Author: Dick Mangrum

Announcement today of a fine dining, yet casual, restaurant for Main Street, Walhalla.  The location is Durham Hall, the building that Lana and Bruce Justus, renovated but have now sold to a pair of nearby Main Street entrepreneurs:  Alisaun and Mike Crenshaw.  To be called “The Southern Bull” – the restaurant is projected for an early 2024 opening and a […]

The testimony by a crime victim’s mother led-off the Oconee General Sessions trial – South Carolina vs. Tony Avella Sanders.  The defendant is charged with burglary third degree, petty larceny at a Walhalla-Westminster Highway property that the owner intended to renovate a house for living purposes.  In an opening statement to the jury, the prosecutor blamed Sanders and a second […]

Late this morning jury selection began at the Oconee Courthouse in SC vs. Tony Avella Sanders.  The Walhalla man was charged in 2021 with burglary third degree first offense in an incident on SC 183/the Walhalla-Westminster Highway, in which Sanders allegedly broke into a building belonging to Benny Paul Blackwell “without consent and with the intent to commit a crime,” […]

The Pickens County coroner, Kandy Kelley, has identified two Clemson residents as having been killed in last night’s SC 11 accident in her county.  The dead were passengers Alberta Oduraa Quartey, 23, and Abena Gyamfua, 31.  The two died at the scene of the 10:30 accident at SC 11 and Elizabeth Drive.

The state patrol reports two passengers in a BMW have died in a late night accident last night in rural Pickens County.  The accident on SC 11 near Elizabeth Drive injured a third BMW passenger and the driver.  Both were taken to hospital, as well as the driver of a second vehicle, a Jeep SUV.  According to trooper Nick Pye, […]

Members of the Keowee Toxaway Amateur Radio Club will take part in a national amateur radio field day exercise this weekend on the grounds of Duke’s World of Energy in Oconee County.  Ham radio operators or, Hams, as they are called will showcase the science and skill of amateur radio operators.  The event Saturday and Sunday afternoons is open to […]

The man who drowned Friday on the Hart County, Georgia side of Lake Hartwell has been identified as Constantin Pascal, a 44-year old father who jumped into the water to help his son.  Pascal’s body was recovered Saturday.  WLHR Lavonia quotes Hart County Sheriff Mike Cleveland as saying a family was boating on the lake Friday afternoon at Paynes Creek […]

A ceremony on Saturday near Seneca memorialized two Oconee fallen marines, and the event volunteers marked the occasion by dedicating a new playground that Wild Hearts Equine may use to serve its clients and their family members.  The playground was built from scratch by volunteers from BASF’s VETS team, an employee group of veterans dedicated to community service.  The new […]

At its meeting tomorrow night, Oconee County Council is scheduled to consider a request by county staff to re-evaluate a hiring freeze that prevents the county from filling as many as 17 positions.  They would be to cover vacancies that have occurred because of retirement, what are called alternative employment opportunities and other circumstances.  If Council say yes to all […]