Category: News

Bob Brock’s friends and co-workers are saluting him at a drop-in reception this afternoon at the Oconee County administrative office complex.  Brock chaired the Oconee Board of Voter Registration and Elections, but is retiring after 37 years.  The Walhallan is considered one of the longester serving election board members in South Carolina history.

A Greenville man turned himself over to the Seneca police and is facing charges arising from a home burglary last week at a home on the 100 block of E-S 4th Street.  Until the arrest last night of 41-year old Joshua Stafford, the police were investigating the burglary in which someone appeared to have kicked in a back door and […]

The School District of Oconee’s program of school resource officers will receive the 2017 South Carolina School Resource Officer’s Program Award.  The planning team of the “Moving Forward Together National Summit” gives the award next month during a meeting in Columbia.    Oconee’s is one of two programs in the state to be selected thru a vetting process by the South […]

A company with U-S and international locations has been identified as the developer behind a planned student housing project in far eastern Oconee near the Clemson campus.  The Oconee Economic Alliance director’s report today said Valeo Groupe US plans an academic mixed-use village of cottages, townhomes, and apartments for college students and some faculty members on 60 acres off 123 […]

  The clearing of trees to make room for Oconee’s Workforce Development Center has changed the landscape of the Information and Technology Park on highway 11.  Richard Blackwell of the Economic Alliance showed pictures this morning of the moving of what is to be one million cubic yards of dirt to shape the property for the Tri-County Tech campus, the […]

Expansions planned by Jantzen, Itron, and Schneider Electric in Oconee mean new jobs and greater economic investment in Oconee County.  Employers who are hiring are shrinking the Oconee County jobless rate.  As economic development recruiter Richard Blackwell was describing Oconee’s jobless rate at 4%–regarded as, in effect, a fully-employed workforce—the state was announcing new unemployment numbers.  For Oconee, in April, […]

A Casto company official identified five stores for which there is agreement to build in Hartwell Village.  Tom Lowell of Casto’s Raleigh, North Carolina office told a meeting this morning at the Hamilton Career Center that stores secured so far are Michael’s, Marshall’s, Ulta, 5 Below, and Rack Room Shoes.  But Lowell hints at more to come, as well as […]

Area law enforcement officers will be treated to lunch today at the BorgWarner Automotive plant at Seneca—as part of the nationwide Law Enforcement Appreciation Week.  They’ll get a tour of the manufactring plant that supplies major carmakers.  

  After the next nationwide census, in 2020, the Seneca area may become slotted into what today is “GPATS”—the Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation organization.  If that happens, it’s likely a reflection of the changes that are taking place in the Seneca area, especially near Clemson, that reflect more residents, more traffic, and more development.  Ed Halbig, Seneca’s planning and community development […]

Blue Ridge Bank seeks to fill the void that First Citizens will create next week in Westminster.  According to a newspaper legal ad, Blue Ridge has asked the FDIC to be allowed to open a branch office at 200 W. Windsor Street.  In a notice to First Citizens customers, area executive Chuck Perry said, “After carefully and thoroughly evaluating the […]