Author: Dick Mangrum

Clemson University will celebrate its First Friday Parade — an annual event before the first home football game.  This year’s procession will follow highway 93 from Cherry Road to Centennial Boulevard.  However, there will be a slight route change:  procession begins at the intersection of 93 and Cherry Road and participating walking groups will conclude at the Lower Intramural Fields.  […]

An event this month will bring together the county sheriffs from Oconee, Anderson, and Pickens counties.  The event is a “Call to Action” fundraiser for a boys camp in the Spartanburg area and features event organizers interviewing the county sheriffs about their faiths.  It will take place at 6:30 Thursday night, September 19 at the Earles Grove Baptist Church.  A […]

A newly-elected South Carolina judge will hold the gavel this month at a term of the Oconee County General Sessions Court.  The court will welcome William C. McMaster III of Greenville for a one-week General Sessions term at Walhalla, to start Monday, September 16.  McMaster’s legal career includes time as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney.

The Walhalla Chapter DAR reminds us of the important U-S document that was celebrated, as bells rang, with the signing of the U-S Constitution.  The date was September 17, 1787.  It’s the document that starts with three important words, “We the people….”  September 17 this year is the start of Constitution Week, which runs through September 23.

Going forward with the job.  Oconee County Council last night approved a $253 thousand dollar expenditure to provide engineering services for a bridge replacement project at Salem.  The Crestwood Drive Bridge crossing the North Fork of Little River was built in 1981. There were questions, however, about funding options and whether the bridge conditions require action now.  

An accusation of failure to maintain a highway11 bridge in Oconee County is leveled against the South Carolina DOT.  The county Common Pleas Court lawsuit was filed by a Simpsonville attorney of the plaintiffs Simpsonville resident Patricia Boiter and Columbia resident Marion Bannister.  It alleges Boiter was the restrained driver August 30, 2022 of a mid-sized SUV headed northbound on […]

A Salem-Walhalla hair-cutting tradition ended last week when Alfred Orr trimmed the head of his last customer.  Near the age of 88 years old, Orr retired officially Wednesday, August 28. He was a barber for 60 years.

This summer’s Tri-County Technical College graduates were told that their journey will be filled with unexpected opportunities and their ability to seize them will shape their futures.  That’s part of the advice imparted by the keynote speaker at the recent graduation ceremony.  The keynoter, Elba Lizardi of Seneca BASF, also left the graduates with these words:  “Ask for what you […]

Brandon Burton is a former Walhalla fire chief and city administrator, before leaving for the Tidewater, Virginia area a couple of years back for emergency service work.  He’s back in the area.  Burton is the first-month procurement director for the city of Clemson.  It’s a job that has him buying things needed for the Pickens County municipal government, as well […]