Author: Dick Mangrum

  “This has slipped way beyond where we thought it would.”  That is part of the explanation that the Tri-County Tech president gave Oconee officials to describe the status of its timetable for the next major building at the college’s main campus.  During a budget request meeting, Tech’s Dr. Ronnie Booth told the Oconee County Council it won’t require a […]

The victim in yesterday’s fatal lawnmower accident near Seneca has been identified as Harvy Joe Price of Price Farm Road.  The “zero turn” mower Price was operating flipped into a ditch near his home, in the vicinity of the Radisson Road.  Coroner Karl Addis said it appears the lawn mower was in a reverse motion at the time of the […]

  The Walhalla police have arrested a 28-year old woman in a theft in March at a trailer home near the middle school.  The police identify the arrested woman—Amy Mechelle Duggan—as one of two suspects in the investigation of a theft on Happy Hollow Drive near SC 183, the Walhalla-Pickens Highway.  Duggan is charged with burglary second degree and petty […]

With the help of sponsors, volunteer organizations and postal workers, the National Association of Letter Carriers will hold its annual nationwide Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Saturday, May 14.  Last year’s drive collected more than 70 million pounds of non-perishable food that was left in bags next to patrons’ mailboxes.  In South Carolina last year, collections of more than 490 […]

A former Westminster resident, now living in Rock Hill, is behind an effort to create an official anthem for South Carolina.  Kevin Gray says he has taken the state’s motto, “While I Breathe, I Hope,” and composed a musical piece.  Gray says two Rock Hill state lawmakers, John King and Gary Simrill, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives […]

An affidavit to a warrant charges a Walhalla woman with indecent exposure at the Oconee jail.  According to the Sheriff’s Office, there’s a video from April 27 of Aimee Marie James (Shook) inside the visitation room, exposing a breast when requested by an inmate.  An investigator obtained a warrant and the woman was arrested yesterday. In South Carolina, the penalty […]

  An official of the Greater Oconee Chamber of Commerce in Seneca says  101.7/WGOG’s story on the possibility of three chambers of commerce becoming one contained an error.  Ed Halbig said, “We are not looking for an executive director at this time.  Instead, we are discussing the chambers coming together. The article gives the impression that we have a position […]

A 57 year-old Seneca man died last evening after a “zero turn” lawn mower he was operating overturned in a ditch.  This incident occurred near Seneca adjacent to Radisson Road and the Price Farm Road intersection.  Coroner Karl Addis said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.  This incident occurred shortly before 5:00 pm; the incident was discovered by […]

Sheriff Mike Crenshaw has enlisted the help of Keep Oconee Beautiful’s “Kobie the Bear” mascot in the fight against the crime of litter.  And this afternoon Crenshaw announced a social App, through which members of the public can anonymously report litter with the expectation that his office’s environmental services deputy will see to it that the litter is removed within […]