Oconee employer to hold hiring event

Job seekers who’d be interested in work at a large manufacturing plant near Seneca are invited to take part in a virtual hiring event tomorrow morning. The Seneca location of BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions is hiring full-time production technicians and full-time apprentices. Interested applicants can see all open positions in Seneca at www.basf.com/seneca.  Apprentices can count on $22.50 […]

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Just who buys land near U-S military bases

Tim Scott, South Carolina Republican, is a co-sponsor of “Protect Our Bases Act” — a bill that ensures a legislative committee may review foreign land purchases near sensitive military, intelligence, and national laboratory sites by requiring agencies to update and review their locations.  Scott, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, says, “The Chinese Communist […]

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Recognizing a utility challenge

Serious discussion is the way the boss of Seneca utilities describes the challenge to satisfy developers of a new and proposed mixed-use development west of the city.  But the new owner of 148 acres held only recently by a South Carolina children’s home is thinking in terms of a combination commercial and residential development off the Sandifer Boulevard.   Bob Faires, […]

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Manhunt ends with arrest of shooting suspect

A five-hour manhunt ended last night at Toccoa, Georgia with the arrest of a 26-year old man accused of firing a weapon at a resident on Christine Circle, a incident law enforcement described as an altercation between residents.  The Stephens County sheriff, Randy Shirley, said bullets struck a patrol vehicle, but no one was hurt in the entire ordeal. However, […]

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A political declaration

Matthew Durham wishes to make it a second, four-year term.  The Mountain Rest Republican and council chairman has declared his intention to seek his party’s nomination to run next year for re-election.  Durham embraces the term “staunch Conservative” and the principles of private property rights, sound fiscal management, strategic budgeting, and public safety.

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