Author: Dick Mangrum

The Oconee County sheriff who rode into office six and a half years ago with a platform promoting drug enforcement and help for those who are addicted, thinks it’s just great that the Washington Post this week has unmasked many of the numbers behind the country’s opioid crisis. Sheriff Mike Crenshaw reacts this way to the newspaper’s stories and analysis: […]

Having gained access to Drug Enforcement Administration reports, the Washington Post this week says it has been able to track the path of every pain pill in the country. Thru its website the newspaper has made public the path of the pills from manufacturers to the drug stores. The data cover the years 2006-2012. For Oconee County, the numbers show […]

Parts of the 123 By-Pass were covered with water during a quick hitter downpour during the 2 o’clock hour yesterday afternoon.  One motorist told us he paid the price for leaving his windows down when he parked his car.  The big Seneca rain did not touch the Walhalla corporate limits.  Not a drop of water was recorded on weather watcher […]

Law enforcement authorities arrested five people on drug charges in Seneca and in the rural South Union community of Oconee County. The Sheriff’s Office reports the arrests at a South Union Road home of David Anthony Dockins of Seneca and Jonathan Curtis Dockins of Westminster. According to the Sheriff’s Office, seized were 45 ounces of meth that carry a street […]

Two men putting up walls to a new home on the Lake Keowee side of Pickens County were killed yesterday afternoon when the walls of that new house fell on top of them.  Coroner Kandy Kelley says killed were Greenville residents Domingo Diego Nicolas, 22, and Sabino Juarez Lopez, 42.  The accident occurred in the Pickens County community of Sunset, […]

Oconee County officials say government offices will re-open today after yesterday’s shutdown due to computer troubles.  Announcement from the sheriff’s office states the software malware has been identified and isolated. According to Amanda Brock, county administrator, all county offices will do business today, although some may have limited resources only until all systems are fully restored.  The Sheriff’s Office, SLED, […]

When it rains at one particular Walhalla intersection, more often than not…it pours. As the result of a formal vote today, the flood-prone S. Broad and S. College intersection now awaits what will be designed as a permanent fix to the conditions that allow for flooding when it rains hard. Often a hard rain will force city officials to detour […]

An Oconee jury returned the verdict of guilty this morning in the case of South Carolina v. Witt. A court officer says the jury found Lee Witt guilty of stalking a woman with whom he had had a prior relationship. Witt was arrested by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office in 2017. Because defendant Witt did not appear for trial, his sentence […]