Author: Dick Mangrum

Town hall meetings are common in New England as a way for government there to do business, but quibbling over some words appears to have created an obstacle to scheduling an Oconee County town hall meeting.  The county Republican Party today released comments by its chairman, Jim Mann, along with a printed copy of what Matthew Durham, the county council […]

An Oconee lawyer in his spare time has developed a card game for which he has hopes to market nationally.  Tjay Bagwell calls the game “Marvel Mastermind” and got the idea from accessing card and board games on the internet which prompted in him the idea that he could build a game.  And market it to a publisher with the […]

A 40-year old Columbia area woman was placed under arrest by the Seneca police and charged with burglarizing a local hotel room.  Arrest records allege Prosperity resident Kendra Nicole Tucker is accused of entering a Hampton Inn room around 3:30 Thursday morning on EN 1st Street and taking a college student’s backpack.  The backpack contained various school supplies worth $550 […]

The Pickens County Coroner’s Office has identified a 25-year old Walhallan as the victim in an early night car crash last night on the Liberty Highway.  Deputy Coroner Tommy Page says Austin Lee Turner of Walhalla’s NW Broad Street died at the scene from blunt force trauma.  The highway patrol’s William Bennett said the Honda driven by Turner left the […]

The South Carolina Department of Education is named the defendant in a civil lawsuit filed this week in Oconee County.  The complaint, filed by an Anderson attorney on behalf of Joel Paige Ward, alleges negligence on the part of a bus driver, Mark Jeffrey Drost, involved in an accident last year in Seneca. It alleges that, on or about February […]

James Clements, president of Clemson University, has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for this year’s Apple Festival Rotary Luncheon in Westminster.  The occasion, a highlight of the South Carolina Apple Festival week, takes place at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, September 8 at the Westminster Baptist Church.

Part of the adequate workforce problem is a lack of housing for which workers can afford.  On Monday the Clemson City Council considers a $225 thousand real estate contract for 2.58 acres to create workforce housing.  Clemson has federal funds for the project.

The Anderson County Coroner’s Office has identified a 65-year-old Liberty man as the fatality in a late Wednesday night accident near a roundabout at SC 88 and U-S 178.  Don McCown, chief deputy coroner, said Norval Ray Painter lost his life to traumatic injuries secondary to blunt force trauma when his motorcycle hit a fallen tree across 178.  The accident […]