Author: Dick Mangrum

For 20 years, Seneca has run a bus passenger service that drew accolades for its achievement of a fleet of all electric-powered buses.  But that fell apart last night when city council emerged from executive session and voted to withdraw its arrangements with “CAT” – Clemson Area Transit – and to sell of the bus service assets.  Only Councilwoman Benson […]

Seneca will turn to the state police to investigate as the result of an audit.  Here are the words of Councilman Honeycutt’s motion passed last night in city council chambers: “I make a motion to request the city administrator to request SLED to conduct a formal criminal investigation based upon the findings of the audit.”  The vote followed a closed-door […]

The organizer says a parade of boats next month on Lake Keowee will help promote the candidacy of Republican nominee for President Donald Trump.  It’s also, says Seneca area resident Candy Bianco, a way to fly the colors and promote democracy.  Bianco took part in the 2020 lake boat parade for Trump; this time, she’s taken it on herself to […]

A real estate outfit is announcing the sale of a Blue Ridge Mountains home said to have been the favorite of the late actor Burt Reynolds.  The sale fetched $2.9 million, according to TopTenRealEstateDeals.com.  The home in Highlands, North Carolina was built in 1972, the same year that the movie “Deliverance” premiered with Reynolds in the starring role.  The listing […]

A power outage is believed to affect parts of Walhalla — in the vicinity of E. Main Street/the Blue Ridge Boulevard and Kenneth Street.  A number of businesses are said to be impacted.

Tenth Circuit Judge Scott Sprouse of Walhalla has approved the settlement of a lawsuit alleging medical malpractice and wrongful death against Prisma Health Upstate.  Sprouse was told this morning the parties agreed to a settlement of $550 thousand for plaintiff Bobbi Oxford.  The judge heard brief remarks about the case that involved the death in 2022 of Oxford’s five-year-old son.  […]

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 […]