Category: News

Parking lots of Seneca motels appear full this morning, as word spreads that evacuees from the low state and midlands have booked practically all available rooms across the state.  In advance of Hurricane Matthew, Governor Haley yesterday ordered an evacuation of the coastal areas.

The police are classifying a late morning crash at Seneca’s Miracle Circle as a hit-run accident.  The police are looking for a gold, 4-door SUV and its driver who they say sidewiped a Chrysler.  No one was hurt.  Capt. Robert Tribble says it’s believed the SUV headed on 123 in the direction of Westminster.

Organizers of the return of this weekend’s Road Titans bicycle run competition in Oconee County and other parts of the Upstate are receiving cancellations from some of the entrants because of the advance of Hurricane Matthew.  Sending their regrets are some of the cyclists who were coming from Florida.  Still, Ken Sloan of the Mountain Lakes CVB, says there will […]

A 22-year old man whom the Seneca police had sought in their investigation of a business burglary a year ago has been located in a Pennsylvania jail.  The police department’s suspect in crimes committed October 1, 2015 at Riley Motors on E-N 1st Street was returned yesterday and placed in the Oconee jail.  Chief John Covington says his department’s warrant […]

As Hurricane Matthew threatens the southeastern United States, Governor Nikki Haley today ordered an evacuation of coastal areas in and around Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina. Residents and visitors in Charleston and Beaufort Counties should begin evacuating no later than 3:00 PM TODAY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5. Residents and visitors in certain parts of bordering coastal counties – Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester and […]

For a DHEC worker in Columbia, travel has been cancelled.  Tomorrow night’s forum at the Duke’s Oconee World of Energy, sponsored by “FOLKS”–the Friends of Lake Keowee, has been called off.  Ben Turetsky says the event will be re-scheduled.   DHEC’s James Glover was to have been the main speaker.

For staff training purposes, all branches of the Oconee Public Library are closed today.  But the hurricane that is on track to pass thru the state between Charleston and Columbia has created bumper-to-bumper traffic for evacuees.  The traffic situation in the Capital city has forced Joe Ryan of the Attorney’s General Office to cancel his talk to Oconee library workers […]

This is South Carolina Lions Sight and Hearing Conservation Week in Seneca, as proclaimed by Mayor Dan Alexander.  Thursday through Saturday members of the Seneca Lions Club will be stationed in front of the Wal-Mart, providing candy for donations to buy glasses and hearing aids for people in need.  World Sight Day is Thursday, October 13.

Thorny and poisonous plants that occupied two valued acres of Clemson University real estate has been swept from its stronghold.  The credit goes to goats and human beings who worked together in a coalition.  Clemson now considers a once-impenetrable stretch of forest to be beautiful again.  Faculty, students and tailgaters frequent its borders.  For a third year, a herd of […]