Author: Dick Mangrum

The Oconee Food Council is promoting an event tomorrow morning in Seneca.  The Food Council is treating local farmers who operate and supply the various farmers markets in the county to a breakfast in the morning at the Blue Ridge Community Center.

In the 9 o’clock hour this morning, an accident at one of Walhalla’s busiest intersections:  Main Street and College.  One car believed to have sustained heavy body damage; EMS among the responders to the accident.

At 10 this morning, a ribbon is to be cut to open a new steakhouse in Oconee County.  It’s a Longhorn restaurant on an out parcel inside Hartwell Village.  And Dari McBride, the chamber president, is headed there.

Oconee veteran Frankie Pearson wishes that certain others had found the time to attend the annual ceremony held in memory of 210 Oconee servicemen who went off to war and never returned.  By certain others, Pearson means the members of the Oconee County Council.  Pearson surveilled the audience and could not find anyone of the council, nor any of the […]

Under the theme “Remembering All Who Served”, the annual Memorial Day observance by the Oconee Veterans Council took place yesterday at Walhalla’s Center for the Performing Arts.  Special emphasis was placed on the 210 Oconee servicemen who died in the country’s wars since the First World War.  Organizers and supporters were disappointed by the small audience than usual, but that […]

A bicyclist has died the result of an accident involving an SUV yesterday afternoon in Anderson.  The coroner’s office is withholding the name of the deceased until family members are notified.  The highway patrol reported the accident just before 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon on W. Market Street not far from the Anderson city limits.  According to Coroner Greg Shore, preliminary […]