Category: News

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.

An early morning shooting death has claimed the life of a 54-year old woman in Pickens. Deputy Coroner Gary Duncan says Claudette Purry was shot in her home at 1 o’clock yesterday morning at 509 Pendleton Street in Pickens. The Pickens police are investigating.

Fire during the noon hour yesterday at Seneca burns one side of a Seneca duplex. Chief Richie Caudill says the fire scene was a town house on Tamarack Drive. No one was hurt. Caudill says the fire fighters stopped the fire in about 10 minutes. No one was hurt. Besides Seneca Fire Department, responding were the police and the Red […]

South Carolina DHEC has gone into the Oconee Common Pleas Court seeking enforcement action against the owner of a private landfill, with whom it entered a consent order in June 2018. A DHEC attorney, Etta Williams Linen, wants DeWayne Pelfrey, owner of the White Land-Clearing Debris and Yard Trash Landfill near Seneca, to comply with the consent order and pay […]

Maintenance work at Georgia 170 southbound on I-85 today has shut down the left lane of travel.  To avoid that slowdown and backup, some motorists have exited at Lavonia.  As a result that city’s downtown is seeing heavy traffic.  Adding to that this afternoon was a two-vehicle wreck reported on I-85 southbound in Oconee near exit 1.

A Seneca man has been jailed and charged with burglarizing a neighbor’s home. The inventory of what was taken from the home on Pelfrey Street near 123 includes a safe, money, a television, and other personal property. The burglary occurred between April 7-9 and, according to the police, occurred while the home owner was in the hospital. Law enforcement records […]