Category: News

Sources indicate there’s consideration being given to the idea of City of Seneca of assuming the job of staging the city’s Christmas parade.  For many years, running the parade has been the province of the chamber of commerce.  We’re told it’s to be a matter of discussion for the next meeting of city council’s events committee.  That committee is chaired […]

Dean Awalt says he has enjoyed his time as Westminster police chief and is going to miss the job, the city, and especially the citizens.  A retirement drop-in for Awalt takes place at 5:30 this evening at the Westminster Depot.

An Easley woman has been charged with falsifying a claim to the GEICO insurance company and receiving $1,352.00. The state police yesterday announced the arrest of Tiffany Dawn Poston, 42 years old.  The charge of forgery against Poston is a felony that carries a potential penalty of five years in prison or a fine at the court’s discretion, or both.  […]

Clemson University learned of the loss of one of its emeritus trustees, Les Tindal of Pinewood. Tindal was a Clemson trustee from 1973 to 1982, when he resigned to become commissioner of agriculture for South Carolina. He held that post until he retired in 2002.  When Tindal left the Clemson board, the trustees approved a resolution naming him a trustee […]

The board of directors of Oconee Medical Holdings voted at a meeting yesterday to transfer about 14.5 acres to the Foothills YMCA to build a recreation and aquatic center at the Oconee Medical Campus of Greenville Health System.  The transfer agreement is contingent on the Foothills YMCA receiving bank financing for construction of the project, which is expected to cost […]

A gun case was stolen during a home burglary last week in the Earles Grove Community of Oconee County.  The Sheriff’s Office requests information from the public to help solve what happened during the evening of June 22 at 110 Morgan Creek Drive.  Besides the weaponry, taken were a 40” to 42” black in color RCA flat screen TV, a […]

Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) testified this afternoon before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “Criminal Justice Reform and Efforts to Reduce Recidivism.”  The purpose of the hearing is to examine programs and legislation aimed at rehabilitating offenders, facilitating a successful transition from prison to community, and reducing recidivism.  Scott stressed the following factoid during his remarks:  […]

The cost of a valuable resource is headed upward in the town of Salem.  The town’s new budget of $1.4 million dollars calls for a water rate increase, both in and out of town, amounting to six percent.  There will be no property tax increase or other fee increase next year in Salem.  Town employees will not get a cost […]

Clemson University’s Holtzendorff Hall received a 2017 South Carolina Historic Preservation Honor Award for the restoration of the Italian Renaissance-style building designed by professor Rudolf Lee.  The awards were presented at the State House by Gov. McMaster and were sponsored by the Office of the Governor, the South Carolina Archives and History Foundation, the South Carolina Department of Archives and History […]

Estimates of repairs needed to a large downtown Seneca building are in the hands of attorneys, according to an announcement last night at City Hall.  Greg Dietterick, city administrator, said appraisals by the Rev. E-Haynes side have been turned over to city attorneys.  Dietterick calls it a “starting line” toward repairing the building—which has been a subject of years of […]