Author: Dick Mangrum

Westminster has the chance to obtain federal money, administered thru South Carolina, that could pay to eradicate unsightly structures that don’t meet code. Mayor Brian Ramey and City Administrator Chris Carter say the city has the chance to put in a request in the next application cycle for a Community Development Block Grant. With the help of a part-time code […]

Additional enforcement is available to Westminster to enforce the city’s youth curfew. At the request of Police Chief Rory Jones, the city council last night approved an inter-government arrangement between the city and the Oconee Sheriff’s Office that will allow county officers to cite children who are discovered outdoors late at night without a proper excuse. Now weeks old, the […]

Public safety responders kept busy at opposite ends of U-S 123 near Seneca during the 7 o’clock hour last night when there were two, three-car accidents. One person was on the grass beside the wreckage of two cars and a truck at 123 and the Wells Highway between Seneca and Clemson. Another three-vehicle accident occurred on 123 in front of […]

In recent years, according to its critics, Pioneer Rural Water District has fallen short of good communications with its customer base. A couple of examples, the times when the board approved rate increases and during what, at times, was the controversial project to build a treatment plant. An Anderson County member of the Pioneer board, Eddie Grant, thinks the creation […]

A month and a half after dedicating its treatment plant, Pioneer Rural Water still awaits the state’s permission to produce water and pump it into the distribution system. And it was evident from this afternoon’s meeting that at least some board members are getting anxious. They’re hoping they won’t have to see the words “treatment plant update” on the agendas […]

The process to help form the next Oconee comprehensive plan will arrive this week in two areas of the county heretofore not consulted directly.  That changes tonight in Mountain Rest and in Salem on Thursday night.  Adam Chapman, county planner, promises to confine his remarks to a brief explanation of what a comprehensive plan is, and why it’s important for […]

The state police have arrested a Clemson Extension Service worker in Williamsburg County on the charge of embezzlement. “SLED” agents on Friday arrested Florence resident Jacob Stokes in an investigation of $1,400 in class registration fees allegedly converted by him to his own use. The state police investigation was requested by the Clemson campus police. An arrest warrant alleges the […]

The Pickens City Police Department is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding two hazardous devices that were intentionally placed near a wall on the exterior of the Pickens County Courthouse on Court St in the City of Pickens. The police say the remnants of two devices which appeared to be characteristic of homemade pipe bombs were located on the side of […]

United States Attorney General William P. Barr traveled to Columbia, South Carolina, for a breakfast with law enforcement officials and a visit to the United States Attorney’s Office. United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon hosted the breakfast with federal, state, and local law enforcement at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Officials discussed with Attorney General Barr the […]