Author: Dick Mangrum

For those deemed qualified to sit in judgment of others, applications are invited for judicial offices across South Carolina.  Three judges with Oconee and Anderson backgrounds figure in on the changes ahead for the men and the women who wear the black robes.  The Court of Appeals seat held by former Senecan and now Supreme Court Justice-elect Letitia Verdin is […]

Pickens County is quite a distance from South Carolina Low Country.  But a collaborative act between the two worked for public betterment.  The Lowcountry Well-Being Team of South Carolina DSS is grateful to assistance offered by Pickens County.  Lowcountry recently had a youngster in emergency protective custody without a working wheelchair.  The youngster had a new chair in the Upstate, […]

Federal dollars are at work the next two weeks in Clemson.  Starting today to August 14, sewer work takes place on Clemson’s Martin Street — from Riggs Drive to Wyatt Avenue.  Only one lane of Martin Street will be open to residents.  Other traffic is to be detoured onto Riggs Drive, Mitchell Avenue, and Wyatt Avenue.  Funding the work is […]

The public is invited to Westminster to have a look and to comment on what’s being suggested for Downtown Streetscape Phase 1.  A drop-in style meeting takes place 4:30 to 6:30 this evening at the Depot at 129 E. Main Street.  The engineering firm Seamon and Whiteside has finished near 60% design drawings.  City officials say members of city council […]

Denise McCormick of Westminster became the first today to enter this year’s race for the Oconee School Board.  An incumbent, McCormick serves as the board chair.  She represents District Four.

The plaintiffs in South Carolina Public Interest Foundation and others have won a temporary injunction against Oconee County.  Judge McIntosh’s ruling today further orders that the dispute needs to be extradited for trial.  As the judge sees it, the Oconee $25 million bond issue is not about the selling of the bonds, but rather the use of the bond money.  […]

Many of his co-workers and friends say they can’t imagine another South Carolina law enforcement officer more deserving of Deputy of the Year than Oconee’s Lucas Watts.  Late last year Corp. Watts nearly lost his life in a shooting while on duty.  The county sheriffs across the state on July 17 at a Myrtle Beach banquet officially named Watts the […]

A qualifying period to run this year for three of the five Oconee school board seats opened at 8 o’clock this morning.  There were no immediate filers.  Available in the November General Election are board seats 2,3, and 5.  It’s a non-partisan election.

One person has been taken by EMS to the hospital for injuries in a Walhalla accident this morning.  The police describe what happened on E. Main Street just before 7 this morning as a side swipe/head-on crash involving a van and an SUV.