Category: News

A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office says a bomb threat, communicated by email, is being investigated this afternoon at Clements Electrical in the Friendship Community near Seneca. The building on Friendship Road has been evacuated while personnel determine whether there is in fact a bomb or whether the email is a hoax.

The Seneca police say they found missing/runaway juvenile Ta’liyah Ethridge this morning, and she is safe. Chief John Covington says Ta’liyah has been placed by a relative through a DSS safety plan.

Among action items in front of South Carolina DHEC commissioners today in Columbia are penalities proposed for what inspectors say is a violation of waste tire regulations in Oconee County. Inspectors cited the owners of Mountain Rest property for storing about 300 waste tires. No more than 120 waste tires may be stored without first obtaining a permit to operate […]

A mother whose two children were on the playground the day Jesse Osborne opened fire says she’s feeling anger and her wish is that Osborne’s sentence will prevent him from ever leaving prison alive. Mary Olsen expressed her feelings to reporters yesterday after the guilty plea proceeding at the Anderson Courthouse. Olsen described her daughter as best friends with first […]

A special election to fill the opening on the 8-member Seneca City Council will take place March 12, 2019, according to Joy Scharich, the county director of elections. And those who aspire to fill what’ll remain in the unexpired term of Anthony Herman Smith officially file their candidacies between January 11 and January 22. Campaign signs in the windows of […]

The police in Seneca continue to look for a runaway juvenile age girl. She is Ta’liyah Ethridge. Ta’liyah was last seen Sunday walking on Pine Forest Circle. She’s 5-4, 115 lbs., last seen wearing a gray jacket. burgundy pants, yellow and green shoes, and a red bandana. The police say it’s believed she is with another juvenile, Mikey Haguewood. Any […]

If you were in the Seneca area or in northeast Georgia around 4:15 yesterday morning, you may have been rattled from your sleep. An earthquake rumbled through our area. According to the U-S Geologic Survey, the epicenter of 4.4 magnitude quake was just north of Chattanooga, Tennessee. USGS recorded an aftershock about 13 minutes later that registered 3.3. Toccoa’s WNEG […]

The population element is considered to be the foundation for other elements to be included in the new Oconee County comprehensive plan. And next week county planning commissioners will focus on the population element while they review the first draft. Two years ago, U-S Census pegged the number of Oconeeans at 75,375. With the next census in two years, there’s […]

U-S Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have seen their South Carolina Peanut Parity measure pass in both chambers of Congress, as part of a conference report to the 2018 Farm Bill. The provision places an individual from South Carolina on the Peanut Standards Board at the USDA. The legislation now goes to the desk of President […]

A two-year anniversary has been marked in Lavonia, Georgia of a day likely never to be forgotten in that northeast Georgia city as well in Franklin County. Two years ago, Capt. Michael Shulman and Officer Jeffrey Martin, were shot while conducting a traffic stop in a Zaxby’s parking lot. Shulman spent several days in the hospital as a result of […]