Author: Dick Mangrum

Nearly six-year old theft charges in Oconee County have landed a Lavonia, Georgia woman in the Oconee jail. Arrest warrants were served last weekend on Candance Nicole Tukes charging petty larceny. Tukes is accused in 2013 of using a debit card belonging to someone else to buy an item for $1.58; allegedly took a wallet belonging to a second person […]

Public safety responders, including those sent by the Walhalla Fire Department, made quick work last night of a search and rescue operations at the Stumphouse Mountain Park.  Two people became temporarily unaccounted for during an outing.  But they were located safely about 9 o’clock last night at the bottom of Issaqueena Falls, after a search and rescue operation that started […]

A trail coordinator says as more and more mileage is added to the Palmetto Trail in Oconee County, Walhalla’s Stumphouse Mountain Bike Park will become “a nationally significant facility.” Rob Achenberg made the prediction during last night’s meeting of the Partners for Progress. He said a lengthier section of the trail will be ready for use this fall and soon […]

A Walhalla official believes it’s not a stretch that a movement can materialize over a period of years in which some of the city’s public lands can be converted to greenways. And those greenways, according to City Administrator Brent Taylor, can serve to connect the Palmetto Trail from the Stumphouse Tunnel Park to the city’s downtown. Taylor told members of […]

A group that strives for a better quality of Walhalla life will enter the political arena this fall when it plays host to a forum for the men and women who qualify as candidates for the city’s 2019 election.  At its meeting last night, the Partners for Progress voted to host the forum likely some night in October, in advance […]

The South Carolina Drought Response Committee, meeting via conference call on Aug. 12, upgraded the drought status for Oconee County and 32 other South Carolina counties . Nine counties were upgraded from normal to incipient, the first level of drought: Oconee, Anderson, Pickens, Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester, Georgetown, Hampton and Jasper. Eleven counties were maintained at incipient drought. According to the […]

A Furman University student from Salem, Kristin Nauman, is one of nine Furman students selected for the Millennium Fellowship, a program of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Millennium Campus Network (MCN). Launched in 2018, the Millennium Fellowship convenes, challenges and celebrates student leadership that advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on campuses worldwide. For the Class […]

A Walhalla man was arrested in Seneca after the police investigated sightings of a suspicious person at two locations this morning south of the railroad tracks. The Seneca police investigation started when a WS 2nd Street resident complained that someone vandalized his home by breaking a front door window. After receiving a second report—this one of a man carrying a […]

In an earlier post about tomorrow’s meeting of the West Union Town Council, it was incorrectly reported that one of the business items would be an intergovernmental agreement between town and Oconee County involving a sewer matter.  That was incorrect.  The matter involves the purchase of supplies for magistrate services to the town.

The South Carolina Highway Patrol and the Oconee County Coroner’s Office are investigating a fatal motor vehicle accident that occurred over the weekend. According to Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis, 49 year old James Brian Tharp of Westminster died Saturday afternoon at the scene of the accident which occurred on Bountyland Road at the intersection of Poplar Ridge Drive. The […]