Author: Dick Mangrum

The regular July meeting of the Seneca City Council tonight will focus, among other matters, on a change in the city’s election schedules and a new ordinance forbidding animals during city events on Ramcat Alley.  There’s legal advice pertaining to an economic development matter unspecified in the pre-meeting agenda that will await the mayor and council during their closed part […]

Business matters pertaining to the Pioneer Rural Water District are on the agendas of two meetings across Oconee County today.  The PRWD board meets at 3 o’clock this afternoon in its conference room at its Oakway headquarters.  An update will be given on the new water treatment plant.  At their meeting tonight, Westminster city council members are reserving time in […]

South Carolina’s mandatory retirement law for judges cost West Union’s Alex Macaulay his full-time seat as a circuit court judge back in 2014, but he remains active today as a fill-in jurist when his services are needed. But apart from his duty to judge criminal and civil matters, Macaulay’s adult life has been spent in a variety of public service […]

Fire fighters from the Walhalla and Westminster areas fought separate house fires almost simultaneously during the midnight hour Saturday over the holiday weekend.  The first call came from a home fire on Walhalla’s East Wesley Street.  A nearby lightning strike is thought to be the culprit.  While there some of the fire fighters were re-assigned to the Westminster area to […]

Full- and part-time Tri-County Technical College students can receive a significant savings on tuition this fall — up to 81 percent — if they are enrolled in classes in a critical workforce field like engineering technology, health care and information technology. The South Carolina Workforce and Industry Needs Scholarship (SCWINS) is a statewide technical college scholarship program designed to address […]

Organizers of this month’s bluegrass music festival to benefit Southern Wesleyan University’s Jericho group home project are taking no chances with our fickle weather. The Jericho project will provide a new, learning environment that couple student mentors with special needs individuals. The Saturday, July 20 event originally planned outdoors at Southern Wesleyan at Central is being moved to an indoor […]

Westminster exploded fireworks, and Yousef Mefleh led the pledge of allegiance at Friday night’s July 4 week gathering at Owens Stadium behind the middle school.  Mefleh, city councilman and restaurateur, says he was honored that organizers chose him to lead the pledge which officially started the event.

Tragedy in Franklin County over the July 4th weekend when seven people were killed and others injured in a multi-vehicle crash on I-85 near Carnesville. According to Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas, it happened Saturday afternoon about 1:40p near exit 160. Investigators with the Hartwell Post of the Georgia State Patrol say a Ford SUV traveling north crossed the center […]