Author: Dick Mangrum

Joshua Harrison will leave the principal’s job at Fair-Oak Elementary to move to Ravenel Elementary in the same capacity.  Oconee School District announces the move of Harrison, as the result of last night’s meeting of the county trustees.  In another move of transition, Sarah Melton will leave her position as special education coordinator at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary School to […]

A regulatory board in Seneca welcomed the ambitious plans of an Atlanta developer to convert a dilapidated former textile property into a multi-housing complex inside an economic opportunity zone adjoining the Utica Community.  This was accomplished on two votes last night by the city planning commission:  one to annex what used to be a J-P Stevens plant and the second […]

One hour later yesterday a section of east bound 123 traffic on the Seneca-Clemson Corridor remained in single file in the vicinity of a serious car accident near the Wells Highway.  A small white car was relegated to the grass median with heavy damage front and back.  An ambulance was seen at the accident location around 5:30 pm.

The bodies of two Pickens County teenagers have been recovered from Lake Hartwell near Central.  The coroner’s office says the deaths of Zakaria Chaar, 15, of Central and Ryan Alnasser, 16, of Clemson are under investigation as drownings.  The death scene was Pike Road and Six Mile Highway, Central.

The opening of a new Seneca restaurant — and its offer of free coffee for the first 100 customers — has brought out the crowds this morning.  Parking is at a premium this morning in and around the new Dunkin Donuts on the 123 Bypass.