Author: Dick Mangrum

  The refurbished home of Clemson’s basketball teams, Littlejohn, will cost more next year for high school graduation ceremonies.  Partly influenced by students and community feedback, Oconee school trustees made official this week their decision to re-book Littlejohn as the venue for next year’s high school graduation ceremonies.  Steve Hanvey, assistant superintendent of operations, says the cost to reserve Littlejohn […]

The results are in on tests taken by Oconee public school students to measure college readiness and career readiness.  The results were better in one than the other.  The county school district rated a top 20 finish in ACT WorkKeys, a job skills assessment valued by employers.  Oconee ranked number 18.  But its 11th graders finished average in the ACT, […]

Required approvals have delayed Seneca from carrying through with the city’s third dedicated bus stop for passengers of “CAT”—Clemson Area Transit.  It was about one year ago that the city’s point man for bus service, Ed Halbig, announced plans at a City Hall meeting to create a bus stop with seating at E-S 6th Street and Goddard Avenue.  But the […]

Judge Cordell Maddox at Anderson sentenced a 67-year old man, Charles Pickens, to 25 years in prison for felony DUI with death and leaving the scene of an accident.  The victim in February 2015 was Sandy Springs volunteer fire fighter Kenneth Stanton, who was directing traffic at an accident scene.  According to the 10th Circuit Solicitor’s Office, 15 years of […]

From the air this month, county and state drug officers spotted marijuana plants growing on property on the Sitton Mill Road south of Seneca.  That eventually led to the charge of manufacturing marijuana – 1st offense against a man who sheriff’s officers say lives at the address.  Matthew Kevin Bowen (left) was arrested today and jailed in Walhalla.  The charge […]

The Clemson-based Foothills Community Care Center is looking at expanding to Seneca’s Ramcat Alley, according to a member of the board of directors. Cindy Trimmier Lee spoke to the Seneca Rotary Club.  Foothills Community Care is a federally-qualified community health center.

Judge Lawton McIntosh says, at this time, he lacks sufficient evidence to decide whether the Oconee Board of Zoning Appeals acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it decided to grant an exception to allow a development company to build a Dollar General Store near a 4-way stop intersection.  An order, signed by the judge last week, remands the matter back to […]

An accused murderer who eluded authorities for nearly one year was returned to jail this morning, after being told by the Oconee General Sessions judge that, at least for now, he is not entitled to a bond.  A trial date has yet to be set in the case of Dw’Ntrquis Rashaad Campbell.  The Greenwood man is charged with murder and […]

The arrival of a charter school in Salem creates the chance for the town to team with the school to change the small town’s landscape and create economic development.  During a meeting last night, the town council resolved to make a September 30 deadline to apply for a $25 thousand grant from the state Municipal Association.  Brad Norton, town attorney, […]