Category: News

By the deadline on Friday, Walhalla was left with two ballot candidates for the city’s special April 13 election to fill the vacant city council seat.  The candidates are political newcomers:  Christy Marlow and Gwen Owens.  City voters next month will cast ballots to fill the seat held by the late Dennis Owens’, husband of Gwen Owens.

The multi-county electric power retailer Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative will accept nominees next week to fill three positions on its board of directors.  One of those positions will represent Oconee County customers on Blue Ridge’s policy board.  Blue Ridge customers inside District #1 (Oconee County) are invited to attend a 10 o’clock Monday morning, March 8 meeting at the Co-Op […]

Seneca welcomes the start-up of a pair of separate downtown businesses, not only from an historic standpoint.  Scott Moulder, city administrator, told yesterday’s Black History Tea that the pair of startups—one by an African-American and the other by a Latina—not only as progress in the city’s efforts to re-vitalize the downtown business district, but as an eye-opener when it comes […]

Changes are being made in Seneca hiring practices to give minorities greater opportunity at landing city jobs.  Both the police chief and the city administrator promised those tuned to yesterday’s zoom meeting arranged by the Oconee NAACP branch on the final day of Black History Month.  The city’s new police chief, Casey Bowling, promises a colorblind approach as his department […]

Scott Moulder, Seneca city administrator, announces that “contracts are in place” to develop a mixed-use development in the Utica community on the property that sported a textile plant for around 100 years.  During a meeting yesterday, Moulder said developers are interested in a combination residential and commercial project on the S. 6th Street property.  He spoke during the annual Black […]

On today’s DHEC report, 1,197 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in South Carolina, including 24 in Oconee County.  Added to the statewide death toll:  35 South Carolina residents.  Of 26,779 test results received from the state, the positivity was 7%.  

DHEC reports 1,086 new cases statewide, 17 in Oconee County.  Added to the virus death total in the state:  27 individuals, but none from Oconee.  Of the total 32,875 new test results received, the state positivity rate was 5.1%.

On Thursday, February 25, 2021, the Seneca Police Department was made aware of a phone scam in our local area. The scam consists of callers stating they are with the Seneca Police Department. They are trying to get social security numbers. According to Police Chief Casey Bowling, these individuals are calling from “unknown” numbers. Please do not give them any […]

A new plant, named Shealy’s Saxifrage, has been discovered in Pickens County by a group of local botanists. Patrick McMillan, Larry Cushman, and Vincent Richards named the species after long-time professor Dr. Harry Shealy at the University of South Carolina. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said that the little white flower with yellow and red highlights can be […]

The Oconee NAACP Chapter’s annual Black History Tea, a luncheon held each year in the Seneca Family Life Institute’s Auditorium, will be a virtual event this year. The event will be streamed live via Zoom on Sunday, organizers said. Mayor Dan Alexander, Police Chief Casey Bowling, City Administrator Scott Moulder and Council Member Rev. WC Honeycutt are scheduled to be […]