Author: Dick Mangrum

A community group in Seneca says it is ready to take over public school property. The transaction could become reality on a favorable vote this Monday night by the Oconee County school trustees. It’s the understanding of the group the Blue Ridge Community Center that the school district, by August 2020, will no longer have use for the Code Learning […]

Re-enactors will take their positions tomorrow during a frontier encampment at the Oconee Station State Historic Site near Walhalla.  For those who go, it’s a chance to imagine the period after the Revolutionary War when the Oconee Station was a frontier outpost.  The program, 10 am to 3 pm, is appropriate for all ages and will include demonstration of muskets, […]

As a youngster, Leslie Hagerty had a penchant to talk and to tell and hear stories.  Those attributes have served her well in her role as director of Oconee County’s official history museum.  Hagerty has made 10 years on the job, and last evening she greeted friends and county officials who congratulated her on her achievement.  As only the second […]

Everyone is invited to an event tomorrow in Easley that’ll benefit Special Olympics South Carolina.  The highway patrol is involved in staging “Show at the Point” that’ll feature food, music, and door prizes from 10 to 2 at the 5 Point Church, 1039 Pendleton Street, Easley.  Tickets are $20 dollars.  All proceeds go to Special Olympics South Carolina.

Fire fighters quickly stopped a fire that caused minor damage to the outside of a home this afternoon at 261 W. Main Street in Salem.  Capt. Brady Norris of Emergency Services says five people–two adults and three children–are temporarily displaced, but they have found living arrangements this evening with other family members.

Sheriff Mike Crenshaw and Oconee County Administrator Amanda Brock presented the keys for a retired patrol vehicle today to the law enforcement class at the Hamilton Career Center.  Having a vehicle that was used in actual law enforcement work should give the law enforcement class students a “hands on” approach when it comes to how a patrol car is used […]

Three South Carolinians, including two men from Westminster, remained jailed today in Georgia, charged with drugs and weapons possession. Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas said the arrests were made September 1 after deputies pulled over a red sedan on I-85 northbound for an expired tag. Arrested were 25-year old Casey Milosek of Westminster, SC, 32-year old Ronald Keller of Piedmont, […]

The motorcyclist killed early today in rural Pickens County when his bike hit a deer has been identified.  Coroner Kandy Kelley says Mathew Meyer was 34 years old and a resident of the Dacusville Highway, Easley.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal accident that occurred early this morning in Pickens County. According to Master Trooper David Jones of the Highway Patrol, the accident occurred around 1am on Highway 135 near Montague Drive, which is north of Easley. Jones says that one unit is involved and the driver of the vehicle, a 2003 Yamaha […]

A group of Oconee County public safety responders remembered 9-11 by climbing the steps of the football stadium at West-Oak High School.  It was a symbolic step climb in homage to what first responders faced at the scene of the deliberate crashes by terrorists of airliners on September 11, 2001.