Author: Dick Mangrum

A weekend incident on the rural Peaceful Lane in Oconee County is alleged to have been anything except peaceful. A Peaceful Lane resident in the Tokeena-Crossroads community was arrested by Oconee sheriff’s officers. Arrest records show Rebecca Denise Heaton is charged with public disorderly conduct, assault on police officer while resisting arrest, and spitting in the face of two deputies […]

A vote 3-0 by the Westminster Planning Commission helps clear the way for a home development called Westminster Crossing. No one spoke in opposition during a hearing last night at the City Hall. Approved was a zoning change from residential-25 to residential-15. It’s said that potentially there are more than 100 lots to develop for new houses.

Design and engineering are underway on a new phase of Oconee County Sewer South—the one to bring piped sewer to I-85 in the hopes for economic development on Oconee’s four-mile stretch of the federal highway. The Joint Regional Sewer Authority is working with the Davis Floyd company, and the JRSA’s Chris Eleazer projects the possibility to extend sewer from the […]

A Clemson building moratorium, along with the university pushing students into off-campus housing, creates concern for neighboring Oconee County. And questions arise whether Oconee utilities are capable of accommodating the loads created by continual new development at the county’s east end, across from the city of Clemson and the university. But last night Chris Eleazer, executive director of the Oconee […]

Buying a ticket to a dinner next month will help the cause to restore the auditorium of the former high school in Salem.  The non-profit group OPUS Trust will stage an oyster roast fundraise at 4 o’clock Saturday afternoon, February 1 at the Jocassee Valley Brewing Company.  Tickets are pre-sale only $25 dollars for a dozen oysters and a drink.  […]

They did not put his picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone, but the magazine reporter included what Larry Brandt, a Walhalla attorney, had to say about his former law partner, Lindsey Graham. And what Brandt has to say about how the U-S senator has deported himself in recent years adds to up to an unflattering opinion of his […]

A Seneca representative will now hold the gavel during meetings of the board that sets policy for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority. The JRSA’s long-time chairman, Walhalla’s Scott Parris, took himself out of consideration for a new term during the 2020 re-organization meeting of the sewer commissioners. In Parris’s spot will be Seneca’s Scott Moulder. Westminster’s Brian Ramey nominated Parris […]

Walhalla resident Keith Pace will go into this year’s special election as the one and only ballot candidate to fill a vacancy on the city council.  Qualifying for the March 3 election ended at noon today.  Even though there will be only one ballot candidate, a change in the law requires an election.  According to county election official Ryan Nowland, […]

South Carolina Democrats are staging a vote at the end of next month to gauge how much interest there is in a large field of hopefuls for their party’s nomination this year to run for President. The Democrats Presidential Preference Primary will take place Saturday, February 29. The names of 14 Democrats will be on the ballot. Because South Carolina […]