Author: Dick Mangrum

For a change, Oconee School District is about to enjoy a full complement of school bus drivers. The county trustees last night received that news with pleasure from Ozzie Wright, their third-year transportation director. Wright says if all qualified drivers report for work this week, the district will have drivers to cover all routes. All eight members of a training […]

A dirt bike accident on the property of a Seneca home sent one person to the hospital this afternoon with what the police say appeared to be a leg injury. The accident occurred around 3 this afternoon on N. Debra Street near the 123 By-Pass.

Clemson researchers recently released findings on the issue of food insecurity in Pickens County along with recommendations and proposed solutions to the problem. The extensive study of hunger and food insecurity in the county was funded by the United Way of Pickens County with support from Clemson’s College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences. The results of the study are […]

A new convenience store is being welcomed in Stephens County, Georgia. Underdog’s Convenience Store, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. Underdog’s Convenience Store is located at 3436 Hwy 17, in Toccoa. Owner Chris Bradberry says the name Underdog comes from the story about a group of racecar drivers that were the underdog because they didn’t have a sponsor. He says, life […]

The Westminster Elementary Student Council and the Women’s Committee of the Oconee County Farm Bureau have partnered in a winter service project. The student council sponsored a food drive for the Ronald McDonald House in Greenville. Students collected over seven large boxes of snack food. The hope is that the snacks will provide the families served by the Ronald McDonald […]

An arraignment is planned today for an Easley man who was arrested after a stolen Greenville sheriff’s car was found overturned yesterday on the Farrs Bridge Road. According to the Pickens Sheriff’s Office the man arrested, Roy Wood McDonald, was not an employee of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. It was determined that the patrol car was stolen from the […]

Oconee public safety responders searched by ground and by air, but apparently found no signs of the possibility of a small plane crash. Sheriff Crenshaw said after his office received a report from someone who heard what sounded like the sputtering of a plane engine, officers began to look and their helicopter took to the air. The search late yesterday […]

Oconee authorities are investigating a report of a possible plane crash near Walhalla.  An unconfirmed report indicates someone heard what sounded like the sputtering of the engine of a small plane in the vicinity of n. highway 11 in the Picket Post Community.  Sheriff Crenshaw says his office is activating its helicopter to assist.  A command post is being organized […]