Author: Dick Mangrum

The board of directors for a regional government service agency based at Greenville, with Oconee County representation, is charged with promoting prosperity, community development, and quality of life within the region.  Yet when it comes to the area’s major electric power supplier, the board of the South Carolina Appalachian Council of Governments has gone on record against Duke Energy’s controversial […]

Once again the business of the Greenville Health System, parent company of Oconee Memorial, is a $2 billlion dollar-plus budget.  The trustees who set the policy for all hospitals within GHS are meeting this morning to consider a 2016 budget to total $2.2 billion and create an additional 564 jobs.  For a third straight year, the recommendation is to hold […]

Hutch ‘N Son tried but, as the contractor’s Patty Hutchinson said, “The wet weather is stronger than we are.”  Duke Energy cancelled its plan to make an electric power changeover this morning at College and Main.  Demotion work is about to start on a third block—N. Main between Spring and College streets.

An ambulance transported one person from the scene of an accident this morning on South Carolina 59 about one mile south of 24/the West-Oak Highway.  According to a report from the Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department, the trouble there began with a disabled tractor-trailer truck.  A car struck a road tractor attempting to assist the large truck and, according to the […]

High school students who have interest in attending one of the U-S five service military academies can learn about the application and nomination process during an event from 3 to 4:30 this afternoon at the Anderson County Library at 300 N. McDuffie Street in Anderson.  Senator Tim Scott has directed members of his staff to be present during the 90-minute […]

A state grant will allow Westminster to replace three police cars.  The Office of Highway Safety and Justice Programs of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety awarded nearly $83 thousand dollars, to be supplemented by an $8,200 grant from the city’s budget.  The new cars replace older cars with high mileage, which require more maintenance.  All three cars to […]

A work session of the Seneca City Council takes place at 6 tonight at City Hall, and the public may attend.  Among the agenda items are rezoning on Old Salem Road and the restroom project at the downtown bus station.

A recent network report indicated that, for the first time, the federal government finds that more than one-half of public school students live in poverty.  And Oconee school district officials say their county’s numbers mirror those the federal government has for the rest of the country.  If local district officials are surprised, they aren’t shocked.  “We know that, as the […]

An intersection in far northwest Oconee saw another traffic accident today.  At last word, state troopers had gone to the hospital to check on the status of three injured in today’s accident at U-S 76 and Thrift’s Ferry Road, not far from the river bridge to Georgia.  Charlie King of Oconee Emergency Services said today’s accident was the third there […]