Author: Dick Mangrum

If you ventured Saturday into the Greenville County city of Travelers Rest, you’d have every right to wonder what the excitement was all about.  Traffic was bumper to bumper on the main street leading from the highway out of town and parking spots were at a premium.  Vendors were hawking their crafts and the cool day lent itself for biking […]

A tractor trailer truck caught fire early this morning on I-85 in Oconee County and the driver attempted to stop the fire with an extinguisher.  Something apparently caught fire under the trailer.  Volunteers from the Fair Play Fire Department and other public safety workers responded to the fire scene shortly after 1:30 this morning at the one mile marker in […]

Three Oconee public schools are being recognized with honors that recognize academic achievement. Ravenel Elementary School received a Palmetto Gold while both Walhalla High School and Walhalla Elementary School won Palmetto Silver awards. The Gold and Silver program, required by state law, is designed “to recognize and reward schools for academic achievement and for closing the achievement gap.” Individual school […]

Dairymen are a hardy lot known for tending their herds through the worst weather and toughest conditions. But even the hardiest dairyman can be forgiven for breaking out his handkerchief and dabbing the sweat from his brow during the unveiling of the new robotic milking system last Friday at Clemson University’s LaMaster Dairy Farm. More than 130 people attended the […]

Seneca’s elected leaders are to be briefed tomorrow night by the city attorney on the case of Chace versus the city of Seneca. It’s a matter set for closed-door discussion, following the finish of the regular October city council meeting. This appears to be crunch time for a lawsuit that, for the last year, has been removed from the active […]

Way back in the late 1970s Corky Moss and Mike Glenn were instrumental in getting the local chamber of commerce interested in staging an annual tourism event for Walhalla. From its beginnings, Oktoberfest has become Walhalla’s signature event to attract visitors for a three-day weekend every third weekend in October. To help spread the word, Moss and Glenn went to […]

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham welcomes Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on her visit tonight to Greenville, but President Trump ally Graham says he and many South Carolinians have serious concerns about the Presidential impeachment inquiry.  “Let’s be clear:  I believe impeaching President Trump over his phone call with the President of Ukraine is insane,” Graham said in a statement this […]

Near 100 percent of property owners directly affected are willing for Oconee County to change the name of a country road near Salem. But the re-naming will require a public hearing during part of next week’s meeting of the county Planning Commission. Part of the road connects to Whitewater Point Road. The planning commissioners will take public comment on the […]