Author: Dick Mangrum

The average price for gas at the pump in South Carolina has reached its lowest point in 2013. And the motor club AAA has determined the price has fallen 16 cents in one month. The South Carolina average was $3.09, although some Oconee County convenience stores have priced regular below $3 dollars. Angela Vogel Daley says not lost on AAA […]

A fishing boat, stolen in Georgia, surfaced yesterday on the South Carolina side of Lake Hartwell. And now the owner has been reunited with his Ranger bass boat. The boat was found along the shoreline and turned over to a Hart County investigator to return to the owner.  

A week from today, the investigation of the Walhalla Presbyterian Church fire could wrap up—not only with a determination of the origin of the September 13 fire, but also its cause. Chief Doug Kelley of the Walhalla Fire Department says October 18 is the day insurance investigators from Charleston plan to return to Walhalla for what may be several hours […]

Smoke and apparently fire could be seen from a freight train passing through Oconee County this morning on its way to Georgia. Tracking the train from Seneca to Westminster and beyond, emergency personnel in the county were able to reach Norfolk Southern personnel, and the train was stopped for a brief time while train crews attended to what was wrong. […]

Job seekers are asked to bring resumes to meet employers next week in Seneca. SC Works Link holds its first monthly hiring event 9 a-m to noon Thursday, October 17 at the Gignilliat Community Center. Among employers who’ve confirmed they’ll be present are First Quality Tissue, US Engine Valve, Central Textiles, JM Mold South, and Home Instead Senior Care. According […]

At Chattanooga, Tennessee recently canines ran fast, flew high, and bit hard. They were competing in a championship event to determine the best at snagging spinning discs in mid-air. When the dust settled, a canine from Seneca won top honors. “Abbey Moose” won the Women’s MicroDog Division. The canine belongs to Seneca resident Donna Bradley.  

Why, in 2008, did 56% of the voters say no to paying an extra penny of sales tax to pay for projects that would benefit all of Oconee County? You can ask Keowee Key resident Don Fuller. He has several theories. Fuller is back as a project sales tax commissioner and he gave his colleagues, all of whom are new […]

A half dozen Oconeeans last night were told to make room on their calendars for a great deal of preparation leading to General Election November 2014. That’s Oconee County’s next opportunity to convince the citizenry of the worthiness of paying an extra penny of sales tax for a project or projects for the public good. The six are the appointees […]

Some time Wednesday night or early Thursday thieves raided the construction project for the new Walhalla High School. Their take amounted to 273 feet of copper—worth more than $2 thousand. Jimmy Watt, spokesman for the Oconee Sheriff’s Office, quotes investigators as saying the theft occurred in a part of the new school building and copper was removed from the walls. […]

Property that, for decades, was the location for an Oconee County textile plant is now officially in the hands of a large church. In the last two weeks, records in the county Register of Deeds show that Concord Road, Anderson’s Newspring Church has bought two separate parcels that front both 123 and Lake Hartwell just inside the Oconee County line […]