Author: Dick Mangrum

According to Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park, a bison gored an 83-year-old Greenville, South Carolina woman.  It happened Saturday near Yellowstone Lake.  There was no immediate word on her condition.  Although the incident remains under investigation, the national park announcement states:  “The bison, defending its space, came within a few feet of the woman and lifted her about a foot off […]

The Oconee Humane Society and the county Sheriff’s Office are teaming up for a special dog adoption day this Saturday from 10 to 2 at the F. A. R. M. Center on the Sandifer Boulevard.  The humane society promises adorable, adoptable dogs who are spayed/neutered, microchipped, and current on vaccines.  A free lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers will be […]

The center of global finance.  That is where business students from Clemson University were when they got to go from the classroom to the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange.  They witnessed the ringing of the opening bell, got a behind-the-scenes tour from Clemson alumni and connected with financial pros.

Politically speaking, everything points to South Carolina primary election day one week from today.  But lurking beyond June 11 is a separate election when Oconeeans fill three seats on the county school board.  The November General Election is mostly about partisan politics, but Oconee school board seats are non-partisan, meaning candidates do not have to declare a party affiliation.  Oconeeans […]

Oconee County, along with the cities of Walhalla and Clemson, will share in grants announced by the Duke Energy Foundation.  The county of Oconee gets $20 thousand to buy inflatable rafts and swift water rescue equipment for emergency responders; the city of Walhalla receives $2 thousand for chainsaws, backpack blowers, hooks and chains for response to severe weather incidents; and […]

The police say two people were sent to be treated for minor injuries from a two-vehicle accident around the noon hour yesterday at Seneca’ East End intersection — 123 and 130, the Rochester Highway.  For a time, westbound traffic was funneled into one lane as public safety responders worked to clear    the intersection of the wreckage.