Author: Dick Mangrum

This year’s First Friday Parade at Clemson will follow an alternate route to avoid the construction work on SC 93. The parade that marks the start of the school year and kickoff to the football season will take place 6 o’clock Friday evening, August 31. Recent work on highway 93 will force this year’s parade to follow a route that […]

A two-car accident late Saturday night in Pickens County took the lives of two Walhallans. The deceased have been identified by Gary Duncan, the deputy Pickens County coroner, as 39-year old Deborah Lynn Baynard and 58-year old Randall Joey Luker. Baynard and Luker were identified as friends and, according to state troopers, were passengers in a 1994 Ford Explorer driven […]

Oconee Sheriff’s Office has issued a reminder that telephone scammers resort to what’s called “spoofing” to make it appear that they are calling from a local number when in many cases they are not. An Oconee County plumber on the job got a call yesterday which appeared to carry a local prefix but, in this case, he became suspicious and […]

After finishing its work last night at City Hall, Seneca Planning Commission had laid the groundwork for the city limits to grow by about 29 acres. That’s the estimate given by Ed Halbig, the planning and community development director, after the planning commissioners voted to annex two sets of properties and assign zoning classifications to them. On Radonshire Road in […]

Lots of things change in Oconee County, but public school enrollment numbers appear to remain steady. Yesterday’s first day of school enrollment countywide finished at 10,258. And Steve Hanvey, associate superintendent of education, projects by week’s end total enrollment will jump by 270, to a number of 10,528. The county’s newest high school, Walhalla High, maintains top enrollment at 1,123. […]

A researcher at Clemson University, Don Hagan, says frequent prescribed fires in southeastern forests can help prevent raging wildfires like those that have engulfed much of northern California. The Mendocino Complex fire, the largest wildfire northern California has even seen, is being fueled by dead leaves, tree branches, and other debris that have accumulated on forest floors. Hagan, an ecology […]

Brian Lusk has returned to the Oconee County town where he grew up and graduated from high school. The former state trooper took the oath on Friday as police chief in Salem, succeeding Dave Poulson, who resigned for a job in nearby Pickens. Lusk becomes the only fill-time police officer in Salem, but is being assisted by two part-time officers. […]

Two Salem town council members are entered as candidates in the special October election to fill the office of mayor. They are council members Lynn Towe and Kevin Talley. Currently, Talley serves as mayor pro-tem. Other Salem residents have a few more days to make up their minds. The filing deadline is noon Monday, August 27. Special Election Day in […]

A Seneca woman, reported missing on August 2, has been found in nearby Clemson. And law enforcement officers say Camellia Lynn Norris is fine. According to an announcement, the Oconee Sheriff’s Office has verified that the woman located is the 52-year old Norris.