Author: Dick Mangrum

  Wal-Mart next week becomes another of major American stores to require facial coverings for everyone inside their buildings.  The company has more than five thousand U-S locations, and one is located near Seneca on the Sandifer Boulevard.  On a day last week when we looked, many customers at the Seneca store shopped without wearing face coverings.  The start of […]

Talk about COVID-19 will pick back up next week at a special meeting of the Westminster City Council.  It’s one of several items for a meeting planned for 5 o’clock Wednesday evening, July 22 in the training room at the city fire department.  The name of Councilman Brad Chastain is linked with the agenda item.  Last week Chastain implored his […]

Oconee County recycling centers are now accepting glass for re-cycling.  But you can help prevent contamination and enhance the safety of the workers by first cleaning both the glass and the lids.  An increase in municipal waste and recycling materials has led to longer wait times, so recycling center visitors are requested to be patient.  At this time, they still […]

Pipeline work at Clemson’s Cochran Road will divert the Red Route of Clemson Area Transit.  The “CAT” bus will not drive on either Cochran or Lindsey roads.  Instead the Red-Central route bus will proceed on Old Central Road to Clemson Street, turn right onto Calhoun Street.  From there, the bus follows its regular route.

Seneca’s board of zoning appeals will consider a change to the city’s zoning regulations.  On the agenda for a board meeting tonight is a variance request from Michael and Susan McCalister for their property at 127 Julian Drive.  The City Hall hearing will start at 6 o’clock tonight.

An early afternoon accident near Westminster turned fatal for the driver of a pickup truck. Authorities say Rachel Ann Barker, 73-year old Seneca resident, died at the scene of the crash of her pickup truck and a car.  Trooper Gary Miller called it a head-on crash on SC 24, the West-Oak Highway, two miles south of Westminster near Blue Haven […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) today announced 1,850 new confirmed cases and five new probable cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, no additional confirmed deaths and five new probable deaths. There are currently 1,560 hospital beds occupied by patients who have either tested positive or are under investigation for COVID-19, and 206 of those patients […]

A Naval officer from Seneca is aboard a U-S vessel in the Indo-Pacific region, and he serves as the command chaplain.  He’s Lt. Cmdr. Jason Sluder on board the USS Germantown, part of an America Expeditionary Strike Group, operating in the 7th Fleet area.

Governor McMaster’s news conference was followed today by Oconee public school officials.  The governor wants school districts to offer five-day-a-week, face-to-face instruction, as well  give families the option for their children to take distance learning. That jibes with what Oconee district officials are planning.  But there is a difference. McMaster believes districts should consider starting after Labor Day, to give […]