Author: Dick Mangrum

Walhalla and Westminster are asking their sanitation customers to secure their rolling trash can carts to prevent the high winds from blowing them away until the storm passes on Tuesday.  The public works departments of the two municipalities also request that customers to not place brush and other debris by the sides of the roads.

The Pioneer water plant trial ended a week ago, and tomorrow the water district board will receive a report from its attorneys.  Terry Pruitt, Pioneer general manager, says that report will be part of legal matters to be handled by the board during the executive session part of tomorrow afternoon’s meeting.  A ruling in the case by the Judge McIntosh is […]

A South Carolina couple are part of a class action lawsuit, alleging eye damage from using faulty eclipse glasses.  Thomas Corey Payne and fiancée Kayla Harris claim using fake eclipse glasses on August 21 left them with headaches and temporary vision loss and impairment.  They are blaming the retailer Amazon, from whom Payne says he brought a three-pack of eyeglasses […]

A field of three candidates has emerged in Salem for the town election in November.  Two seats on town council are available.  Lynn Towe is a challenging for a seat.  Two councilmen are running again.  They are Tony Grogan and Russell Patterson.

Considerations with the approaching hurricane and the track it will take have forced Oconee Republican Party to postpone Monday night’s public safety awareness event at the Seneca Gignilliat Community Center.  According to Bill Jerome, party chairman, sheriff’s officials and county emergency service personnel who were to conduct the program are having to stay ready to respond where they may be […]

Canadian ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the U-N designee Louise Blais will be at Clemson University tomorrow to speak on “Women’s Leadership in Business and Government.”  Officially she will take on the role of Ambassador on Monday, and is the second female in Canadian history to be appointed to that position.  Blais will speak from 11:15 to 12:15 in […]

Crimes up and down the Toccoa Highway and in other parts of Oconee have led the Sheriff’s Office to arrest two women on multiple charges.  Oconee County resident Cindy Jean Connnally Gilliam faces charges of larceny and breaking into motor vehicles, among other charges.  On August 24 a business owner on the Old Toccoa Highway near Westminster alerted investigators to the […]