Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee is about to be covered by a flood watch.  The wet autumn continues to present impediments to progress in the Walhalla Streetscape project, with the contractor saying today that the “slightest threat of rain” will delay this week’s plans for new sidewalk, curb and gutter on the north side of Main Street, along with water line work from the […]

United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina Bill Nettles announced Monday  that Piedmont Pathology Associates, Inc. and Piedmont Pathology, P.C., a diagnostic anatomic pathology group located in Hickory, North Carolina, has agreed to pay the United States $500,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians.  Mr. […]

Senator Tim Scott is bringing a Senate field hearing to Columbia on Friday to deal with efforts to help small business recover from October’s severe storms.  A panel is being assembled for “Strategies for Rebuilding:  An Examination of Small Business Recovery Efforts in South Carolina.”  Scott, a South Carolina Republican, and members of the Senate Committee on Small Business and […]

Any time retired U-S Army Col. Ben Skardon steps onto the Clemson University campus, all eyes turn to him.  On Military Appreciation Day at the school, the 98-year old Second World War veteran sat in a crowd of news media and admirers at the foot of the Memorial Stadium flagpole.  That day the flagpole was permanently dedicated to him, and […]

New voting locations are in the wings for two Oconee County precincts.  The Registration and Elections Commission Office announced today the changes will apply to the voters in Oakway and Stamp Creek—beginning with the Presidential primary elections in February.  No longer will Oakway voters cast ballots at the intermediate school.  Instead, starting in February, they will vote at the Oakway […]

A 36-year old man in Seneca has been arrested and charged with taking television sets from the Wal-Mart on five occasions in the months of September and October.  Oconee sheriff’s officers served warrants at the Clemson City Jail, charging Leon Brian Hardee with multiple incidents of shoplifting.  

Seneca’s 6 o’clock Christmas parade takes place “rain or shine,” according to Jillian Lusk of Oconee Chamber of Commerce.  But rain has taken a toll on tomorrow’s parade plans in Clemson.  The city has announced that the Clemson parade will not take place tomorrow.  The new date is Thursday, with pre-parade festivities starting at 5 o’clock.