Author: Dick Mangrum

The public is invited next week to Walhalla to remember and reflect on the 9-11 tragedies of 2001.  A short memorial service is planned at 9 am Monday, September 11 at the county’s 9-11 memorial on SC 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway.  Organizer Brandon Shirley says the event will take about 20 minutes.

David Root, the Oconee County Attorney, gave his opinion last night as to the potential pitfalls when a majority of elected leaders gather outside their official settings when, in Oconee’s case, there are three of five members of the county council together.  Root says the opinions of the state Attorney’s General clearly specify that official business can’t be discussed or […]

To help explain some of Oconee’s major financial considerations, the county administrator invited the county treasurer to help explain funds and accounts which have led some in the public to believe that the county is sitting on millions of dollars which can be applied to some of the top pressing needs, such as the salary structure of county workers.  Bottom […]

The plight faced by Oconee’s home builders drew further attention last night as county government tries to solve the problem of delays in completing new home inspections.  There remain three inspector vacancies in the county building and codes department, and the difficulty to fill the jobs is tied, in part, to the failure to offer pay commensurate with the qualifications […]

Many questions were posed – some with a sharp edge – yet, in the end last night Oconee’s governing board unanimously set in motion the sale of up to $25 million worth of general obligation bonds.  This sale, it was pointed out, was the largest ever for Oconee County general government purposes.  It was the purposes which received much debate […]

Mayor Alexander confirmed this afternoon that Seneca’s municipal judge of only three months has resigned.  Eddie Lance resigned today, according to the mayor.  It means that Katie Smith, associate judge, will be handling the duties at least for now.

The drive to collect enough signatures of property owners to force a referendum on whether an Oconee volunteer fire station may enact a tax district has reached the halfway point, according to Chief Kevin Christenbury of the Corinth-Shiloh Fire Department.  Today he said, “We are at 50% of the required petitions, we count we need 800 and we are 407 […]

An arrest warrant alleges that a 32-year old Seneca woman abandoned a half-dead Shepherd mixed puppy; she was later charged with ill treatment and abandonment.  Charvilla Inez McWhorter-Ivy was arrested early Saturday and jailed at Walhalla.  The Oconee Sheriff’s Office provided the following information: “After an Animal Control Deputy observed the condition of the puppy, it was decided to euthanize […]

A homicide with ties to both Oconee and Pickens counties more than 30 years ago sent chills to much of the local and area population.  It was June 1992 and, to this date, the stabbing of a Clemson graduate student remains unsolved, a cold case.  The victim was Malaysia resident Norsaadah Husain.  Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw remembers a bloody scene […]