Author: Dick Mangrum

Imagine your days this summer spent laying asphalt or hammering roof shingles. On the whole, you’d likely be happier if you were poolside in Walhalla. The smiles and the laughter on the part of children this afternoon at the Walhalla City Swimming Pool are a testament to beating the heat of 90-degree temperatures. The water looks crystal clear this afternoon […]

Yesterday evening’s Lake Keowee drowning victim has been identified.  Coroner Karl Addis says he is Thomas Landon Gallman, 27-year old Greenville resident.

The Oconee County organization that strives to make sure that kids and their families are ready to achieve success at school has set its board meeting schedule for August-October.  There will be no meeting this month of the First Steps Partnership Board.  A change has been made in the meeting planned in September.  That meeting will be 12 noon Thursday, […]

The new country club at Keowee is in its final weeks of renovation, and the gated Lake Keowee community there plans a grand re-opening event this month.  The work done on the Club at Keowee Key is part of $14 million dollars in amenity upgrades throughout the home project.  The event will be Friday evening, July 26.  Since last year, […]

A 27-year old Greenville man died last evening at the Fall Creek Landing near Salem. Coroner Karl Addis says what happened appears to have been an accidental drowning. By late last night, the coroner’s office was still trying to locate and notify his family. Addis says the man and friends arrived at Fall Creek around 5 pm and swam to […]

A magistrate within the last hour denied bond for the suspect in the crash last night that took the life of a woman asleep in the basement of her home. The ruling by Magistrate Erin McKinney followed a recitation of the facts gathered in what happened last night when, authorities believe, the defendant, El Asia Hassian Muhammed of Easley, ran […]

Here’s the latest announcement on what happened late last night:  “The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged El Asia Hassian Muhammad for leaving the scene of an accident with death, which resulted in the death of a 39 year- old Seneca woman, Vanessa Leanne Neimeyer. This charge is a felony which carries a sentence up to 25 years in prison […]

Lake users will have fun and relaxation on their minds when they crowd area lakes over July the 4th. Law enforcement, however, takes its job seriously when it fans out to make sure that the all of the fun and other activities are safe for everyone. Local and area officers gathered today at the Big Oaks recreation area on the […]

An accident involving a train and a tractor-trailer truck at a Seneca crossing three years ago is the subject for a lawsuit last week in the Oconee Common Pleas Court. The railroad, Norfolk Southern, seeks actual and consequential damages to cover damage to its locomotive, track, crossing, and warning devices at the East Main Street crossing. Named defendants were Branch […]