Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

SC DNR announces that, for the first time, private land in the southern portions of Oconee, Pickens and Greenville counties (south of Game Zone 1) and all of Spartanburg County (Game Zone 2) will have a bear season. This portion of Game Zone 2 will open for still hunting only (no dogs) on Oct. 17, and the season will potentially […]

Walhalla utility crews are likely to soon take to the task of extending a sewer line that’ll facilitate a Midwest company’s plans to open an operation in the county’s Information and Technology Park on s. highway 11. At a meeting this week, utilities superintendent Scott Parris told his mayor and council that a manufacturer of vehicle cooling systems is anxious […]

A Democratic hopeful for President will lend her support this weekend for a strike by South Carolina McDonald’s workers in their quest for a union and a $15 dollar an hour pay scale. According to Kamala Harris’ campaign, the senator will meet with striking McDonald’s workers in Charleston County. The campaign quotes the candidate as saying: “It’s time to ‘bust […]

A car driver in Seneca escaped injury yesterday when the small car went out of control at an intersection and hit a tree. The police say the accident occurred shortly after 10 am when a 2009 Nissan Versa attempted to turn onto S. Oak Street from WS 4th

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is warning the public about a nationwide scam that has affected thousands and resulted in the loss of over $10 million in the last year. The Federal Trade Commission has issued an advisory due to numerous consumer complaints that there are imposters who are impersonating the Social Security Administration (SSA) in an attempt to get […]

This summer and early fall have seen a larger than normal number of houses fires along Lake Keowee in Oconee County. The latest destructive fire was Monday night in a peninsula development. As to the abnormal fires, county Fire Chief Charlie King says, “While there continues to be investigations from multiple agencies continuing into the cause of the fires in […]

The Army Corps of Engineers declared their three Savannah River reservoirs this week at the first drought level, after the pool elevation of J-Strom Thurmond Lake dipped below 326′ above mean sea level.  Trigger Level 1 activates the corps’ drought management plan that conserves water by reducing the outflows from the Thurmond Dam.  The pool elevations Tuesday were 656.31 ft-msl […]