Betty Burrell Nichols

Seneca, SC — Betty Burrell Nichols, 88, wife of the late Verner Earl Nichols, passed away on Thursday, August 17, 2023 at the Residences at Park Place.   A native of Oconee County, Mrs. Nichols was the daughter of the late Charles Jess and Myrtle Lusk Burrell. She retired from JP Stevens and attended Bountyland Baptist Church for over 50 […]

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Tjay Bagwell is a gamer

An Oconee lawyer in his spare time has developed a card game for which he has hopes to market nationally.  Tjay Bagwell calls the game “Marvel Mastermind” and got the idea from accessing card and board games on the internet which prompted in him the idea that he could build a game.  And market it to a publisher with the […]

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Hotel room burglarized, arrest made

A 40-year old Columbia area woman was placed under arrest by the Seneca police and charged with burglarizing a local hotel room.  Arrest records allege Prosperity resident Kendra Nicole Tucker is accused of entering a Hampton Inn room around 3:30 Thursday morning on EN 1st Street and taking a college student’s backpack.  The backpack contained various school supplies worth $550 […]

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School bus accident subject of lawsuit

The South Carolina Department of Education is named the defendant in a civil lawsuit filed this week in Oconee County.  The complaint, filed by an Anderson attorney on behalf of Joel Paige Ward, alleges negligence on the part of a bus driver, Mark Jeffrey Drost, involved in an accident last year in Seneca. It alleges that, on or about February […]

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Motorcycle fatality identified

The Anderson County Coroner’s Office has identified a 65-year-old Liberty man as the fatality in a late Wednesday night accident near a roundabout at SC 88 and U-S 178.  Don McCown, chief deputy coroner, said Norval Ray Painter lost his life to traumatic injuries secondary to blunt force trauma when his motorcycle hit a fallen tree across 178.  The accident […]

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Just one yellow-legged hornet poses concern

Clemson University officials are urging South Carolina beekeepers and the public to be on the lookout for yellow-legged hornets after the invasive insect was discovered in the Savannah, Georgia, area. The Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) is reporting that a Savannah-area beekeeper found an unusual hornet on his property and reported it to the GDA. On August 9, 2023, the U.S. Department […]

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