Category: News

The area of Seneca’s Monarch Park used to be a place just for butterflies. Part of the property behind E-N 1st Street will soon be home to a complex that addresses Seneca’s housing needs. A permit has been opened at City Hall that allows Ohio companies to open a 50-unit complex called Hunter Oaks apartments on 12.5 acres. At quitting […]

South Carolina businesses added 3,800 jobs during November, according to the Department of Employment and Workforce.  In Oconee County, however, 20 fewer members of the labor force were on the job.  Still, the county’s jobless rate showed no change from October to November, holding at 3.8%.  The latest count in the Oconee workforce comes to 33,776 people at work.  While […]

If it’s true, as some believe, we are headstrong into the dumbing down of society, can a Clemson University official offer a solution?  The answer may come next month when Dr. Leigh Martin speaks to a meeting of the League of Women Voters.  The public is invited to hear Martin speak on “The Looming Teacher Shortage” at 7:30 Tuesday night, […]

Unusual is it for Seneca’s Board of Zoning Appeals to hold private meetings, but one such meeting was convened last night at City Hall. An October decision by the board rejecting a couple’s appeal is now the subject of a challenge in the Common Pleas Court. And last night’s executive session was a chance by the city’s next attorney, Bo […]

Oconee County government offices have gone into a holiday shutdown mode.  They are now closed until Wednesday, December 27 for the Christmas holiday. While the Sheriff’s Office in the Law Enforcement Center at Walhalla has closed, normal law enforcement operations continue through the period.

A 31-year old Anderson man was placed in Oconee County custody yesterday to answer charges that he broke into a parked car near Seneca and stole items worth $8,400. Those items included a tenor saxophone. Kenneth Franklin Tollison was charged with grand larceny and breaking into a car. The crimes are alleged to have taken place 2013 in the parking […]

A new Dollar General store will be built at the corner of W-N 1st and Yarid streets in Seneca. After a hearing at City Hall, a regulatory board approved a variance to the zoning law that will allow the developers to incorporate five fewer parking spaces in their site plan than the city requires. No one from the public was […]

A man was arrested yesterday as Oconee deputies responded to a report of a disturbance near Walhalla, in the vicinity of the Lake Jemiki Road. But the man arrested there was served with a warrant charging him in a five-month old assault case near Seneca. The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Michael Lee Carter of Deer Park Drive, Seneca, […]

A Lees-McRae College student from the Pickens County town of Central, Emily Trumbower, completed the fall semester with academic honors.  She landed on the Dean’s List for the 2017 fall semester.  Dean’s List students must be full-time, earn no lower than a “C” course grade and either achieve or maintain a semester GPA of 3.5 or higher.   Located in […]

Clemson University awarded more than 1,400 degrees today in two ceremonies at Littlejohn Coliseum.  The degrees included 1,097 bachelor’s degrees and 279 master’s.  Sixty-two Ph.D.s also graduated and were honored last evening in a hooding ceremony.