Author: Dick Mangrum

A second arrest has been made in the Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation of two burglaries in March near Seneca.  The arrest of Audrey Lynn Sosby of the Adam Sullivan Road took place yesterday and, according to the Sheriff’s Office, the 22-year old Sosby is charged with larcenies and second degree burglary.  Last week the Sheriff’s Office arrested and booked Austin […]

Grading on the property that will become three new education facilities has transformed the look of Oconee’s Information and Technology Park on highway 11.  A ceremony next month will serve as the groundbreaking for the Oconee Workforce Development Center.   Steve Hanvey of the Oconee School District says on 27 acres there will be Tri-County Tech’s Oconee campus and the school […]

A Clemson woman, Holley Ulbrich, has been elected as co-president of the South Carolina League of Women Voters.  She is a 50-year member of the league.  Ulbrich has disengaged herself from the Clemson Area League of Women Voters, leaving both Janie Shipley and Eleanor Hare in charge.  During the summer, the league takes a break but will re-group in the […]

A familiar saying is April showers bring May flowers.  Around these parts, however, you might be able to say that May showers will bring June flowers.  During May, according to the U-S Weather Observer in Walhalla, an above average 7.69″ was measured.  “We’re doing well,” says Barbara Wilson, the weather observer.  All that rain bodes well toward alleving drought conditions.

Oconee County has identified a Spartanburg County company as its recommended outside service to conduct building inspections.  According to the next week’s meeting agenda, the county council will consider a recommendation to employ RCI South Carolina of Pacolet “for building inspections at the rate of 75% of building permit fees collected.”  Edda Cammick, council chairwoman, speaking last week to the […]

There is something to be said for just showing up.  Four members of the Oconee County senior class graduate Saturday having attained perfect, 12-year attendance records.  The following graduates achieved that distinction:  Darla Chastain of Seneca High School; Ashton Burrell of Walhalla High; and Ross Cater and Ethan Canupp of West-Oak High School.  The four are among 59 students statewide […]

The goals and aspirations for Westminster are contained in a plan that will be reviewed at 6 o’clock tonte in the training room of the city fire department at 216 Emergency Lane.  Interested members of the public are invited by the city planning commission for a hearing on the proposed comprehensive plan.  City Administrator Chris Carter will speak and Jennifer […]

Fire fighters attended to a machine fire this morning at the Ulbrich manufacturing plant on SC 183/the Westminster Highway.  Plant workers were evacuated, but no one injured. According to Rural Fire Control, the fire was confined to one machine.

The police in Westminster are calling a Memorial Day weekend incident a case of aggravated assault involving gunfire.  The police were sent around 4 o’clock Sunday morning to a home on Cornelia Avenue and found one man on the ground with a gunshot wound to his upper leg.  According to the police, the wounded man later struck an EMS worker […]