Category: News

Growing Seneca’s city limits is front and center tonight at the City Hall.  At 6 o’clock the planning commission will hold a hearing on Hank Higgins’ request to annex 134 Indian Oaks Road—property owned by Crescent Communities.  Higgins is requesting an R-20 zoning classification be assigned to the property.

Students in several Clemson University organizations are taking spring break trips this week, but they won’t be going to the beach. They’ll be spending their time off volunteering to help others. Among their projects:  to help build a school for a community in Nepal; four undergraduate students and an assistant professor are going to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to continue […]

After six and half years, Bill Chiusano is saying goodbye to the Walhalla Civic Auditorium (WCA) as executive director. “I’m going to hang it up so to speak and let someone else have all the fun. I’ve had just about as much fun as I can handle in one lifetime, so yeah, June 30, 2017, I will be leaving the […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested an Oconee County man Wednesday evening on multiple charges related to a criminal sexual conduct with a minor case. 36-year-old David Leon Moore was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center on a temporary custody order until warrants were obtained by Sgt. Tim Rice, the Child/Elder Abuse Investigator, of the Sheriff’s Office. Arrest warrants […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation into a Wednesday evening domestic incident that resulted in a shooting. A deputy was dispatched to an address on Oconee Creek Road near Walhalla. When the deputy arrived on the scene, Scott Duane Cooper, was observed lying in the floor of the residence with a gunshot wound to his midsection. Cooper […]

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Seneca man Thursday on two drug warrants. 38-year old Ronnie Joe Patterson, Jr. of Curtis Drive was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center around 1:52 pm. Patterson, Jr’s arrest comes as a result of the execution of a high-risk search warrant that was executed at the Curtis Drive address. The search warrant […]

A Federal Grand Jury in Greenville returned an indictment against 38-year-old Matthew Vinson Leopard of Walhalla this week. United States Attorney Beth Drake says he was charged in a four-count indictment with possession of firearms by a prohibited person, possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The maximum penalty […]

United States Attorney Beth Drake announces that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville returned an indictment against 43-year-old Matthew Blake Sosby of Westminster. He was charged in a one-count indictment with felon in possession of a firearm. The maximum possible penalty Sosby could receive is a fine of $250,000 and/or imprisonment of 10 years. This case was investigated by agents […]

The Oconee County “C Fund” committee, charged with approving and dispensing state funds for local road projects, this morning approved $425,000 to create an exit at the property off U.S. 123 purchased by the county for a planned agriculture center, fair ground and farmer’s market. Oconee County administrator Scott Moulder, in making the county’s request said the actual cost could be […]

A truck driver called the Clemson Police Department Thursday morning at 6:25 am reporting icing on the bridge separating Clemson from Oconee County on Highway 123. Temperatures were well below freezing and the area was under a freeze warning at the time. The icing, according to the caller, was coming from water put off by a sprinkler across 123 from […]