Author: Dick Mangrum

Popeyes, the restaurant chain that specializes in Louisiana-style chicken, appears to be on its way to locating a restaurant in Oconee County. Amanda Brock, county administrator, this afternoon confirmed that Popeyes applied for a county permit April 20 to locate in the fast-developing Hartwell Village shopping center.  Brock says the permit application is being reviewed, but has yet to be […]

In consideration for the virus pandemic for which there is not yet a vaccine, a two-county water supplier will hold the line on its retail charges for 2020. General manager Terry Pruitt made the announcement this afternoon on behalf of the board of the Pioneer Rural Water District at Oakway. From a one-year old water treatment plant along highway 59, […]

The police in Seneca say two people have been arrested in their investigation of a home burglary last Sunday at 819 Laing Court. The apartment occupant returned to the unit with her children that evening and found two men in her living room. They yelled at her to not call the police and then ran out a back door. Nothing […]

This evening’s meeting of the committees of Walhalla City Council will take place at an alternate location.  The meeting will be held at the Depot on S. College Street and will start at 5:30 pm.

The world pandemic and the need to social distance create not the best atmosphere for hooking up–let along the major step of matrimony.  And COVID-19 appears to be having an effect on the numbers of couples who are starting the marriage process at the Oconee County Probate Judge’s office.  Judge Kenny Johns today counted 80 marriage permits issued from March […]

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.  […]