“It’s going to be a tough year,” Moulder predicts

The effects of COVID-19, compounded by an EF3 tornado, add up to a difficult financial year ahead for Seneca.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, made discouraging budget projections last night to the mayor and council.  The city budgets for 2020-21 are taking a hit.  The general budget is projected to be $500 thousand smaller; the utilities, $100 thousand less.  The collection […]

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Emergency food and shelter money for Oconee

Money through the federal government is available to Oconee County to meet emergency food and shelter needs.  The United Way announces that a local board will decide how to allocate $48,461 from the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board and the “CARES” act of “FEMA”–the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  Local programs that work to fill food and shelter needs are […]

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Emergency grant for Seneca museum

South Carolina Humanities has awarded an emergency grant for Seneca’s Bertha Lee Strickland Cultural Museum.  It’s called a bridge grant and the money is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as part of the economic stabilization plan of the “CARES” law.  The grant is designed to help limited staff museums in this new normal move onto a virtual […]

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Edward “Eddie” Joseph Nichols

Edward “Eddie” Joseph Nichols, 79 of Seneca, South Carolina and formerly of Lansing, Michigan, and passed away May 25th, 2020, at National Health Care of Anderson. Eddie was born on December 26th, 1940 in Lansing, Michigan to Maner and Julia Nichols who preceded him in death. He was a graduate of the 1958 class of Resurrection High School in Lansing […]

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253 new cases, six more deaths

The Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced that 110,316 tests for COVID-19 have been performed in South Carolina since May 1. Earlier this month, DHEC and its community partners set a goal to test two percent of the state’s population, or 110,000 South Carolinians, by May 31. As of today, South Carolina has exceeded that goal. “We […]

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Senecan accused of impersonating law officer

An Oconee deputy signed an arrest warrant alleging that a Seneca man, Lee Lashon Goodine, impersonated a law enforcement officer.  Forty-five year old Goodine was arrested Memorial Day.  The arrest warrant alleges that on January 28, Goodine “unlawfully represented himself to Phillip Andrew Crowe as a law enforcement officer by identifying himself as Detective Lee, providing a badge number and […]

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“Absentee voting through the roof”

“Absentee voting is through the roof” is what the state election commission spokesman said today to an Oconee County Zoom audience.  Christ Whitmire appeared on an Oconee Chamber of Commerce news program, hosted by JoAnn Johnson.  According to Whitmire, the large numbers of voters choosing to vote absentee are directly attributable to the decision to open absentee voting to all […]

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No spring softball or baseball

Walhalla has joined other local and area municipalities who are cancelling baseball and softball seasons.  Here is the city’s announcement: “The City of Walhalla has reached a difficult decision and has opted to cancel its spring baseball and softball season, rather than force an abbreviated season. The intent of this cancellation remains the same as other city-wide actions; to minimize […]

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Walhalla added to community test sites

Prisma Health has announced six additional COVID-19 community testing events this week, including one offered in Manning, S.C., in partnership with McLeod Health and the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.   The community testing, primarily done in partnership with the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and state agencies, will reach populations who may not otherwise […]

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