Author: Dick Mangrum

A government program to help low income homeowners repair, improve, or modernize their houses will be explained next month in Westminster. City councilwoman Susan Ramey invites everyone to a 6 o’clock Thursday evening, June 14 meeting at the Fire Department. A representative of the USDA, along with members of the Westminster PMPA Task Force, will be there to help homeowners […]

Law enforcement authorities say the Oconee County mother taken into custody, along with her children, in Alabama last week has been returned to Oconee. Jennafer Machelle Price of the Long Creek Highway, Westminster is charged with six counts of custodial interference and remained jailed today under a surety bond of $15 thousand. Oconee deputies went to Autauga County, Alabama, northwest […]

A five-milligram mosquito can kill a one thousand pound horse in a matter of days. All it needs is the right virus. All a horse owner needs is the right vaccine—at the right time. And Clemson University says now’s the time. West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) are transmitted to horses by mosquitoes. Reducing mosquito populations around the farm […]

Two Oconee County Council votes last night are further symbolic of the divide between three members on one side and two on the other. In one vote, the council decided against tabling a motion that directed the county’s interim administrator to re-negotiate its advertising contract with The Journal. Julian Davis and Paul Cain pushed for tabling. Opposed were Edda Cammick, […]

Walhalla resident Freddie Ray Woods drew a sentence of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to three charges yesterday in the Oconee General Sessions Court. Prosecutors say Woods pleaded guilty to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, discharging a firearm into a dwelling, and failure to register as a sex offender third offense. Deputy Solicitor Lindsey […]

Scammers cheated an Oconee County resident this week out of money, and Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says it’s a reminder that crooks often hide behind the telephone to carry out their misdeeds. In this instance, someone telephoned claiming to be an Oconee deputy. When the imposter wanted money, the targeted victim asked to speak to Sheriff Mike Crenshaw. And that’s when […]

Oconee Councilman Paul Cain doesn’t want a tax increase, but he says the costs of a lot of things these days are going up. Cain voted with the majority last night as the council voted for funds to meet additional requests in the county’s new budget. The addition of an estimated 1.38 tax mills will be required to fund an […]

Public safety crews re-opened U-S 76 near the South Carolina-Georgia crossing at 1 o’clock this morning. Traffic may now proceed both ways without impediment. The section of the highway near the Chattooga River was closed several hours last night, after the late afternoon sanitation truck accident. According to Charlie King of Oconee Emergency Services, the truck flipped and the driver […]