Author: Dick Mangrum

Nature was kind yesterday to Walhalla—a break from the July blast furnace heat.  At Walhalla’s Hickory Hollow farm, the high temp was just 78 degrees.  Official weather watcher Barbara Wilson entered one-quarter inch of rain for the 24 hours reported to the National Weather Service.

West-Oak Middle School gets a new assistant principal for the new year that starts Thursday next week.  Action yesterday, in a special board of trustees meeting, named Stanley Antonio Scott to the job.  Scott is a West-Oak High graduate who holds degrees from Anderson University and Clemson University.  His work background includes five years in the classroom and three in […]

A post by an officer of the Oconee Democratic Party has cost her the position she held with the local party.  The post by vice chair Mary Anne Grabarcyzk referred to the attempted Donald Trump assassination this month in Pennsylvania.  The Oconee Democratic Party issued the following response:  “This comment by Mary Anne Grabarcyzk does not represent the views or […]

An Oconee County Democrat is excited she’ll be a delegate to next month’s Democratic National Convention.  Jody Gaulin, a former county party chairwoman, will head to Chicago as one of three delegates from the South Carolina 3rd Congressional District.  The convention will run August 19-22.  For Gaulin, she’s most looking forward to hearing her party’s presumptive nominee for president, Kamala […]

A judge in Pickens County next month will hear pre-trial motions in the case of Kimberly Parnell, Lakeview Apartments vs. city of Clemson, CS Acquisition LLC and Keowee Trail LLC.  The plaintiffs have challenged the formula that Clemson used to approve the HUB project that they say will mean a seven-story apartment complex with retail spaces on the first floor.  […]

South Carolina deer hunters, keep an eye on your mailbox:  Deer tags should be arriving soon.  Hunters who have an annual or three-year hunting license and big game permit, combination license or sportsman license, which will be valid on August 15, should automatically receive a base set of deer tags.  Keep in mind, around 200 thousand sets of tags, are […]

Legal difficulties mount for a 36-year-old Seneca man.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Carl Lee Robert Price was charged last week with sexual exploitation of a minor.  On July 9, Price was arrested by a U-S Marshals Task Force in Union County, South Carolina and, after being bonded out of jail, was turned over to FBI custody.  Oconee Sheriff’s […]

Significant rains have led to improving drought indicators statewide.  A member of the South Carolina Drought Response Committee, Athena Strickland, says in the last two weeks in the northeast/Pee Dee areas rain has measured between 2 and 6 inches, with more indicated for the immediate forecast.  However, while the Little Pee Dee River and the Black River have shown some […]