Author: Dick Mangrum

Schneider Electric operations in Oconee and Richland counties are in line for an expansion.  Announcement this morning from the South Carolina Department of Commerce says it’s to be a combined investment of $23.8 million and 280 new jobs throughout this year.  Schneider’s Oconee facility on the Sandifer Boulevard makes low-voltage motor control centers, panelboard box and trim, and lighting and […]

City of Clemson has gone into Pickens County Court of Common Pleas with a lawsuit against a Florence County man.  The lawsuit, entered last week, accuses Jesse Daniel Holladay of unlawfully entering a city-owned utilities plant on the Cochran Road during the early morning hours April 23, 2022 and stealing a 2014 Ford F-150 truck.  It further alleges that Holladay, […]

Clemson Area Transit (“CAT”) holds a public hearing this morning in Clemson.  The free passenger bus service is changing the Walmart/SWU/Central Route as the result of a budget cut by Southern Wesleyan.  If you’d like to attend the hearing, it starts at 10 this morning at CATbus headquarters, 200 West Lane, Clemson.

South Carolina Housing is alerting vulnerable households to a false online claim that the waitlist is opening to SC Housing’s Section 8/Housing Choice Voucher Program.  The false claim circulating on social media, including Facebook pages and flyers, announces that “South Carolina Housing Authority” has opened or will be opening the Section 8 waitlist for properties around the state, and requests […]

In one week, the new South Carolina Department of Public Health officially begins serving the people of South Carolina.  Legislative act #60 establishes the health component of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control with the mission to protect, promote and improve the health and well-being of everyone in South Carolina.  The major divisions of the new Department of […]

Sunday’s motorcycle fatality in rural Pickens County has been identified as a Greer, South Carolina resident — Austin Blake Smith.  The deputy Pickens County coroner, Tommy Page, says motorcyclist Smith collided with a second vehicle on highway 11 and was thrown into the guardrail.  At the time, Smith was helmeted and wearing appropriate safety gear.  He was pronounced dead of […]

An automotive supplier, with headquarters in Germany, has chosen Pickens County for its first South Carolina operations.  According to the announcement, ElringKlinger will make a $40 million investment and create 115 new jobs in a new facility at 3800 Calhoun Memorial Highway, Easley.  The operation will manufacture electric battery cell contacting systems.  Worldwide ElringKlinger has 44 manufacturing locations.  At Easley, […]