Author: Dick Mangrum

A 26-year-old Greer, South Carolina man, Nicolas Elias Fernandez, has been identified as the victim in Monday’s officer-involved shooting outside a home on Rolling Hills Circle, Easley.  According to Chief Deputy Coroner Andrew Wilson of Pickens County, Fernandez was struck multiple times.  The state police say Fernandez was armed with an axe.

Seneca can now track where its visitors come from, how long they stay, and which events they attend.  It’s all possible, the city administrator says, through the city’s arrangement with the Placer data service.  Administrator Moulder last night demonstrated for the city council some of the demographics of their visitors – most recently how many went to the July 4 […]

South Carolina DOT announces a new traffic alignment at Fair Play.  The new alignment is to start on or about Wednesday, July 17 at SC 182 (Oakway Road) to tie into SC 59.  S&S Construction is overseeing the construction activities.

The winner of his party’s nomination for 10th Circuit Solicitor, Micah Black, made an Oconee County speaking appearance this morning.  The chamber of commerce coffee event enabled the audience to learn the mindset of the young man who is in line to succeed the retiring David Wagner as chief Oconee-Anderson prosecutor.  An Anderson resident, Black said he, like Wagner, will […]

Not all of the parties to the Duke Energy rate increase signed off.  A spokesman for the Public Service Commission says the state Department of Consumer Affairs did not sign the agreement that allows Duke Energy Carolinas to implement the increases as early as August 1.  Rob Bockman, PSC spokesman, says the PSC partially accepted and approved the agreement proposed […]

One of the east Texas counties hit hard by Beryl is Rusk County, believed to have been named for a 19th century political and military leader.  A 101.7/WGOG listener points out that Thomas Jefferson Rusk was born in what today is Oconee County.  According to his profile, Rusk served as a general at the Battle of San Jacinto, later a […]

The state police say a man died Monday in an officer-involved shooting in Pickens County.  “SLED” has released the following details about what happened:  “The Easley Police Department received multiple 911 calls about a man armed with a baseball bat making threats, shoplifting, then leaving a Tractor Supply Company Store.  An officer responded to the calls and encountered the man […]

All of South Carolina is now at “some level of drought” — as the state’s drought response committee upgraded the drought designation for all counties, which had previously been normal or no drought.  Oconee is rated “incipient” the first stage of drought levels. Driving this decision are the impacts to crops and livestock producers, rapidly declining stream flows and an […]

Residents at Seneca’s Field Village apartments spotted fire in one of the units; a bystander entered the apartment and extricated a 61-year-old woman.  Coroner Karl Addis says the woman was found in cardiac arrest and notwithstanding life-saving measures by responders, she was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:40 last night.  Her name will be disclosed today.  An autopsy has […]