Author: Dick Mangrum

This year’s Christmas parade in Seneca will follow a new route that’ll divert from N. 1st Street to further incorporate Ramcat Alley, East Main, and the Norton Thompson Park in the city’s holiday festivities. The 2019 parade will be 6 o’clock Monday night, December 2. There will also be the traditional tree lighting ceremony at the park. “The whole idea […]

A Tri-County Tech student from Clemson looked at her tuition balance for Tech’s spring semester and was pleasantly stunned to see that it read zero. The reason is a new assistance through state government. Kaelyn Minick qualified for both the Lottery Tuition Assistance and the new South Carolina Workforce and Industry Needs Scholarship (SC WINS) funding. The Medical Assisting major […]

A 44-year old man near Seneca has been arrested on charges of harassing his neighbor. In Oconee Sheriff’s Office records, the victim is identified as an Anderson sheriff’s investigator, a neighbor of the accused. Arrest warrants accuse Brant Astron Ross of the Return Church Road of harassment first degree and threatening the life of a public employee. In the offenses […]

Jesse Osborne’s sentencing hearing resumes at 9 o’clock this morning at the Anderson Courthouse. Testimony yesterday afternoon saw mental health experts adding brushstrokes to the portrait both the state and the defense are looking to develop of the confessed killer. Now 17 years old, Osborne pleaded guilty last year to charges stemming from his September 2016 spree that saw him […]

Once again, portions of one-month vehicle sales at Oconee dealerships are going to the fight against cancer. The beneficiary is the breast care center at the Oconee Memorial Hospital. This year’s donation is $35 thousand, raised by Lake Keowee Ford and Lake Keowee Dodge Ram. This year the efforts, led by Mark Williams, were joined by Chris Smith’s Harley Davidson […]

A psychiatrist for the defense testified today that he thought 17-year-old Jesse Osborne could be rehabilitated. Another psychologist, testifying for the state, labeled Osborne “dangerous,” painting a portrait of a pathological liar who would always pose a threat to society. The competing views were the keynote of the second morning of testimony on the second day of the sentencing hearing […]

From the vantage point of the League of Women Voters, the night of October 28 in Westminster was a good example of democracy in action. That was the night that candidates, the public, and the media crowded into the training room of the Westminster Fire Department for a political forum, eight days before the election. Fire fighters take the size […]

Yesterday’s rainy morning made for an accident inside a busy Seneca intersection. No one was reported hurt, but the police say they ticketed a car driver with failing to yield the right of way at 123 and EN 1st Street. Involved was a second vehicle, a truck, that was left smoking—the result of broken radiator. The collision nearly involved a […]

City administrator Scott Moulder and mayor pro tem Ronnie O’Kelley had an extra kick to their gait as they entered the city council’s November meeting. They had just taken a quick look at changes to one block of E. Main Street, between Depot and N. Townville. A storefront that once was a drug store is being renovated for a women’s […]