Author: Dick Mangrum

A reminder today from the Oconee Sheriff’s Office about the dangers of drinking and driving.  For some, it’s a popular past time during the holidays.  But Jimmy Watt, sheriff’s spokesman, recommends that those who consume the spirits to have a designated driver and make sure everyone in your car is wearing a seatbelt.  To protect home and property, Sheriff Mike […]

  A fifth grade student at Fair Oak Elementary School, Sidney Doyle, recently donated children’s books to the SDOC Department of Early Learning. Sidney is an active Girl Scout in Troop 1543 and has been working on her Bronze Award, the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can achieve. The award requires the Girl Scout to plan a project that […]

In a year that set records for severe and devastating weather, the American Red Cross says it provided more assistance to the hundreds of thousands of people impacted by disasters across the United States than in the past two years combined. In 2016, 32,000 Red Cross volunteers responded to 180 significant disasters in 45 states and two U.S. territories including […]

A logging accident near Walhalla has hospitalized one man.  The fire department reports a tree fell on the man late yesterday afternoon on Earlestead Drive.  A medic helicopter flew the injured logger to Greenville Memorial Hospital, from a landing spot nearby on Razorback Lane at the Walhalla Middle School.  No immediate word on his identity or his condition.

The police in Seneca charged a 40-year old man with car theft and other offenses in the investigation of an incident that started at the Shaver Recreation Complex and led to the discovery of the stolen car in a church parking lot.  Authorities filed charges of financial transaction card fraud, financial transaction card theft, and grand larceny against Hickory, North […]

The busy Oconee T-intersection of 123 and the Wells Highway near Blue Ridge Orthopedics re-opened to all traffic last evening—after several hours of cleanup and the removal of two wrecked tractor-trailer trucks.  The accident occurred yesterday morning during a heavy fog that enveloped parts of Oconee County near Lake Hartwell.  What happened was of no surprise to the nearby Lee […]

A $44 million dollar interchange is going to be built near Charleston, a project that the state’s transportation chief says is an example of how the public transportation system supports economic development.  The DOT awarded Conti Enterprises the contract to build the new interchange on I-26 that will provide  interstate access for the new $500 million Volvo plant under construction […]

A former manager of Oconee’s Salem branch library now serves as system director of the Kemper-Newton Regional Library in rural Mississippi.  Meredith Wickham started her career in public libraries as a volunteer at the Seneca branch library.  In 2013, she moved with her husband who took a teaching position at Mississippi State University.  Meredith Wickham is active in the Association […]