Author: Dick Mangrum

Oconee sewer commissioners wondered aloud how they’ll have adequate time Friday to explain to county leaders all of the issues on their minds.  At the May meeting yesterday of the board of the Joint Regional Sewer Commission, the commissioners reviewed a printed agenda prepared for Friday morning’s joint meeting with the Oconee County Council.  They were surprised to learn that […]

Two fires today are reported by Westminster Fire Department. Shortly before 3 am a fire was stopped at a home on Oak Grove Road. Shortly before 7, fire at a vacant mobile home on Dana Drive near the Clearmont Road.

A publicly unidentified suspect is in custody in Stephens County, Georgia after, what’s reported, 18 rounds of gunfire were unloaded at deputies as officers answered a suspicious person complaint in the vicinity of Valley Drive. Radio WNEG reported deputies faced a suspect carrying a semi-automatic rifle.  The suspect’s gunfire grazed one deputy sheriff and sprayed the windshield and driver’s side […]

SC DOT announces a bridge near Seneca is closed for repairs.  Traffic is being detoured to avoid the Radisson Road above the Coneross Creek.

A 16-year-old boy died in a one-car accident last evening on SC 187/the Wild Hog Road in Anderson County.  Chief Deputy Coroner Don McCown said the victim, Kveon M. Willis of Royston, Georgia, was a student-athlete at Madison County High School in Danielsville, Georgia.  McCown reported that the investigation shows Kveon was an unrestrained front-seat passenger in a Honda headed […]

The Allen Green marker was unveiled in a Saturday afternoon ceremony in Walhalla.  The marker, depicting an unsavory episode in long-ago Oconee County race relations, takes up a corner position on the grounds of the Oconee Courthouse.  The spot is maybe 50 yards from where a mob of white people overpowered the sheriff and his one deputy in 1930 and […]

An Oconee jury returned verdicts early this afternoon in favor of the plaintiff, settling a week-long civil trial in the Common Pleas Court at Walhalla.  For breach of contract, the jury granted plaintiff 4105 Liberty Highway $850 thousand in actual damages and $400 thousand in punitive damages.  The damages are assessed against defendant Redland Properties.  For the claim of negligence, […]

A new historic marker has gone up in the vicinity of the Oconee Courthouse.  Sources are saying it’s a marker at S. Tugaloo and Short streets to remember Allen Green, a prisoner killed at the hands of an angry mob nearly 100 years ago.  Covered now, the marker, it is said, is to be unveiled AT 3 pm tomorrow by […]