Category: News

A 37-year old woman has been arrested by the Seneca police—the result of undercover drug operations that date back to February. The police are announcing the arrest of Frankie Ann Goss, whose addresses are listed as both Seneca and Anderson. Warrants allege Goss distributed a quantity of methamphetamine to an undercover operative working at the direction of the police on […]

Senators Tim Scott (R-SC), Richard Burr (R-NC), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) introduced the Patient Access to Cellular Transplant (PACT) Act. The bill is designed to protect access to bone marrow and cord blood transplants for Americans on Medicare and better align payment policies for hospitals that treat seniors with different types of blood cancers, like leukemia, lymphoma, […]

An Anderson 18-year-old has won $125,000 playing the South Carolina Education Lottery. The teen’s friends and family thought he was joking when he called them with the news.“None of them believed me,” he told lottery officials in Columbia this week. That’s when he decided to text his friends and family a picture of the winning ticket he’d purchased from the […]

This is groundbreaking day for a state agency near Seneca for those whose mission is to help those with disabilities find places in the workforce. South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation, serving Oconee and Pickens from a location on the Wells Highway, along with its contractor, will break ground today to expand the Voke Re-hab training center. That will help the Seneca […]

The issues over climate change remain partisan in Washington, as the Democratic-controlled House passed a bill to force the U-S to stay in the Paris accord. South Carolina 3rd District Rep. Jeff Duncan, the Laurens Republican, voted in the minority as the bill passed 231-190. Duncan supports President Trump’s 2017 announcement of intent to withdraw the U-S from the accord—calling […]

The Pendleton High School FFA team returned from competition at the Annual South Carolina Envirothon. Team members, along with their coaches, brought home a third place finish and a $250 dollar scholarship for each team member. Perhaps more valuable was the experience. Each year, 9th-12th graders across the state spend a day away from the structured class day and get […]

Duke Energy Carolinas will be allowed to raise bills, but not to the level it wanted. A consumer official says the South Carolina Public Service Commission issued a directive  yesterday that limits the Duke increase in its basic facilities charge to $11.96 a month. Duke had wanted to set the charge as a high as $28 a month.  The basic […]

Two new electric buses to expand service in Oconee go “on line” this summer—which means that bus maker Proterra is to start to build the two buses in August. Which means the hope is for those buses will be ready to run routes to and from the new Oconee campus of Tri-County Technical College. In its rural location on highway […]

A contractor from Anderson has started to excavate the embankment where part of the roadside collapsed requiring a detour of traffic away from a section of 123/the Toccoa Highway—between Westminster and Georgia. A South Carolina DOT official admitted today the torrential rains of April 19 have made worse the situation, and there are unanswered questions about the restoration project moving […]

There may be something moving with the building that sits idle and in disrepair that served for about 50 years as the Oconee County Courthouse.  In recent years, the county has given two developers time to pursue their plan to convert the 1956 building into a boutique-style hotel.  On the agenda for next week’s Oconee County Council meeting is an […]