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(Seneca, SC)—————–Prisma Health is announcing today that due to increased flu activity, individuals who are 18 years of age or younger are being asked not to visit patients in any Prisma Health – Upstate Facility, which includes the entire campus of Prisma Health – Oconee Memorial Hospital. In addition, visitors of any age who are showing signs and symptoms of […]

  (Seneca, SC)——— U.S. Senator Tim Scott announced this week that he has introduced legislation in the Senate, which is called the Creating Hope and Opporunity for Individuals and Communities Through Education Act. The Act would give military families, families of students with disabilities, and low-income students in Washington, D.C.—together, totaling more than 6.2 million students nationwide—, access to greater […]

  (Seneca, SC)——————–The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office made an arrest earlier this week of an Oconee County man who had multiple outstanding warrants. 30 year old Phillip Travis Lear was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 5:37pm Sunday. Lear was arrested by deputies conducting a warrants service at an address on Knox Landing Road in Seneca. Besides multiple […]

  (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 […]