Category: News

Four months after a worker’s death in Seneca, the report of an investigation of his death remains incomplete, according to a spokeswoman for the applicable state agency. Lesia Kudelka, ombudsman and communications director for the state Department of Labor and Licensing Regulation, said she checked yesterday for the status of the death investigation report from the Occupational Health and Safety […]

A music performance will help raise money tonight to pay for Seneca High School’s prom. Everyone is invited to hear Seneca’s own Sam Burchfield and his band in the school auditorium. Burchfield’s band includes some of Seneca’s talented students. Doors open at 6:30.

Seneca’s first ATAX (Accommodations Tax) advisory committee organized during its first meeting, with five of its seven members in attendance. At the start, city financial director Joel Seavey announced the city council-appointed committee became necessary once the city’s ATAX receipts exceeded $50 thousand a year. It will be the committee’s duty to consider grants to organizations that use the money […]

A statement this afternoon from Dr. Michael Thorsland, Oconee superintendent of education, says, “It has been determined that there was hazing.” And the Walhalla police continue to investigate as to whether criminal charges are appropriate. Thorsland’s statement also says district administration is proceeding with disciplinary action and “the students are no longer on the soccer team.” Earlier five Walhalla soccer […]

A 32-year old Akron, Ohio man has been arrested as the result of an investigation conducted by Oconee sheriff’s officers Tuesday afternoon near U-S 123 and Sheep Farm Road. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Brandon Todd Stewart was arrested and charged with distributing methamphetamine after a call from a Sandifer Boulevard business about two people acting suspiciously inside a red […]

Oconee General Sessions Court defendant Mark Eldon Staton was ordered today to serve a four-year prison term for larceny and drug offenses, to which he entered guilty pleas. Staton attributed his behavior to “being stupid and having a bad habit.” He told Judge Lawton McIntosh that he apologizes to the owner of the stolen trailer, a person who he said […]

The Westminster Branch of the Oconee Public Library will close for one week next month to allow for the paving and re-construction of its parking lot. The work schedule, from April 6 through the 11th, will depend on the weather. All other branches of the library system will remain open. The library staff and the board of trustees request your […]

The Seneca police have filed charges of fraud against a 29-year old inmate in Pickens County. The police yesterday obtained warrants charging Atlanta area resident Richard Mark Springer with financial transaction card fraud and crimes against a federally-chartered financial institution. The offenses are alleged to have occurred in January at South State Bank when the suspicions of bank employees were […]

The office of Oconee Veterans Affairs has an idea of how many service men and women from the Second World War remain survivors today in Oconee County, but no idea of how many survive from a later war in a small country 10 thousand miles away. Nevertheless, V-A Officer Jerry Dyar expects a large turnout in Seneca Saturday of Vietnam […]

A car left Albert’s Road near Sheep Farm Road near Seneca and struck a bridge post. A responder tells 96.3/WGOG NEWS no one hurt in this morning’s 4 o’clock accident. At the time, the small car carried an adult driver and a child.