Author: Dick Mangrum

A three-vehicle crash this morning on I-85 in Oconee County left the northbound lanes blocked temporarily but resulted in no injuries to those involved.  Chief Larry Wilkerson of the responding Fair Play Fire Department said the van driver was especially lucky.  His vehicle struck a tractor-trailer and a pickup truck with a utility bed and sustained heavy front end damage […]

Emergency Services personnel from Oconee grabbed biscuit and a coffee and then it was off for a second day to help North Carolina authorities search for a missing person at Whitewater Falls.  Public safety responders searched the North Carolina side of the falls last night for a person who, it’s believed, fell into the water.

Retail customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative can look forward to checks in the mail to cover their pro-rata share of the settlement of a lawsuit which named Blue Ridge’s wholesale supplier a co-defendant. According to a court-authorized notice that has gone out in the form of letters to Blue Ridge customers, customers who are due checks don’t have […]

FEMA–the Federal Emergency Management Agency–is now accepting applications from Seneca and Oconee County residents whose properties sustained damage from the April EF3 tornado.  There are three ways to make application.  Call 800/621-3362. (Those who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability and use a TTY may call 800/462-7585.  Language translators are available.) Online by logging onto DisasterAssistance.gov.  […]

Westminster officials have been notified by the mayor that the controversial cabin no longer sits on city property. The placement by Mayor Ramey of a personal cabin on city property along the Chauga River has been a sore point with city council members. According to one councilman, the mayor sent a communication announcing the cabin has been moved and a […]

As many as 400 customers of the Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative are reported without service as the result of the early morning storm that passed through the upstate.  During the thunder and lightning storm, fire fighters rushed to at least three homes where lightning strikes were reported:  Strawberry Farm Road near Seneca, Deer Ranch Road near the Oconee Regional Airport, […]

Starting today, Prisma Health will allow one support person per patient undergoing outpatient procedures requiring anesthesia or moderate/deep sedation, such as surgery, endoscopy and radiology. The change in policy applies to all Prisma Health hospitals and facilities where outpatient procedures are performed. Due to COVID-19 precautions, Prisma Health’s restricted visitor policy will remain in effect, and visitors will not be […]

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control Monday announced 135 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, and 8 additional deaths. This brings the total number of people confirmed to have COVID-19 in South Carolina to 6,757 and those who have died to 283. Six of those deaths occurred in elderly individuals in Clarendon (1), Greenville (2), Horry […]

Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette believes that today’s lift of the “Work or Stay Home” order is one relaxation that South Carolinians can rely on seeing almost daily, as the state begins to act on its own to start to re-open the economy. Evette is personally pleased that permission to dine at restaurants with outside facilities is pleasing because she looks […]

To help ensure voters are prepared for the June 9 Statewide Primaries, the State Election Commission reminds South Carolinians of the fast-approaching voter registration deadline. YOU MUST BE REGISTERED BY MAY 10* TO VOTE IN THE 2020 STATEWIDE PRIMARIES. Voters not currently registered to vote in their county of residence must register by the deadline, including citizens who: • Will […]