2020 an especially unkind year for Seneca

You can imagine that come New Year’s Eve officials of Seneca will wish good riddance to a turbulent year.  Like everyone else, the city is dealing with the pandemic.  Added to that are the expensive difficulties Seneca in recovering from an EF3 tornado and fire that nearly destroyed the city’s fleet of garbage trucks.  One or more has impacted an effort to further extend the city’s free bus service beyond the city limits and beyond the most recent additional routes that serve the Bountyland area as well as the county’s Information and Technology Park on highway 11.  “With all of the uncertainties that we’ve been dealing with, (bus) expansion has not been at the front of our minds or our agenda at this time,” says Ed Halbig, director of planning and community development.  Which means that, for the foreseeable future, you won’t see passenger bus service connecting the county’s three largest municipalities:  Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster.