Author: Dick Mangrum

In the not-too-distant future, when all the cars on the roads drive themselves, traffic and traffic lights won’t be necessary. Americans, who currently spend 7 billion hours and 3 billion gallons of extra fuel a year sitting in traffic, will have to find new excuses for being late. “Our cities are very congested and a lot of that congestion happens […]

Oconee County can hold out little or no hope to ever recovering part of a payroll theft last year committed by high tech culprits unknown. The FBI took the case of what Sheriff Crenshaw said amounted to $200 thousand dollars lost. But yesterday Crenshaw rated the chances of ever getting that money back “slim to none.” The problem, as he […]

Sheriff Mike Crenshaw envisions bus loads of high-minded Oconeeans on their way to some of the county’s worst spots for litter.  As part of his office’s efforts to stop littering, Crenshaw is working on plans for a one-day countywide cleanup.  Yesterday he received a commitment from Dr. Michael Thorsland, school district superintendent, to make available the buses that Crenshaw will […]

A rumor swirling within Seneca’s Ramcat Alley is that Mayor Dan Alexander’s switch to the Republican Party positions him for a potential run for District Two, State House of Representatives.  The seat is now held by Bill Sandifer, Seneca’s representative since 1995.  But Alexander is non-committal when asked whether he’ll run for the House, for which the next election is […]

  Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw says an opioid epidemic has begun to exert a grip on South Carolina, so much that the abuse of prescription painkillers is over-taking methamphetamine as society’s top drug problem.  Crenshaw expressed a worry today for the future and urged Walhalla Rotary Club members to become familiar with various painkillers such as lortab hydrocondone, among others, […]

Red Cross help, such as blankets to protect from the cold, was been extended to a family of five near Seneca—the result of a late Friday night home fire near S. Radio Station Road.  According to Red Cross disaster-trained volunteers, four of the five are adults; one is a child.  Chief Jan Oliver of the Seneca Fire Department said the […]

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza was confirmed Saturday in a commercial flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee.  Dr. Boyd Parr, the South Carolina state veterinarian, urges all sectors of the South Carolina poultry industry to intensify bio-security efforts.  The Tennessee case is the first confirmed case influenza of that type in commercial poultry in the United States in 2017, and was confirmed by […]