Author: Dick Mangrum

A storage unit caught fire at Fair Play, on the Feltman Road.  Oconee Rural Fire sounded the alarm just after 9:30 last night.

A 35-year-old Oconeean is being allowed to remain on home incarceration, in this instance, as part of the court sentence that settles his case of sexual exploitation of a minor third degree.  Ernest Joseph McDonald pleaded guilty this afternoon in front of Judge Scott Sprouse.  The sentence:  10 years prison, suspended to three years home incarceration, followed by five years […]

Under old business, Westminster City Council will consider a final reading tomorrow of an inducement agreement for the Spinx convenience store chain to locate a new store in the city at E. Main Street and SC 24/the West-Oak Highway.  It’s an agenda item for the 6 pm regular April council meeting at the Fire Department.

Ron Wygal of Simpsonville, South Carolina and Dallas, Texas is going to respond to the South Carolina PRT call for requests for proposals to develop the 325-acre Lake Hartwell peninsula in Oconee County.  His construction company is working with the Philadelphia office of an international architect firm.  Wygal has interest in at least part of the peninsula to build a […]

Smoke disbursed Friday from a Georgia prescribed burn all the way into Walhalla and as far south as the Bountyland Community near Seneca.  Sky 96.3 Clayton Radio reported a 1,261 acre burn inside the Chattooga Ranger District, five miles northeast of Clayton.  It prompted Mountain Rest Fire Department to post:  “The wind is blowing our direction.”

The kitchen at the Clemson University Madren Center anticipates a greater demand once the new alumni and visitor center is finished.  The board of trustees will use $3.6 million in housing and dining money, along with an additional $700 thousand, to upgrade the kitchen.  The trustees last week also approved two main campus projects:  a $2.5M expansion to the R-4 […]

A luncheon at the new Seneca Middle School is a sellout.  Friday’s event, arranged by Oconee County and the chamber of commerce, will serve as the annual “State of Oconee” and is considered the first venue at the school scheduled to open later this year.  Tours will be offered following the meal and the lineup of speakers.

An apartment in Bountyland was burglarized twice on the same day, but the sheriff’s office made an arrest.  According to the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, Angel Dawn Holloway, 34, is charged with petty larceny, along with first and second degree burglary.  Deputies investigated burglaries, one in the morning, one in the evening, at Gail Court.  Clothing items were stolen.