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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man over the weekend on a Trafficking in Methamphetamine charge. 28 year old Luther Darren Reid was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 2:46 pm Sunday. Reid was also charged with Driving under Suspension and Operating a Motor Vehicle Uninsured. A deputy from the Uniform Patrol Division, on routine patrol […]

Late Monday night, the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office received a report that multiple 911 calls had come into the dispatch center with an open line and no one speaking. Deputies arrested David Anthony Burch age 42 of Westminster and charged him with use of 911 unlawfully. Reports state that Burch called 911 and told dispatchers that he was driving down […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Salem man this past weekend on outstanding warrants charging him with First Degree Burglary and Petit Larceny. 24 year old David Ronald Ramey was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 12:50pm last Saturday. Ramey was also served a Magistrates Bench Warrant and a hold has been placed on Ramey by the […]

Scheduled opening in August 2024 A  targeted opening date of August 2024 for the new Seneca MIddle School was announced at a Board of Trustees meeting held Monday, February 8, 2021.   District administrators had been hopeful to open the new school a year earlier.  However, several factors out of the district’s control have resulted in the delay.  Those factors include: […]

“We have been made aware of an accident that occured at Walhalla Middle School on Razorback lane. A bus crossed the centerline, sideswiping a car waiting in the pick-up line.  There were no students on the bus at the time.  As far as we’ve been told, there were no injuries to anyone in the car or to the bus driver.  […]

Today marks the first anniversary for the Foothills Area YMCA of being opened in Seneca and CEO Christale Ross said that they kicked off the celebration this morning with a blood drive in conjunction with The Blood Connection…

Walhalla Police Chief Sean Brinson said that they have received several calls recently in reference to loose dogs running inside the city. Residents are being asked to please restrain your dog within your property and when leaving the house with your dog be sure to use a leash. Please contact the Walhalla Police Department if you have any questions or […]

An ongoing investigation by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office into the January 11th assault of four corrections officers at the County Detention Center has yielded charges against the second of two inmates accused in the incident. 24 year-old Tyler Wayne Smith of West Union is in jail and charged with 3rd Degree Assault and Battery by Mob, for which he […]

22 year-old Joseph Gordon Thomas, Jr. has been charged by Walhalla Police with both petty and grand larceny. Police officials said on Friday that the charges against Thomas stem from the theft of a woman’s car and cell phone from a Walhalla apartment complex. The incident is alleged to have taken place in June of last year, according to police.