Category: News

Seneca has announced the cancellation of the December 18 meeting of the city planning commission.  The property for which the hearing had been scheduled was posted, but Ed Halbig said this afternoon he received a call requesting the withdrawal of the re-zoning request for Thrift Brothers’ property off 123 By-Pass, bordered by N. Walnut Street.

Snow has begun to stick to pavements in the upper sections of Oconee County, and the public schools are dismissing early.  Buses to transport students home to the mountainous sections are already on the roads.  The elementary schools are dismissing at 12:15 and the middle and high schools at 1 pm, according to announcement by Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent.  Early […]

An Oconeean went to a dance in Atlanta and claims she was unknowingly drugged and sexually assaulted by a Georgia resident. Her lawyers say within hours she drove back to South Carolina and went to Oconee Memorial Hospital to be examined. What then happened led to the allegations in a damage suit filed in the Common Pleas Court against the […]

A 4th grader at Seneca’s Northside Elementary School submitted the winning design for the front license plate of a patrol car operated by the school resource officer.  The contest design winner, Jason Mauldin, was treated to lunch with his principal and Corp. Mike Thompson.  A school resource officer, Thompson asked students at three Seneca schools to design a new front […]

A Rabun County, Georgia man was arrested this week in Oconee County on a pair of charges after a deputy responded to a report of suspicious persons on the grounds of a group home for female adolescents in Tamassee community. According to law enforcement reports, Al Lido Lococo of Mountain City was charged with resisting arrest and fugitive from justice. […]

Social service work in Oconee County is practically synonymous with the name Marie Dunnam.  But not so much in the future.  Dunnam this afternoon announced her retirement, capping a 50-year career in the field.  She thought she had retired years ago as a DSS director, but became the first director of Oconee’s First Steps program.  During a program in which […]

A state trooper says charges are pending further investigation in this morning’s accident near Westminster that took the life of moped operator Francisco Garcia.  The 65-year old Westminster man died in a two-vehicle accident on SC 183, the Walhalla-Westminster Highway, about one mile from the Westminster city limit.  The accident created a detour in the vicinity of the Ulbrich plant.  […]

The coroner moments ago identified the fatal victim in this morning’s accident near Westminster.  He was the moped operator, Francisco Garcia, 65, of Westminster.  Garcia lost his life in an accident a little more than one mile from his home city.  The accident, involving a car and a moped, was reported around 6:45 this morning on two-lane SC 183/the Walhalla […]

U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) was named by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as one of the Senators participating in final negotiations on the new tax bill. Republicans say the bill is pro-middle class and its effects will promote economic growth. Analysts and Democratic opponents claim it will benefit the rich over the middle class. Scott is pleased to be […]

Non-profit Fostering Faithfully benefitted last month from a diaper and wipe drive by West-Oak Middle School. The non-profit promotes foster care and adoption in the local community. Beta Club advisor Jason Ray says, “I get to see every day the need, the heart break and hardships that children endure when they are ripped out of their homes and schools and […]