Category: News

Senator Lindsey Graham will lead a bi-partisan congressional delegation this weekend to the Munich Security Conference. According to Graham’s Washington office, the conference is considered the leading forum for international security policy. It’s a ‘marketplace of ideas’ where initiatives and solutions are developed and opinions exchanged. Decision makers also attending include Vice President Mike Pence and Acting Defense Secretary Patrick […]

At Easley today, Thrift Development crews will temporarily close part of the Saluda Dam Road to allow for the placement of cross-line storm drainage pipe, as part of the SC-153 Extension project. Motorists are advised they may be able to detour around using Pace Valley Road to Saco Lowell Road and Prince Perry Road to Saco Lowell Road.

A drop-in today will mark 50 years of educating students at the Oconee County Fred P. Hamilton Career Center in Bountyland. The school district invites everyone to a drop-in at the campus from 12:30 to 4 pm for a tour of the building, light refreshments, and the changes that are ahead when the career center re-locates to a new location […]

Invitation letters have gone out to more than 100 property owners along 123 from Seneca to Clemson, as the Oconee County Planning Commission studies what to do about increasing traffic volumes on the major highway between the two municipalities. The property owners are invited to take part in the planning commission meeting at 6 pm Monday, March 18 in the […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office quotes a husband as saying he has neither seen, nor had contact with his wife in a month and a half. The woman, 45-year old Laura Anders, was listed this afternoon as missing. The husband says he left for Spartanburg January 2, returned to Seneca January 30 and has had no contact. Deputies have tried to find […]

Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of his chamber’s Judiciary Committee, calls it a “great day”—because President Trump’s nominee for attorney general was confirmed in a 56-45. Meaning William Barr is to be the next attorney general of the United States. Graham, Republican from Oconee County, says the best indication of what Barr will do is to draw on his previous attorney […]

An exhibit page that accompanies the agenda for next week’s Oconee School Board meeting identifies the properties being recommended for the Seneca Middle School. A sketch of the properties shows two large parcels fronting the Wells Highway and Garrison Road. In all, according to associate superintendent Steve Hanvey, recommended for purchase will be between 35 and 40 acres for the […]

Why water continues to leak onto a section of the 123 Seneca ByPass has proved a mystery and a source of frustration to the city crews who are trying to pinpoint the source and make repairs. Unfortunately, according to Bob Faires of the Light and Water Plant, the lack of written records of exactly where the water lines run is […]

The first pieces of heavy machinery are in place on 14 acres, a sign that the start of construction on the Foothills Area YMCA is imminent. That’s the expectation and the hope of the Six Mile woman who is the top mover and shaker in the long-time project to build a new YMCA in Oconee County. Christle Ross made a […]

Rep. Jeff Duncan is one of five members of the South Carolina delegation to Washington seeking to disqualify abortion providers from Medicaid subsidies. Duncan’s announcement states that he recently led a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services to support Gov. Henry McMaster’s request for a waiver to exclude abortion providers from Medicaid participation. Medicaid is the government […]