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A substitute NE Georgia teacher was arrested Wednesday and charged by Hart County Sheriff’s Office with public intoxication.  According to Lake Hartwell WLHR Radio, Sheriff Chris Carroll confirmed the arrested of Kimberly Lavamita Boseman, 54. The spokesman for Hart County Charter System, the principal at North Hart Elementary was alerted at 2:40 pm to a substitute teacher demonstrating atypical behavior.  […]

South Carolina DOT for one more week will accept public comment on the planned improvement work at Seneca’s East End intersection.  DOT officials returned to Columbia  with a number of comments registered at a public information meeting at city hall.  One Seneca official indicated that “legitimate concerns” will lead the state agency to revise plans for the 123 By-Pass at […]

A DOT official says a contractor will return to SC 130 between Dug Hollow Road and the turn toward Salem at Keowee Key.  Sections of the two-lane road received full-depth patching, but a member of the Oconee’s state “C” Fund Committee is dissatisfied with quality of the patching.  The “C” Fund Committee’s Richard Cottingham registered the complaint yesterday and elicited […]

The town of Central announces a patch work project has finished on S-15, the Madden Bridge Road, from Mauldin Road to SC 133/the Six Mile Highway.  The patch work now must cure and harden.  No later than November, Madden Bridge Road is to be milled and repaved.

Two regulatory bodies of Seneca government meet on Monday and Tuesday next week and are to consider annexing a business address off SC 28/the Blue Ridge Boulevard.  On Monday night the planning commission consider a general commercial zoning classification for Midgard Self Storage at 1448 Blue Ridge Boulevard.  The next night, as part of its March work session, the city […]

Until further notice, Walhalla has issued a boil advisory for water customers in the Picket Post area.  According to the city, a contractor took out a line that created an outage until city crews made repairs and restored service. The advisory applies to customers on Fairfield Road, Earlestead Road, Forest Acres Circle, White Cut Road, Santeee Drive, Pickett Post Road […]

Brush fires in parts of Oconee yesterday proved a nemesis to property owners and responding fire fighters.  Between Seneca and Westminster the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative, out of precaution, cut power in the vicinity of a brush fire, an outage that affected customers on the Armstrong Road.  A BREC spokesman said, “We turned off the power on those lines so […]

A Facebook post by the South Carolina Education Lottery announces that a player won $50 thousand ticket at a Westminster store by playing the $2 Millionaire game.

The first thing that Lekesha Benson looked for when she walked into a Seneca church today was an AED — a defibrillator.  After losing a son to a sudden cardiac death, the heart health of young people is on her mind.  She co-founded NOLA — No Other Life Affected.  Benson and her staff today received a $5 thousand check from […]

The South Carolina Forestry Commission is issuing a statewide Red Flag Fire Alert, effective immediately until further notice. The Commission plans to reevaluate conditions Sunday.   The alert is being issued to strongly discourage people from burning outdoors when weather conditions present an elevated risk of wildfire.   A cold front moving across the state today will usher in low […]