Author: Dick Mangrum

Construction is underway on a large parking lot to serve the new Hamilton Career and Technology Center, once it opens at its new location in August of next year. The building and the parking lot are now under construction in the county’s Information and Technology Park on highway 11. The front parking lot will have 236 regular spaces and nine […]

Building and other changes for two locations inside Seneca’s design review district received the blessings of a regulatory board last night at the City Hall. The city’s Board of Architectural Review approved certificates of appropriateness for projects at 402 S. Depot Street and 401 S. Walnut. The property owner will be allowed to re-build a home to replace what had […]

A National Wildfire and Education Team has arrived in South Carolina Saturday to assist in preventing human-caused wildfires throughout the Francis Marion & Sumter National Forests. Rick Lint, Forest Supervisor said, “We’re really concerned about the fire danger, and we need to raise awareness with our public about the danger and human caused fires, for their safety and our valuable […]

A team of researchers from Clemson University and Prisma Health–Upstate are working to create a screening process to catch ovarian cancer in the early or pre-cancerous stages. Their goal is to make this screening as simple and easy for women as getting a pap smear. The idea is to identify the pre-cancerous changes through the makeup of the cervical mucus. […]

An Oconee County man has been arrested in an investigation of Mountain Rest home burglaries in late January. In each instance, law enforcement records show, Bradley Scott Owens of Apple Tree Lane, Westminster is charged with burglary and theft. According to warrants released by the Sheriff’s Office, 28-year old Owens is accused of stealing a .22 rifle and a 12-gauge […]

A snag developed last night on the proposition that the county sewer authority send refunds to its member cities—Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster. The regular meeting of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority ended with a question un-answered. Raised by Walhalla’s Lamar Bailes, the question focused the commission on whether the JRSA can afford to return upwards of $5 million and still […]

A Walhalla family was forced to find temporary accommodations for the remainder of the night after fire damaged their trailer near Walhalla’s Coffee Road.  No one reported hurt in the fire on Corey Road, across from the James Brown Elementary School.  According to an early report, a clothes dryer started the fire.  Walhalla Fire Department answered the call at 1:22 […]

The South Carolina Access to Justice Commission has selected Hannah C. Honeycutt to serve as its new Executive Director. Honeycutt will lead the Commission in its mission to address barriers to legal representation in South Carolina. Honneycutt is a 2007 graduate of Wagner College in New York with a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in English and Spanish, […]