Seneca police quarters to be moved in 2023

In 2023, when Seneca marks 150 years of incorporation, the police can likely look forward to a new headquarters.  Part of the city’s industry complex on Shiloh Road, adjoining Utica, is under renovation to be the new home of the police department headquarters.  Once the chief, his staff, and the officers re-locate, their section of the former city hall downtown […]

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Sewer South costs addressed this week

Sewer South, piping sections of southern Oconee County with sewer, is faced with a price tag which makes county officials and other uncomfortable.  An Oakway resident, Tony Adams, complained that the current phase of the project comes with a 136% price tag above estimates and funds available.  So the matter was a discussion point at this week’s county council meeting […]

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Arrest in fee-tube money theft

The USDA Forest Service announces that a suspect has confessed to cutting the locks and taking money from about one dozen fee-tubes in National Forest lands.  A Forest Service officer on November 14 confronted the suspect and state warrants were obtained.  The suspect himself at the Abbeville County jail where he faces charges of malicious injury to property, theft of […]

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Civil trial settlement reached

As a 4-day Oconee trial was about to head to the jury for a verdict, a settlement was reached.  An officer of the Common Pleas Court this afternoon said, “Yes, the parties did come to a settlement agreement.  There are many different parts to the settlement, so the details will be available once the order is approved and signed by […]

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How Brandon Burton sees a new year in city government

Brandon Burton draws on something that a former U-S cabinet member once said about government service.  Burton, Walhalla city administrator, referenced Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary, saying, “few if any individuals choose public service because they want to make life miserable for people or work for some hapless bureaucracy.”  Burton says, “This is something that I believe to be true; […]

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