Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee County has a guidebook for its immediate future. After a public hearing, the county council approved a new comprehensive plan. The plan had the support of the planning commission which held listening sessions across the county. Some of those commissioners were present last night to endorse the adoption of the 2020 plan. But it got only a narrow approval […]

The numbers of visitors that Clemson baseball and basketball games brought to the university last weekend, in the estimation of one police officer, was remindful of what a Tiger football weekend is like in the city. The police stayed busy corralling individuals suspected of breaking the state’s drug and liquor laws. According to the police department’s Facebook page, one drug […]

The idea of outdoor Walhalla concerts was introduced during the committee meetings last night of the city council. According to Mark Thompson, executive director of the Walhalla Center for the Performing Arts, there’s interest in staging warm weather outdoor concerts on the nearby soccer field, the Razorbacks’ former football stadium. And Thompson has a lead on which act could be […]

Walhalla leaders were told last night that the Joint Regional Sewer Authority is committed to correcting a situation that has the potential to lead to more sewer overflows on the city’s southwest end of its sewer service area. The city’s utilities director and JRSA representative Scott Parris told the mayor and council that the plan is to raise the manholes […]

Oconee County on record in support of 2nd Amendment rights Oconee County is now one of a growing list of counties on record supporting the 2nd Amendment and opposing any unconstitutional encroachment of the right to keep and bear arms. Cheers and clapping from some members of the audience met Tuesday’s unanimous passage Tuesday of a resolution supporting all constitutional […]

Another Oconee County woman has gone missing. At a City Hall meeting last night, Walhalla Police Chief Sean Brinson announced the disappearance of Tammy Stubblefield, a 51-year old resident of Moore Avenue. The police quote Stubblefield’s daughter, Angel, as saying that her last contact with her mother was in late November. None of Tammy Stubblefield’s friends or relatives say they […]

Final approval of a solar farm project near Fair Play will have to wait, but now major details of the project confidential till now stand revealed. County attorney David Root asked the County Council on Tuesday to delay a third reading on a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Blue Ridge Solar LLC because the company representatives still held some of the paperwork […]

Two sitting members of the board of the Pioneer Rural Water District at Oakway are in line for new terms of office, without opposition.  Ronnie Williams and Eddie Grant were re-nominated during a meeting this afternoon at the district office.  Williams serves as the District Two member; Grant represents District 5.

If there’s a theme to the pattern of scamming attempts, it is that the scammer will try to play on your emotions, and Oconee Sheriff’s Office wants you to be wary. A caller claimed that a power customer needed to pay or see his power disconnected. He wanted the power customer to buy a pre-paid card and place money on […]

The number of those arrested for burglary at a former Westminster manufacturing plant has swelled to six men and women. The Oconee Sheriff’s Office has added 22-year old Pickens resident Leanna Shyann Green to a growing number of those accused of burglary at what used to be the Dunlop/Maxlfi plant on 123. Charges against Green are listed as second degree […]