Author: Dick Mangrum

At a county committee meeting this week, the Westminster city administrator requested $500 thousand dollars to solve a couple of government office problems in his downtown. The money would go toward a combination new home for both City Hall and the next door county magistrate’s office. The request, according to county council and budget chairwoman Edda Cammick, comes at a […]

Like the rock quarry, Oconeeans apparently haven’t been shy about giving their opinion on whether city of Clemson should annex a part of Oconee County property. The property is one lot at the construction site of Hartwell Village Shopping Center but to Edda Cammick, chairwoman of Oconee County Council, this is a territorial issue that Oconeeans are concerned over. Cammick […]

The public is invited to Clemson tonight for the final presentation of the downtown corridor study.  The meeting will be 6 o’clock at the new fire station at 740 Issaqueena Trail.  The program will start promptly and will be followed by a question-answer session.

The message that Chairwoman Edda Cammick of Oconee County Council has received from the public has been loud and clear. Oconeeans want their county government to hold onto to the rock quarry. As Cammick put it yesterday, it’s the goose that lays the golden egg as an enterprise fund that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for the […]

A 24-year old man has been named by the Sheriff’s Office as the murder suspect in the shooting death yesterday of a homeowner near Walhalla. The Sheriff’s Office announced charges of murder, entering premises after warning, and possession of a weapon during commission of a violent crime against Tyler Mark Broome of Dewey Street, Westminster. Investigators believe Broome shot Robert […]

A homeowner, wounded during the night near Walhalla, died this morning at the Greenville Memorial Hospital. Coroner Karl Addis says Robert Steven McDowell died at 5:57 this morning, and his death is being investigated as a homicide. McDowell was 63 years old and identified in a Sheriff’s Office statement as the homeowner at 498 Quarter Horse Trail. An autopsy is […]

Walhalla has made a milestone in its several-year project to build a new water treatment plant. Scott Parris, utilities superintendent, told the mayor and council, the application to draw water from Lake Keowee was filed late last month with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. That application took two years of work with the city’s engineers and others. Parris thinks it […]

More than 150 children and adults learned chemistry the fun way this morning at the Swain Community Branch Library in the Pickens County town of Liberty. Undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Science’s department of chemistry hosted an outreach event called “Fun with Chemistry.” The library was filled with excitement as kids scrambled from station to station to […]