Author: Dick Mangrum

A week ahead of graduation, top Oconee County high school seniors were recognized for their academic success.  Those members of this year’s senior classes who earned a GPA of 4.25 or higher were honored during an event last week at Walhalla High School.   Each class of graduates at the county’s four high schools nominated the elementary, middle, and high school […]

Candidates for three seats on the Oconee County Council are scheduled to speak during a forum tonight at Seneca.  Everyone is invited.  Tonight’s forum, arranged by the League of Women Voters, takes place 6 to 7:30 at the Gignilliat Community Center.

After a well-attended concert performed by the Temptations Review, it’s back to business tonight for the elected leaders of Seneca.  They have scheduled a budget work meeting at 6 o’clock at City Hall.  Saturday night’s concert on the Gignilliat Field was interrupted by a power failure to the stage.  It came about an hour into the performance and before the […]

A Columbia man is out on bond after being cited for boating under the influence on Lake Hartwell over the weekend. According to Georgia Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement officer Craig Fulghum it happened just after midnight Sunday morning between the Big Oaks Recreation area and the Hartwell Dam. Fulghum said two people were in the boat and suffered minor […]

Oconee County has received confirmation from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) of a positive test result of West Nile Virus from its routine mosquito surveillance program. This is not an uncommon occurrence as the virus has been around for many years. West Nile Virus is transmitted to people and animals through the bite of an […]

An Indiana company could become Oconee’s next industrial plum.  Richard Blackwell, the county’s director of economic development, holds out high hopes for a project code-named “Project Hawk.” The possibility was described today as an Indiana company that is interested in moving a line of production to Oconee or Mexico, but Blackwell says his office has been able to convince the […]

  A 42-year old man was arrested early today after a police chase that ended on a dead-end road in Anderson near the man’s home at Fair Play.  Oconee officers say they went to a home on Tugaloo Heights Circle as part of an investigation of a domestic dispute.  Deputies approached the suspect, Dennis Ralph Roberts Jr., at the home, […]

  All Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests (FMS) offices and ranger stations will be closed Monday, May 30 in observance of Memorial Day. Regular business hours will resume on Tuesday, May 31. For the safety of visitors, some fire personnel, law enforcement officers, and recreation staff will be working over the Memorial Day weekend.  The Forest Service reminds everyone […]

A postscript today to the Michelin company decision to bypass Oconee County for Spartanburg County for its new distribution center.  Richard Blackwell called it very said.  The executive director of Oconee Economic Alliance said his staff and the Oconee County Council had invested three years into attempting to land the distribution center and place it in the county’s undeveloped Golden […]