Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee County Council will organize for 2018 during its meeting at 6 o’clock Tuesday night at Pine Street.  It’s tradition that in its first meeting of any New Year that the council elects officers, makes appointments, assigns committees, and sets the meeting schedule for the year.  Whether District One’s Edda Cammick is re-elected as chairwoman for a second year will […]

A company in W. Columbia, Nephron Pharmaceuticals, announced pay raises of five percent for all employees as the result of the Tax Cuts and Job Acts becoming law.  And Senator Lindsey Graham was there for the celebration announcement.  Graham said, “This pay raise will increase the hourly workforce’s wage to fifteen dollars per hour and the average salary at Nephron […]

Oconee deputies employed a Taser to help subdue a suspect during the investigation of an incident early last Saturday on the N. Pond Fork Road near Westminster. Three separate charges were placed against Cody Brandon Herring: assault and battery third degree; malicious injury to real property; and assault on a police officer while resisting arrest. According to the Sheriff’s Office, […]

Not long after the Oconee County Treasurer’s Office opened this morning, the office workers saw steady traffic at the counter windows. In this shortened work week, there are two deadlines facing county taxpayers. A three percent late penalty will apply on 2017 property tax bills not paid by Tuesday, January 16. And some property owners are paying this week to […]

Plans are set for next week’s grand opening of a new Blue Ridge Bank office in Westminster.  The location will be 200 W. Windsor Street, where a week-long celebration of the new bank office will start at 11:30 Tuesday morning, January 2 with a ribbon-cutting and a performance by the Blue Ridge Mountain Cloggers.  The new office will offer a […]

If you were lucky enough, the Christmas holiday was your chance to open your home to visitors, both family and friends.  But, for many of the Christmas visitors to our area, it’s now time to head home.  One such couple stopped this morning at a Walhalla convenience store.  Their car is packed for a trip home to Virginia.  Former Westminster […]

Perhaps your New Year’s resolution is finding work or landing a better job.  Tri-County Technical College can help.  Tech will hold a job fair in the Industrial Business Development Center at its Pendleton campus during the evening of January 4.  From 3 to 4 pm that Thursday, the job fair will cater to Tech students and veterans.  Then, from 4 […]

Right at the top of the agenda for the first Pickens County Council meeting of the New Year is recognition to a team of Liberty High School students for outstanding performance.  When the council meets at 6:30 Tuesday night, January 4 in Pickens, there will be consideration for a resolution to recognize the Liberty High J-ROTC Raider Team for its […]