Author: Dick Mangrum

Seneca’s wholesale supply contract with Pioneer Rural Water District is on the agenda tonight for two meetings of the city council.  The contract is listed for the agenda of a work session that starts at 6 o’clock at City Hall and for the executive session following the work session.

The 10-year assistant superintendent of human resources for the Oconee public schools, Earnestine Williams, has decided to retire at the end of the school year. Williams’ career in education started in 1986 as an elementary school teacher in Pendleton. There was a side to her that many people didn’t know. According to Dr. Michael Thorsland, district superintendent, “Mrs. Williams is […]

Here’s an update of an active homicide investigation being conducted by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office.  If you have information on the murder of Joann McCarthy November 26 at her home near Westminster, you are asked to call Crimestoppers at 1/888-CRIME-SC.  You can also go to the website www.oconeelaw.com.  Crimestoppers’ promise is that all information is given is kept confidential.  If […]

Blair Stoudemire, assistant solicitor, accepted the congratulations of his fellow colleagues at the end of the week-long Oconee trial that ended with the conviction of R-L Webb and a sentence of 45 years in prison.  The jury spent nearly eight hours in deliberations, covering parts of Thursday and Friday.  And there was worry among those hoping for guilty verdicts that […]

An Oconee County man has begun serving a 45-year prison term handed down at the end of his lengthy trial in the General Sessions Court.  It took the jury parts of two days to return guilty verdicts in the case of R-L Webb.  He is 65 years old. Webb was convicted of the murder of Gregory Stephen Brock and the […]

R-L Webb, who is in his mid 60s, has been sentenced to 45 years in prison–after an Oconee jury returned verdicts of guilty.  In all, the jury deliberated about nine hours over two days before finding Webb guilty of murder and burglary first degree.  Greg Brock was shot dead in September 2016 at his trailer home near Westminster, after being […]

By mid afternoon, still no verdict in SC v. Webb.  The Oconee jury presumably continued deliberations thru a lunch of pizza.  They had, so far, the court replay the testimony and account given by defendant R-L Webb and by Cole Stancil, who was present at the trailer home where Gregory Steven Brock was shot dead.  They also requested, and were […]

All items shoplifted during a crime last Saturday at the Seneca Wal-Mart have been retrieved, and a Townville woman has been arrested and charged with shoplifting. The Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Madeline Elizabeth Boyce. The 19-year old Boyce was arrested yesterday during a disturbance investigation at a home on Childress Drive. According to the Sheriff’s Office, a Wal-Mart […]

A long time supporter of Oconee Memorial Hospital, Suzanne Earle, says she’s “torn” over what she thinks is the best course for County Council to take when the issue of refinancing hospital debt is expected to return for a new vote.  Earle said she realizes there are financial considerations connected to the new tax bill, but she fears the entire […]

Under a new name, two South Carolina hospital providers are asking county councils in their service counties to sign off on a bond issue that will enable them to refinance debt as the company South Carolina Health Care. But the savings that’ll be derived from re-financing the debt facing Oconee Memorial, in the words of Edda Cammick, will be minimal […]