Category: News

For years, she was a familiar sight.  If you happened to look up from Seneca’s Miracle Circle intersection toward the manufacturing building that sits above the hill, you couldn’t help notice the neon figure of a woman wearing a bathing cap and a one-piece swim suit.  She was a sign of the times of the Jantzen sportswear plant that located […]

The Clemson Extension Service credits a program that was created in the 1960s with having a continuous rate of success in promoting good health among the country’s most vulnerable—low-resource families with children. The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program teaches participants how to budget their food dollars to increase food security and diet quality. In South Carolina, the program puts […]

The Oconee coroner reports a natural death this morning on I-85. Coroner Karl Addis says a 55-year old truck driver from Missouri was found slumped over in the driver’s seat shortly before the 3 o’clock hour this morning at the one mile marker northbound. Addis says witnesses are quoted as having seen the truck slow down and come to a […]

An Oconee narcotics unit drug investigation led to an arrest today in the Townville area of Oconee County. The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of James Gus Orr Jr. after a search warrant was executed at Orr’s home on Douglas Drive. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the following charges were placed against Orr: distribution of methamphetamine, possession with intent to […]

Oconee public school children continue to enjoy their annual spring break.  While this five-day vacation from the classroom is in progress, a civic club calls attention to five students worthy of recognition.  Here are the latest students of the quarter as recognized by the Seneca Rotary Club:  Jose Santiago Martinez of Blue Ridge Elementary School; Lilly Hammond of Northside Elementary; […]

The next in a series of community awareness meetings staged by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office will take place next week near Seneca. The community awareness meetings focus on how to help prevent crime, how to protect yourself from crime, and general education about crimes where you live. Next week’s meeting will be 7 to 8 o’clock Thursday night, April 25 […]

Rosa Clark, the federally qualified health center on the grounds of Oconee hospital, is not finished expanding. Vickie Thompson, executive director, believes there’s a good chance federal funds will be approved to allow the clinic to open a Walhalla facility, as well as extend dental care into rural parts of the county, among other new services. Rosa Clark offers services […]

A proclamation is scheduled to be read next week by the Oconee County Council in recognition of the passing of a weekly newspaper tradition in the county. At its meeting Tuesday night, the council is scheduled to pass a proclamation recognizing the Keowee Courier and Westminster News—two papers that recently stopped publishing and merged with The Journal at Seneca.

An all night search has ended in Anderson County with the finding of a missing 11 year old girl.  Anderson authorities say Brittany McClain is OK.  She was found riding her bike near Lester Road in Williamston.  A woman who had seen a social media post recognized Brittany.

A 30-year old Central woman died on Tuesday—two days after her car ran off a roadway near Easley. Deputy Coroner Gary Duncan says Holly Lynn Gross died at the Prisma Greenville hospital. The accident occurred at 2:20 Sunday morning.