Author: Dick Mangrum

Church missions will benefit from a BBQ dinner to be served this Saturday by Walhalla Presbyterians, and Jess Neville is the man to see about tickets.  They cost $12 dollars and are available at Neville Hardware at West Union at 864-638-2531.  For $12 dollars, you can enjoy barbecue pork, slaw, baked beans, bread, water or tea, and cookies.  The event […]

A federally chartered health clinic arrived in Westminster on Friday afternoon when the board of directors of the Rosa Clark Health Center showed off their satellite facility on E. Main Street.  A number of prominent city officials were on hand for a combination open house/drop-in in what used to be a place of worship behind the county magistrate’s office.  In […]

Oconeeans of a senior age who have questions about next month’s coupon distribution, as sponsored by the United Way, should call the Oconee County United Way at 864/882-9743.  The United Way is renting facilities at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center for the Tuesday, June 4 event.  And LaShauna Harrison of the United Way says the Blue Ridge Community Center is […]

Whether you think Oconee spends too much on public education — or not enough — there’s opportunity tonight for you to register your thoughts.  At its 6 o’clock meeting at district headquarters, the county trustees will entertain public comment on their spending plan for 2024-25.

A 40-year-old Six Mile man was pronounced dead at the scene of a late Friday night accident in Pickens County near the Oconee County line.  Andrew Wilson, chief Pickens County deputy coroner, said Jonathan Reid Hancock at the time was driving a Volkswagen on the Old Seneca Road when the car went off the side of the road near Issaqueena […]

A film crew was in action last night at Westminster’s Relax Inn.  They are said to be filming for a movie titled, “Money by Sundown.”  And they are to capture additional scenes today or tomorrow at the Broken Bridges off 123 near the Georgia line.  Kevin Bronson, city administrator, says in his last conversation with the crew, they indicated they’ll […]

Budget time has arrived in Westminster.  One of the decisions to be in front of the city council next week is whether to give first reading to the new city budget for 2024-25.  First reading is to take place during the 6 o’clock meeting Tuesday night at the fire department.  For all purposes, the projects a steep increase in spending:  […]

Seneca City Council will hear from Scott Moulder, the city administrator, next week about smoking at city events.  It’s an item for Tuesday night’s council meeting agenda.  Moulder last year announced the city had received increasing complaints from upset non-smokers about smoke from cigars and cigarettes at city-sponsored events.  At that time, Moulder said he wanted time to come up […]

Separate high-speed chases temporarily closed parts of I-85 in northeast Georgia.  In those incidents, there were injuries and a death.  The Georgia State Patrol reported two people hurt just before the noon hour in a chase northbound that started near mile marker 173.  A 31-year-old Californian was identified as the driver of a Yukon that hit a guardrail and overturned.  […]