Category: News

Walhalla Streetscape workers are on both sides of Main Street today.  They are continuing water line and demolition work on the south side of Main between Spring and Catherine streets.  They are also grading for new curbs on the north side between Ann and Spring.  Temporary striping was finished yesterday between Tugaloo and Catherine.  

Dentist Chuck Garbadian sat down last night for his first meeting as a member of board of the Oconee Medical Holdings.  Though hospital policy decisions are now made in Greenville, there remains a board of local and area residents who govern the properties on which the hospital provides care.  Dr. Garbadian received a welcome during last night’s meeting.  Two other […]

A year after the Greenville Hospital System merger, a local panel called the Oconee Medical Holdings Board of Directors remains the last vestige of official community involvement at Oconee Memorial Hospital.  Last night that board, chaired by Seneca’s Cecil Turner, held its first meeting after the one-year merger anniversary.  Turner and his colleagues heard an upbeat picture from Hunter Kome, […]

An early morning structure fire near Seneca.  A trailer home is believed to have been destroyed around 2:15 this morning in the vicinity of Shiloh Road and Mize Drive.

Former Community First banker Ben Hiott was sentenced Monday to 1 year and 1 day for bank fraud. More to come from 101.7 WGOG News.

Two o’clock is the appointed time this afternoon in Greenville for the sentencing of a Oconee former banker.  Benjamin Lee Hiott’s fate awaits him during a proceeding in the U-S District.  The former Community First banker faces legal troubles on a couple of fronts.  Besides the bank fraud charges that brought him to the federal criminal court, he’s a defendant […]

From Earles Grove into Anderson County.  That is the route a law enforcement pursuit followed during the weekend before a young Westminster man was arrested.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, the car driven by Evan Craig Andrus came to a stop behind the Townville Fire Department and the 21-year old Andrus was issued tickets for reckless driving and driving […]

In the words of someone in position to know, the acquisition of “two little buildings” nearly 40 years ago could have spared a major store from leaving Seneca’s downtown for a new shopping center.  And if the owners of those buildings were willing to make the deal, Gallant Belk Department Store might never have left the downtown, creating a hole […]

The Seneca police have announced details of the arrest late last week of a man accused of impersonating a federal law enforcement officer. The police arrested Christopher Scott Galbreath, 44-year old Seneca resident. An arrest affidavit charges that Galbreath posed on the telephone as a member of the U-S Marshall’s Service and threatened the arrest of individuals in a child […]