Author: Dick Mangrum

This land off By-Pass 123 in Seneca bordering Lake Keowee is the subject of a rezoning hearing at 6 tonight at City Hall. The owners hope to building town homes on nearly two acres.

Not long after he bought all the special editions of National Geographic he could find, Ken Sloan carried a couple of copies to the man in charge of South Carolina tourism. Ken Sloan of Mountain Lakes CVB wanted to be sure that Duane Parrish at the S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism knew that the National Geographic had chosen […]

A soldier from Greer was one of two U-S Army casualties November 16 in the Afghanistan province of Paktika. Channing Hicks was 24 years old and died of injuries when the enemy attacked his unit with an I-E-D and small arms fire. Hicks was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Fort […]

Hometown Community Bank of Braselton, Georgia has been closed by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. To protect the depositors, the FDIC entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Easley, South Carolina’s Certus Bank to assume all deposits of Hometown Community Bank. According to the announcement by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, […]

The Army Corps of Engineers begins seasonal weekend closings at the visitors centers at Hartwell Dam and Lake and Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake November 24-February 24. The visitors centers remain open during normal business hours 8 a-m to 4:30 p-m Monday through Friday. All visitor centers are closed on federal holidays. The weekend closings are the result of […]

Three Georgia motorists were part of a multiple-vehicle accident before sun-up this morning in South Carolina. The crash took the life of Guy Arvid Nelson, a 60-year old resident of Oconee County’s Foxwood Hills development on Lake Hartwell. A statement from the SC Highway Patrol said the accident at 6:40 this morning on S.C. 11, nearly four miles south of […]

The building that served as a small Oconee town’s public school is no more. West Union Mayor Linda Oliver said the contractor hired by the town finished demolishing the dilapidated brick building shortly before 1:30 p-m Friday. A group that tried to save the building for preservation and new use plans to put up an official state historic marker nearby.

At 6 o’clock tonight at the Gignilliat Center conference room in Seneca, Kianna Holland of the Lady Bobcats will make good on her commitment and sign a letter of intent to play basketball at Duke University. A senior, Kianna is regarded as one of the country’s top 30 players and the 8th rated guard overall. She’ll be joined a Duke […]

Oconee County is targeting a date to “light up” FOCUS–the project to bring high-speed broadband service countywide. Paul Corbeil, District One county councilman, says the projected date is four months away–Friday, March 15, 2013. The county’s public schools are already beginning to switch to the service, according to Dr. Mike Lucas, county superintendent.

This just in….A 60-year old resident of Fowood Hills near Westminster was this morning’s traffic fatality on S.C. 11. Coroner Karl Addis said Guy Arvid Nelson died in the accident involving his pickup truck and other vehicles shortly after 6:30 a-m at S.C. 11 and Bruce Road.