Author: Dick Mangrum

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 […]

Two cars traveling highway 28, the Blue Ridge Boulevard, made contact this morning, but the occupants avoided injury.  One car wound up in the median; the second crossed the opposite lanes of traffic and wound up in a ditch.  It happened just south of the West Union Road turn near the Poplar Springs Bridge.  A wrecker was required to remove […]

The occupant of a southern Oconee County home lost the premises in a fire around 10 o’clock yesterday morning.  One adult lived in the Fisher’s Cove Road home near the Feltman Road, according to Larry Wilkerson, chief of the Fair Play Fire Department.

A crowd of an anticipated 110 Oconee Republicans made their way to the Lighthouse Event Center on Lake Keowee.  The April meeting of Oconee County Republican Men featured a salmon main course and a speaker’s dais of five members of the one-year-old South Carolina Freedom Caucus.  It’s a group of conservative state representatives who are out to shake up the […]

A Walhalla High fine arts production will be staged next weekend as part of a two-night run in the school auditorium.  It’s the school music theatre’s version of “Disenchanted” at 7 o’clock each night Friday, May 5 and Saturday, May 6.  Advance tickets are $10 dollars online and can also be purchased at the door each night for $15 dollars.  […]

Photographs taken and the memories brought back are telling the story of a trip to New York City by 37 Seneca High School chorus students.  Accompanied by 17 adults, the Seneca chorus performed April 16 at Carnegie Hall.  Conducted by Dr. Allyss Haecker, they sang three songs and received a standing ovation after having been part of eight hours of […]

After two days of balloting, Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative announced the results of a two-way contest for an open Anderson county seat on its board of directors.  The ballot count added up to victory for Will Anderson, a row crop farmer.  Anderson tallied 4,296 votes; his competitor, Paul Brown, the long time news media broadcaster and photojournalist, received 2,564 votes.  […]

Both sides in the week-long Oconee civil court trial rested their cases last evening.  The proceedings resume at 9:30 this morning at the courthouse with closing arguments and the judge’s explanation of the law.  Then the jurors will retire to their private room to deliberate a verdict.  After the sale of 123 Seneca ByPass business property, the buyer filed a […]