Category: News

The Westminster Special Events Committee meets at 4 o’clock this afternoon in the Conference Room of City Hall.

Blood was found at both the home and on the road when the Seneca police arrived late last night to a report of a stabbing.  And they also found several people on S. Oak Street.  The incident escalated into a homicide with the death during surgery this morning of a 53-year old man.  Coroner Karl Addis says the victim, Thomas […]

The summer graduation at Clemson University is underway this morning in Littlejohn Coliseum.

One man is dead after a stabbing last night in Seneca.  Coroner Karl Addis says Thomas “Tony” Mark died at 5:41 this morning in surgery at the Greenville Memorial Hospital.  Addis says the stab wound was in the abdomen.  The incident occurred in the 400 block of S. Oak Street. The coroner calls the death a homicide which is under […]

The squabble over whether Oconee’s top building official should have been fired has been joined in the Common Pleas Court.  Responses and counterclaims were filed this week for defendants Oconee County, Wayne McCall, and Edda Cammick.  Plaintiff David Stokes alleges slander and wrongful termination.  But the court filings for the defendants claim Stokes is pursuing a frivolous lawsuit and is […]

Clemson University celebrates the 100th birthday of Col. Ben Skardon in three events on campus.  Skardon is an alumnus and professor emeritus best known for surviving the Bataan Death March during the Second World War.  Local, state and national honors will be bestowed during a private lunch at noon.  The public is invited at 4 o’clock on Williamson Road in […]

At their meeting next week, Oconee County Council takes up business pertaining to Golden Corner Commerce Park–both in an open and closed sessions.  First and final reading is planned for a resolution to approve $3.5 million in special source revenue bonds.  Executive session time is planned for legal advice on a contract for the design and  construction of the speculative […]

John Asher Farrell Villarreal will spend the rest of his life in prison to atone for murder and attempted murder.  The office of 10th Solicitor David Wagner today announced the sentencing on Wednesday of Villarreal for the Christmas Eve 2014 shooting death of Mary Fowler.  She was a passenger in a car that stopped and picked up Villarreal in Greenville and […]

Two hikers were found this morning at Long Creek fatigued and de-hydrated but otherwise OK, according to a deputy sheriff.  Officer David Owens said one of the men is a 70-year old Spartanburg resident; the other is a 21-year old from Boston.  They had planned to spend the night in the vicinity of Possum Falls Trail, but became lost and […]