Author: Dick Mangrum

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.

Two requests to re-zone properties are before the Seneca Planning Commission at 6 o’clock tonight at City Hall. And the public may watch tonight’s hearings or participate in them. The planning commissioners are to take up a planned development undeveloped request covering four parcels at Julian Davis Drive and South Cove Road near Lake Keowee. And there’s an RM-8 request […]

A church meeting room was transformed into politics Saturday night at Seneca’s Christ Community Church. Located in Seneca’s Bruce Hill community, the church room served as a campaign stop for two Democratic women who are attempting to unseat two Republican men from their government offices. It was a chance for those in the Bruce Hill neighborhood, as well as for […]