Category: News

Two spring sport athletes at West-Oak High School will take part in state all-star competition.  They are baseball pitcher Kurt Rogers and softball pitcher Kalen ‘Tate’ Sosby. Kurt is only the seventh Warrior in West-Oak’s approximate 40-year history to make the roster for the North/South All Star game.  Tate is the sixth softballer from her school chosen as a North/South […]

Seneca’s first-year police chief, Casey Bowling, will be the guest speaker at tomorrow’s meeting of the Seneca Rotary Club.

Within the last hour, Seneca’s WN 1st Street in the vicinity of The Journal is a car accident scene.  Emergency vehicles were at the scene.  The accident is believed to have involved a SUV.

On the one-year anniversary of the George Floyd murder, Senator Tim Scott joined two of his  colleagues in this statement:  “One year ago, George Floyd’s murder awakened millions of people around the world who had never before witnessed the deadly consequences in our policing system.  This anniversary serves as a painful reminder of why we must make meaningful change.  While […]

A man wounded by gunfire yesterday near Easley was sent to the hospital.  He was wounded in what the state police say was an incident involving him and Anderson County sheriff’s deputies.  Announcement by “SLED” indicates shots were exchanged between officers and an armed man as the deputies attempted a welfare check following a domestic dispute.  At the request of […]

At their next meeting, Walhalla planning commissioners will discuss the city’s moratorium against new “box” or discount stores inside the city limits.  The planning commission meeting will be 5:30 pm Monday, June 14 at City Hall.  Last week a group of citizens interested in Walhalla gave the mayor and council and others an earful about whether box or discount stores […]

On Pete Dimopolous land cleared for development, Clemson Eye’s new location will be Union Station Drive off 123 in Oconee County.  The plans for the eye and medical business to re-locate its Tiger Boulevard, Clemson location west into Oconee were confirmed yesterday by Courtney Mitchell, director of marketing for at Eye Health America.  Mitchell says current plans call for a […]

The death of an elderly Oconeean May 18 was confirmed the result of COVID-19 and announced by DHEC on its report this afternoon.  The Oconee death was one of six reported by the state health agency for the 24-hour count that finished late Saturday night.  New confirmed cases statewide numbered 210, eleven of them in Oconee County.  Of 8,715 test […]

A traffic stop during the 2 o’clock hour this morning in Seneca prompted the police to file two charges against the driver, a resident of Royston, Georgia.  In the traffic stop at WN 1st and Fairplay streets, the police allege David Shane Spears had an open container of alcohol.  Beneath a blanket in the bed of the truck, according to […]

  An Oconee General Sessions Court jury has been sworn and instructed to report to their courthouse meeting room by 9 tomorrow morning to prepare for a trial in which a man is charged by the state with violating the drug laws.  It’s the case of South Carolina v. Derek Wayne Gibson, charged with trafficking methamphetamine.  Judge Sprouse this morning […]