Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

A proposed budget to operate Westminster city government in 2023-24 is ready for the first of two required readings by the city council.  First reading planned for Tuesday, May 9.  For all purposes, it is proposed, the city expenses approach $28.5 million.  “Most notably,” says city administrator Kevin Bronson, is a proposed reduction in the City’s millage rate of 3.5 […]