Author: Dick Mangrum

Phillip Cheney, director of Oconee Public Libraries, served as a guest speaker to management information classes at Clemson University, where he got the chance to talk about the country’s digital divide.  For someone making his way in the 21st century, you don’t want to be on the other side of the digital divide.  According to one definition, a digital divide […]

Clemson University scientist David Feliciano recently received a three-year, $442,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how alterations to a complex pathway in the developing brain cause a constellation of neurological disorders, including the simultaneous presence of autism and epilepsy. The project will test the hypothesis that a transporter of amino acids in the brain regulates the […]

More consideration will be given before a committee decides to award state money for a deceleration lane in front of the property designated for a Zaxby’s restaurant in Walhalla.  At this morning’s meeting, on behalf of the city, Tally Grant presented a request to commit $120 thousand for a lane to allow westbound highway 28 traffic to slow down and […]

  In a vote of 3-0, Oconee’s state “C” Fund Committee committed nearly one million dollars today to pay for the final phase of a Seneca project to re-pave and widen N. Townville Street.  Chairman Sam Dickson gavev the exact amount–$991,598.06. The work, from the downtown to the overhead bridge above the By-Pass, has been done in phases.  The third […]

The next Pill Take Back Day, sponsored by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, will take place Saturday, October 22 in the Sheriff’s Office substation near the Oconee Memorial Hospital emergency room. From 10 until 2 that day, the following items will be accepted for disposal:  old or no longer needed prescription medication, in pill or liquid form, along with over the […]

Pickens County network is back up and working properly. All daily operations will resume as scheduled.