Category: News

Jury selection was in progress today in the Oconee Common Pleas Court for a case alleging medical malpractice. Plaintiff in the case is Oconee resident Camille Hess; the defendants are Dr. Miles McGuff of Blue Ridge Emergency Physicians and the Oconee Medical Center. The plaintiff side contends that the treatment of a detached retina led to the loss of Hess’s […]

Seneca invites the public in tonight for a hearing on bus passenger service. Topics such as government grants to run the CAT buses, transit stops, and route changes are all fair game for comment tonight at City Hall. The public hearing starts at 6 o’clock. A similar hearing is planned at City Hall for the noon hour tomorrow.

When it comes to building changes in Seneca’s downtown commercial area, city officials are seeing colors. Specifically, they are considering what shades of colors may be painted on buildings whose owners qualify for financial assistance from the city. The thinking is, if the city helps pay for the work there should be some kind of uniformity to re-painted downtown buildings. […]

Walhalla voters will choose a new mayor in 2019. And, although the November election is months away, there’s talk of who might run for the city’s top elected office—should Danny Edwards choose to step down. Yesterday Edwards told 101.7/WGOG NEWS he has not yet made up his mind if he will seek a third, four-year term. Two names prominently mentioned […]

Oconee School District will pay $834 thousand dollars three groups of property owners for a little more than 40 acres on which the district will build a replacement Seneca middle school. The property fronts both Wells Highway and Garrison Road, not far from the 59 intersection. The deal, agreed to last night, is contingent on approvals from the South Carolina […]

Two Oconee women remain missing into a second week. Laura Anders and Pamela Faith Roach were reported as separate missing person cases last week. Twenty-six year old Roach was last heard from February 11. She was believed to have been living in the Flat Rock Road area near Walhalla. She is a white female, strawberry blonde, blue eyes, 5’5”, 110 […]

Duke Energy plans to meet future energy growth in Clemson and surrounding area with a new substation and a re-built transmission line. Details from the electric utility today call for the Death Valley substation to be built on the eastern side of university property near Pendleton Road and highway 76. That’s the area closest to the load center where electricity […]

Anderson resident Lindsay Cabasa, an associate degree Nursing student at Tri-County Technical College is one of 10 students statewide elected to serve on the South Carolina Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) Board. The Student Nurses’ Association of South Carolina (SNA-SC) is a pre-professional organization for nursing and pre-nursing students enrolled in South Carolina-accredited associate and baccalaureate degree nursing programs. The association […]

The movie Elbow Grease can be seen by audiences north of the border. Casting director Shelby Henderson says the movie that featured Burt Reynolds and used Seneca and parts of Oconee as backdrops is being shown to a film festival audience in Canada. Elbow Grease had a Seneca premiere last year, but has never found its way into general distribution.

The search to find the next president for Tri-County Technical College narrows this week as the commission chairman says the focus will be to establish the three top candidates. The chairman, John Powell of Walhalla, said he and the others have gone thru some 90 applications. Ultimately, the individual chosen will have the duty to succeed Dr. Ronnie Booth, whose […]