old Curtis Chason Gurley was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on Wednesday evening.  According to a case report issued by the Seneca Police Department, Seneca police, responding to a suspicious person’s call on Wednesday, observed an individual matching the […]

(Seneca, SC)————–A Special Called Board Meeting of the School District of Oconee County Board of Trustees will be taking place this morning at 8:30am in the School Board Conference Room on South Pine Street in Walhalla.  During the meeting, there is expected to be a discussion with members of the Oconee County Legislative Delegation.

(Seneca, SC)—AAA Carolinas is forecasting that a record number of Carolinians will be traveling for the year end Christmas and New Year’s holiday season.  The travel organization is predicting that 3.3 million North Carolinians and 1.6 million South Carolinians will be traveling by various forms of transportation between the time period of Sunday, December 22nd thru Wednesday, January 1st, which […]

(Seneca, SC)—At Tuesday night’s Seneca City Council meeting, Council approved by an unanimous vote the sale of a Vacuum Truck to the city of Westminster in the amount of $35,000.  Seneca City Administrator Scott Moulder said Tuesday night that the city had an older model vacuum truck that was expiring and that money was in the budget to buy a […]

(Seneca, SC)—As 94.1 The Lake reported yesterday, Seneca City Council passed the 2nd and final reading of an ordinance, by a 6-2 vote, that allows for the construction of a 34 unit housing development on property located on S. 7th Street at Townville and Fairplay Streets.  Of the 13 individuals who addressed Council during the public comment session, a majority […]

(Seneca, SC)—The South Carolina Highway Patrol issued an update on their investigation of an accident that occurred on Monday morning in Anderson County on the Highway 28 bypass at West Park Drive near the city of Anderson that was originally reported as a hit and run fatal accident.  According to Trooper Joe Hovis of the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the […]

(Seneca, SC)—The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man and a woman with one count each of Voluntary Manslaughter as a result of the investigation into a structure fire at an address on Lonsdale Street in which the body of a deceased Seneca man was located inside back on November 26th.  27 year old Karissa Jane Davis and 41 […]