Author: Dick Mangrum

The general public has an invitation to join the League of Women Voters for an advocacy workshop on Sunday afternoon in Clemson.  From 3 to 4:30, an invited panel will offer tips and ideas about how you can better communicate with government officials.  Janie Shipley, co-president of the LWV, says there will be focus on learning effective ways of getting […]

Susan Ramey, Westminster city councilwoman, has announced date, time and location for a first task force meeting to address electric power bills in her city.  Ramey says she’s in need of 25 people to serve on a task force.  “The only qualification to be on board is that you are a customer of Westminster Utilities,” she says.  The meeting will […]

A Mountain Rest man was sent to prison today for 15 years for sex crimes against a teenage girl.  Bobby Lee had been a foster parent to the girl, but the courtroom heard graphic detail of how Lee abused her for his own pleasure.  He is 63 years old and, according to his attorney, must serve 12 and three-quarter years […]

In his career, an Oconee County resident helped  attract sizable manufacturing operations to states such as South Carolina, North Carolina, and Arkansas.  These days Dave Eldridge devotes effort to helping small, start-up businesses.  By name, he called attention this week to some of those start-ups that occupy a large building on Walhalla’s Brown Square.  It’s the Oconee Business Center, a […]

A Utica man has been sent to prison to serve 13 years for a series of crimes earlier this year.  This week in Oconee General Sessions Court, Barry Steven Garrett Jr. entered guilty pleas to multiple charges which included armed robbery, burglary, arson, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime, according to a court officer.  Garrett was arrested […]

Seneca’s Golden Corner Food Pantry has been rated by South Carolina Secretary of State Mark Hammond as one of “Ten Angels.”  The pantry made Hammond’s top ten list this year of organizations that exemplify charitable giving in South Carolina.  A review of financial reports showed the Golden Corner Food Pantry applied 91.3% of its expenditures toward charitable mission.

Oconee County Council will be asked to approve contract next week for work associated with the remediation project at the Seneca Landfill, as required by the state Department of Health and Environmental Control.  If approved, at the cost of around $95 and a half thousand dollars, M & W Drilling of Knoxville, Tennessee is to install three soil borings, multiple […]