Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

The West-Oak Warrior Percussion Ensemble took home a Percussion Scholastic Novice Division title during competition this year at the SC Band Directors Associations Winter Ensemble Championship.  The Warrior Percussions, in only their second year, prevailed over eight other competitors.  Director William Flynn holds auditions throughout the county for 7th – 12th grade students in November for area percussionist whose home school doesn’t […]

Two Oconee schools are announcing end-of-year honors at their schools.  At Seneca High School, the emphasis is on graduation this Saturday of the 208-member senior class.  Valedictorian will be Rachel Louann Strader; the salutatorian, Sally Elizabeth Cannon.  The seniors have amassed scholarship total of $15.5 million.  Thirty-one members of this year’s Seneca class are graduating with high honors.  Here’s a […]

A driving under suspension citation was issued last evening to the driver of a GMC Envoy that struck a N. Catherine Street building as it was pushed out of a ditch.  The accident involved the Walhalla Power Tumbling building and, as a result, forced the business to close until Monday.  According to Capt. Paul Harris, the accident occurred around 6 […]

  An avenue has opened for expanded bus service into new parts of Oconee County.  Ed Halbig announced at last night’s Seneca City Council meeting that, with a commitment from county government, the city Planning and Community Development Office will make application to the federal government for a LoNo grant designed for bus systems that offer no emission service thru […]

The former longtime Charleston mayor, Joe Riley, wants to raise money to allow his city to build an African-American museum.  And Riley was taken aback when told by Seneca Mayor Pro Tem Ronnie O’Kelley that Seneca had succeeded in opening its own museum to reflect African-American history.  Taken aback may be a mild reaction.  O’Kelley, who talked to Riley, said […]

In an early morning chase that covered parts of two counties, an Oconee County man was captured and charged with drug possession and ticketed with five traffic offenses.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office the chases in parts of Oconee and Anderson counties started when a deputy determined that an SUV had displayed the wrong license plate.  And it ended […]

After a closed-door session at City Hall, Seneca’s elected leaders added a property to its Improvement Corporation.  By vote of the council, on a motion by Anthony Herman Smith, 209 E-S 2nd Street is now part of the Seneca Improvement Corporation.