Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee sheriff’s officers believe a moped was stolen last week at an address near Westminster on the Sunshine Ridge Road.  It’s likely that the faded blue moped was stolen between 10:45 Wednesday night, February 19 and 9:45 am Thursday, February 20.  It’s a 2017 Kymco Agility 50.  Moped tag:  MP-2-1-1-1.  There was a Carolina Panthers sticker on the handle bars.  […]

The highway patrol reports a female driver escaped injury late this morning in a one-car crash on 123 in Oconee County.  The car overturned and landed on the grass median of 123/the Seneca-Clemson Corridor at Garden Circle.

An employee has been injured this morning at the Oconee Rock Quarry near Walhalla in an accident that is believed to have involved a forklift piece of equipment.  We spoke to Amanda Brock, county administrator, who says first information indicates the injured work suffered bruises and is being attended by medical personnel.  We’ll have further details as they are available.

A facility that will train the doctors of tomorrow should be ready to teach this spring. The building on the campus of the Prisma Oconee Memorial Hospital will be called the Center of Family Medicine. And Hunter Kome, chief operating office at the Prisma Oconee campus, says one-half dozen medical residents will be chosen to start training this summer.

For those wanting a meal out on the town, Seneca’s choices are increasing.  A regulatory board at City Hall last night approved certificates for the new Mayberry’s on N. Townville and for Ken Myers’ pizzeria on East Main.  That pizza restaurant is to locate in an existing building adjoining the first-year craft brew business at E. Main and n. Walnut.

The emergency department at the Prisma Oconee hospital is located on the west side of the building. But often a hospital emergency department is what many patients see first. And the local community is well aware, as attested to in a report heard last night by the Holdings Board at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. Cortni Nations says so far $619 […]

By simply clicking a federal government website, according to the boss of Prisma Oconee Memorial, you can see that the local hospital is one of the best. At a meeting last night, Hunter Kome, chief operating officer at Prisma Oconee, announced that the Centers for Medicare Control gave the hospital a four out of five-star rating for safety and quality. […]

A standoff between police and a man who barricaded himself inside his home near Walhalla ended when deputies entered the house and found the man unconscious. They applied the Narcan nasal spray and medical personnel sent the man to the hospital. According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, “Due to that fact, his name will not be released at this time […]

Oconee General Sessions Court prepares for the start of a trial on the first day of a five-day term. Once the lunch break is finished today, prosecutors plan to call the case of South Carolina v. Samuel Scott Gray. The court docket shows Gray is charged with burglary first degree in 2018 and assault and battery by mob second degree […]