As officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of Hobby Lobby in Seneca on Monday, a line of customers waited in the rain for the store to open.

Two stores in the new Hartwell Village shopping center are planning to open next month, with more openings scheduled in the summer before Clemson University students return for the start of the fall semester.

The parent company of the Bi-Lo supermarket chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as 94 stores — including one each in Seneca and Clemson — are scheduled to be permanently closed by the end of the month.

President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imported steel has the potential to cost at least one Oconee County company millions of dollars.

U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan said Thursday he is working to help local companies impacted by tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on raw steel imported to the United States from China and other countries.

A new brewery with beer on tap, an indoor tasting room and an outdoor beer garden is scheduled to be up and running on East Main Street in downtown Seneca by the end of the year.

Bi-Lo stores in Seneca and Clemson are closing as part of a restructuring plan by supermarket owner Southeastern Grocers in which a total of 19 Bi-Lo locations in South Carolina are going out of business.

Local officials welcomed the projected April opening of a new Hobby Lobby store in Seneca as another example of continued economic development in Oconee County.

The 800 or so high school students arriving this week for the annual tour of the Hamilton Career Center got more than just a tour this year to help with their decisions about what courses to take next fall.

When Realtor Jocelyn Plum moved to the Upstate six years ago, there was a vague mention of the Oconee Young Professionals. She didn’t think twice about it, and the group slowly fizzled as organizers got busy and moved away.