Category: News

The agenda is set for a pair of Westminster city meetings next week.  Both will take place the evening of Tuesday, August 30 and one will follow the other.  At 6 o’clock the city council will receive a presentation with update recommendations on a utility rate study that was completed earlier this summer.  At 6:30 the council will convene a […]

During this year’s Fire Prevention Week the Keowee Fire Department, based at Keowee Key, invites the public for open house.  The event will be 11 am to 2 pm Saturday, October 8.  Brandon Shirley, assistant chief, says department personnel will be there to talk about pre-fire planning, the lockbox program, answer questions about call response, display equipment, and demonstrate special […]

Fire appears to have destroyed a two-story home last night in rural Oconee County.  Rural Fire Control reports that two adults and 11 children have been displaced as the result of the fire around 7:30 at 8541 Toccoa Highway (U-S 123) across from the New Madison Baptist Church.  No injuries are reported, but fire fighters were on the scene for […]

  A Seneca official unveiled a draft master plan for future use of the former Kellett Elementary School building and property.  Architectural renderings for the 12 acres amid a residential neighborhood show a new city museum, green space, along with a potential assisted living care facility about which a private developer has approached the city.  Greg Dietterick, city administrator, met […]

  Intersection improvements will require the temporary closing of a state secondary in Pickens County.  The work being done is at SC 183/the Farr’s Bridge Road and secondary 305-the Jim Hunt Road and will require the closing of the Jim Hunt Road for about three weeks—starting Wednesday, August 31.  Jim Hunt Road will be closed from SC-183 (Farrs Bridge Road) […]

Charges of domestic violence high and aggravated and failure to stop for a blue light were disposed of when a defendant pleaded guilty this morning in the Oconee General Sessions Court.  The cases against James Bradley Moody had been listed for a trial, but that changed when Moody entered the plea.  Judge Scott Sprouse pronounced a sentence that sends Moody […]

The office of Bob Faires, Seneca utilities director, recently vacated its ground floor City Hall location to move to a new location in the revamped Lowery Building on nearby N. Second Street.  Customers, however, continue to pay bills and conduct other business at City Hall. Occupying Faires’ former City Hall space is Ed Halbig, director of planning and community development.

At their meeting tomorrow, the Oconee Parks, Recreation and Tourism commissioners vote on awarding grants to spend the latest batch of accommodations tax funds generated for Oconee County use.  According to Phil Shirley, PRT executive director, about $65 thousand dollars is available.  Applying for the money are seven grant applications.  The commissioners’ vote, in the form of a recommendation to […]

Disappointment greets the announcement today of the scores from a test to measure readiness for college and career.  The 2016 scores of graduating seniors statewide show that only 14% of the graduates met the ACT college-ready benchmarks in English, Reading, Mathematics, and Science.  The average ACT composite score of 18.5 for SC students fell short of the national average of […]

The police in Seneca arrested three people on drug charges during the early hours of Monday morning in two different parts of the city.  Two Greenville County residents were arrested after the police stopped a car on the 123 By-Pass.  Multiple charges were placed against Dominic Frank Salerno of Simpsonville and Tracie Michelle Sargent of Taylors.  The police say they […]