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The Clemson Palmetto Poll predicts Joe Biden will win the South Carolina Democratic primary with 35% of the vote and Tom Steyer will come in second with 17%.  The poll results were announced in the Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University.  The poll is a statewide public opinion survey aiming to understand attitudes, behaviors and characteristics of South Carolina […]

A zoning appeal involving 400 Loran Pointe Circle, Seneca will be heard at 6 tonight at City Hall. Before the city’s appeals board is an application from Bryant Puntch pertaining to property owned by Keowee Pointe Development LLC.

A service to remember the late Dr. John Martin of Seneca will take place at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon, March 7 on the side lawn of the Lunney Museum. Martin was a former museum director and promoter of culture in his adopted city. The March 7 service will feature a few speakers, a song, and a prayer. And, afterward, there […]

A male described as clean cut and well dressed is suspected of having tried to pull a scam early yesterday afternoon at a home near High Falls Park and the Stamp Creek Landing. Oconee Sheriff’s Office quotes the resident there as saying his visitor held himself out to be a Medicare specialist and then proceeded to ask for personal identifying […]

The man accused of taking a wire mesh strainer from the Seneca Wal-Mart and running out of the store past the cash registers has been convicted in the General Sessions Court. The jury found Curtis J. Bearden guilty of shoplifting enhancement. Judge McIntosh ordered a 10-year prison term, suspended to 30 months of home incarceration, followed by five years probation. […]

A man accused of stealing a wire mesh strainer from the Seneca Wal-Mart will allow an Oconee jury to decide his fate, without putting up any defense. Curtis J. Bearden today decided not to testify, and his attorney called no witnesses. Bearden’s was a brief one-day trial in which prosecution witnesses accused him of being the man who put the […]

A West Union man wanted by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office has been found in central Florida, and deputies went to Polk County between Orlando and Tampa to retrieve him. Among the charges against Charles Whitney Batts is escape. Fifty-seven year old Batts is accused of cutting off his ankle monitor on I-85 in Georgia. In December, the Burnt Tanyard Road […]

The mayor and city council in Westminster received their copies of the city’s audit covering 2018-2019, along with an explanation from David Phillips of the Green Finney firm. The word “unmodified” was used to sum up the opinion of how outside eyes see the city’s handing of its monies. “Unmodified opinion is kind of a strange term,” Phillips said last […]

The start for a new recreation complex in Westminster, at the least, has been delayed.  But another Oconee municipality is moving forward to expand its recreation opportunities.  After a closed-door meeting, Seneca City Council last night voted to buy 30 acres adjoining its Shaver Recreation Complex.  The city’s main recreation facility is bordered by an apartment project on one side […]

New Westminster councilmen may want to reclaim property on which the mayor’s cabin sits, but it’s apparently easier said than done. The city council last night re-visited the long-running controversy in which a cabin owned by the mayor sits on city property alongside the Chauga River although, at one point, the city gave the mayor one year to remove it. […]