Category: News

The public is invited this week to a meet-and-greet event for two new Westminster officials.  They are Kevin Bronson, city administrator; and Leigh Baker, director of utilities.  The event takes place 5:30 to 7 pm Thursday at Gossett Hall, 204 Isundega Street.  Mask wearing is required.

On World AIDS Day tomorrow, South Carolina DHEC will sponsor free tests at local health departments.  At no cost, you can be tested for HIV, STDs, and Hepatitis C.  By the end of 2018, there were more than 20 thousand South Carolinians living with diagnosed HIV infection.  A top DHEC official said, “Every county in the state has residents living […]

West Union has announced that its annual Christmas parade will be 5 o’clock Saturday afternoon, December 12.  This parade is centered on the theme of American flags.  It will start on Hunter Street and wind up across from the Mountain View restaurant on W. Main.  According to policeman Michael Shedd, vehicles that’ll be in the parade should line up on […]

In the South Carolina DHEC report issued yesterday, 1,053 additional, confirmed cases of COVID-19 were noted, along with seven more deaths.  There were no new deaths among Oconee County residents, but there were 25 new cases.  Total test results received by the state health agency statewide Saturday were 8,279; the positivity, 12.7%.

Looks like nature will cooperate for Seneca Christmas parade time at 6 o’clock tonight.  Although the forecast is cold, conditions are expected to be clear.  If it’s the Monday following Thanksgiving, you can pretty well count on the time and date for Santa and the rest of the crowd to make their way through the downtown streets.  Mr. Parade Chairman, […]

Thanksgiving weekend numbers are adding up to a sad distinction for South Carolina’s effort to tamp down the number of those infected by the world pandemic.  Published numbers today from DHEC indicate that the state has now exceeded 200,000 COVID-19 cases (201,354).  The death toll is now 4,043.  Friday and Saturday reports showed an almost identical number of confirmed virus […]

Graded property next to the Walhalla Zaxby’s is the subject for rumors of future development, with the more popular rumor being that it’s destined to be a Dairy Q restaurant. For now, that’s not the case, according to a spokesman for the Dairy Queen company.  Jamie Izaks of All Points public relations says, “International Dairy Queen is a growing company […]

New business and property owners have begun to invest in Seneca’s commercial district downtown.  Now city government is responding with a move to enhance the looks of its core commercial area.  The Light and Water Department has begun a project to bury electric power lines running along N. and S. Walnut to the railroad crossing.  “Number one is aesthetics,” says […]

On Thanksgiving Eve, the state health agency has added an additional 1,243 cases to its COVID-19 count, including 38 from Oconee County.  Statewide there are four new deaths reported.  Total test results received by DHEC yesterday were 8,991; a positivity of 13.8%.  On this day, many people were lined up to be tested at Prisma Health’s drive-up at the front […]

The state police are announcing the arrest of a Seneca woman on the charge of arson second degree.  The affidavit to the arrest warrant charging Andrea Dawn Sabino alleges that between November 15-16 the 49-year old Sabino “willfully and maliciously caused an explosion, set fire, burned, or caused to be burned or aid, counsels, or procured a burning that resulted […]