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The Western Upstate Association of Realtors will return to Seneca tomorrow to take applications for grants of up to $1 thousand to help victims of the April 13 tornado.  If you are a victim and would like to make application, you can do this between the hours of 1 o’clock and 5 o’clock tomorrow afternoon at the Ann Hope United […]

A theft late last week was partially solved when the Oconee Sheriff’s Office recovered a utility trailer on S. Walnut Street near Seneca. Evidence showed that at 7:19 Friday morning last week, a male backed up a Honda Passport to a self-storage business near Seneca, hooked up, and stole a utility trailer.  The theft took place at Greenleaf Self Storage, […]

On this last day to vote in-person absentee, many Oconee voters have waited to make their choices.  The elections director, Joy Scharich, this afternoon said there have been “lines out the door” since 8:30 this morning at the county’s absentee voter precinct at Pine Street.

Another protest has taken place in Seneca.  This one was last night and, according to one police estimate, between 40 and 50 people took part.  Like the others since they started a week ago, last evening’s protest was peaceful.  The focus on potential change will center tonight at a community center in the Perry Hill neighborhood of Seneca, where a […]

Presumptive nominee Joe Biden is now said to have secured enough delegates to win his party’s nomination this summer at convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  But one of Bernie Sander’s young supporters, an Oconee County woman, remains loyal to Bernie Sanders’ campaign.  And Cody Hunter will find herself in position to call attention to Sanders because 32-year old Hunter has been […]

Law enforcement authorities are reporting and confirming mail theft incidents late last week outside post offices in parts of Oconee and Anderson counties.  According to Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw and his white-collar crime investigator Amanda Tinsley, mail-drop boxes were broken into Thursday night at the following Oconee County post offices:  Seneca and Richland.  Mail was also stolen from the drop […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Friday announced 447 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and 13 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 13,453 and those who have died to 538. Eleven deaths occurred in elderly individuals from Clarendon (1), Greenville (1), Horry (1), Orangeburg […]

Contract crews for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority have repaired a sewer line leak that forced the temporary shutdown of a pump station near Seneca.  Described as pinhole size, the leak is estimated to have dumped 10 thousand gallons of sewage in the area of Wells Highway, not far from 123, the Seneca-Clemson corridor.  The repair job last evening took […]

The annual Westminster High School Gathering will not take place this year, but alumnus Rolann Lee is hopeful that the gathering will be able to return next year.  The annual get together of those who went to what used to be Westminster High School is held the Saturday before Labor Day.  Because of COVID-19, however, not this year.

West Union’s elected leaders are to discuss and vote next week on the town’s new tax rate.  They’ll go into their Tuesday meeting with a letter from the state Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office that addresses the cap that must be placed on any tax increase voted for the new government year, 2020-21.  In a May 22 letter Frank Rainwater, […]