Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites
Next week, the May 15-21 is Transportation Week, and Mayor Dan Alexander issued a proclamation on the importance of free bus services. Seneca, with its transit operating partner, Clemson Area Transit (CATbus), became the envy of larger municipalities everywhere when it was the world’s first to launch an all-electric bus fleet in February 2015. Seneca and CATbus chose Greenville, S.C.-based […]
Read moreThe Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is announcing that the Oconee County Detention Center has a new inmate communications service provider. Due to this change, family and friends will have to create a new account in order to communicate with someone who is incarcerated. CIDNET, powered by Encartele, is the new provider and is providing video visits, messages and phone calls. […]
Read more25-year old Rachel Jean McClain of Travelers Rest, was placed under arrest after a late Monday night pursuit in Oconee County by law enforcement which reached speeds of around 100mph. A deputy with the Sheriff’s Office deployed stop sticks to bring the chase to an end on SC-11 at the US 123 interchange. McClain was charged with several drug and […]
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Drivers are paying more at the pump—a lot more—as the cost of gasoline moves steadily higher. In the past two weeks, the national average for a gallon of gasoline has risen 20 cents to $4.32, a penny less than the record high set on March 11, but it’s still 20 cents more than a month ago, and $1.36 more than […]
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Seneca City Council met last night and Administrator Scott Moulder urged the members to absorb the numbers for the new fiscal year’s budget and prepare for a first vote on May 24th. Moulder announced key numbers in Seneca’s projected budgets for 2022-23, and also highlighted 3% pay raises for staff and no millage increase…
Read moreAccording to jail records, on Monday Oconee County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 37 year-old William Lamar Crawford of Westminster and charged him with his second offense for manufacturing methamphetamine. He’s also been charged with possession of marijuana and numerous traffic related offenses, including driving without a license or insurance. He remains in custody at the Oconee County Detention Center at this […]
Read moreWASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) has written to Attorney General Merrick Garland pressing him to protect Supreme Court justices from threats of violence and protests taking place outside their residences. Graham noted there is a federal law that prohibits, “picketing, parades or any other demonstrations outside federal courts or the homes of federal judges and justices that are […]
Read moreWASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) introduced a Senate resolution affirming that the United States Senate views the actions of the government of the Russian Federation, at the direction of President Vladimir Putin, as sponsoring acts of terrorism, and calls on the Secretary of State to designate the Russian Federation as a State Sponsor of […]
Read moreSeneca City Fire was dispatched late last night to a woods fire near Lowes. Seneca Fire Chief Richie Caudill said this is the second woods fire in as many days involving a homeless camp in the area… There were no injuries reported in the fire last night, nor in the fire on Monday near West North First Street, which burned […]
Read moreHart County, GA Sheriff Mike Cleveland said that 59-year-old Morris Maurice Norwood was arrested Tuesday after two people were shot to death Monday at about 1 p.m. on Redwine Church Road. Cleveland said a car pulled up to another car and someone started shooting. The Hart County Coroner identified the victims as Jerece Teasley, 26, from Hartwell and Alexius Spencer, […]
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