Northeast Georgia missionaries caught in Haiti unrest

Missionaries from Hartwell, Georgia’s Mount Olivet Baptist Church find themselves in the middle of civil unrest on the Caribbean island of Haiti and are struggling to get home to northeast Georgia. They were to fly Saturday but the unrest and violence prevented them from making a two-hour trip to the airport. WLHR Lake Hartwell Radio quotes Mount Olivet Pastor Jason […]

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A public comment period closes this week

South Carolina DHEC has selected Wednesday this week as the last day for commenting on whether a Knoxville, Tennessee company may place 56 boat slips in the Hunnicutt Cove of Lake Keowee in front of the new home development Timber Bay. DHEC representatives took direct feedback two weeks ago during a Walhalla public hearing.

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Seneca Development Committee to meet

Just as talk spreads of new business interest on the by-pass and in the downtown, there will be a meeting today of the Seneca Development Committee. The meeting is planned 4 o’clock this afternoon in the City Hall Conference Room. Three items are on the agenda: Business Development Incentive Program, Commercial Building Improvement Program, and Seneca Improvements Corporation.

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How to build it large and succeed

A slogan of the Trehel Corporation reads, “Creating Quality Buildings and Lasting Relationships.” If there’s a secret to doing that, Walhalla Rotarians may hear all about it today. The guest speaker for their meeting will be Neal Workman, the former Walhallan and founder of Clemson-based Trehel Corporation.

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Hazel Sims Porter

Salem, SC— Hazel Sims Porter, 70, wife of the late Gerald Lane Porter, Sr., of 121 Old Chapman Bridge Road, Salem passed away Friday, July 6, 2018 at St. Francis Downtown. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 PM, Monday, July 9, 2018, at Mt. Carmel #2 Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends […]

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Wilburn “Bill” T. Singleton

Westminster, SC — Wilburn “Bill” T. Singleton, 78, husband of Sandra Burton Singleton, of 111 West Freeman Road, Westminster, passed away Sunday, July 8, 2018, at GHS Oconee Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at Davenport Funeral Home with burial to follow at Chauga Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends […]

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Publix acquires the Bi-Lo lease

Looking from the outside, the building that housed a Seneca supermarket there’s no semblance that the building off SC 130 ever was home to one of Seneca’s two Bi-Lo stores. On Friday, however, some activity was spotted there…and it prompted a call by 101.7/WGOG NEWS to the Publix supermarket chain to try to learn whether what once was a Bi-Lo […]

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Ronald J. Allen

July 3, 2018, In Loving Memory of My Husband & Best Friend Ronald J. Allen, 59, of 689 Sitton Mill Rd. Seneca went home to be with his Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ on Tuesday. A Funeral Service will be held 2 pm, Thursday, July 12, 2018 at Sandifer Funeral Home Chapel with a burial to follow at Corinth Baptist […]

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For Moulder, statewide conference will be municipal instead of county

Seneca usually is well represented at an annual statewide conference at the beach. This summer’s meeting is set July 19-22 at a Hilton Head Island hotel. Notwithstanding the vacation setting, meetings of the South Carolina Municipal Association are packed with sessions in which municipal leaders from cities of all sizes can learn how to govern better and more effectively. There’ll […]

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