Author: Dick Mangrum

U-S Attorney Bill Nettles says members of his office and law enforcement partners are meeting tomorrow with South Carolina students, as part of of the state’s annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence. Students at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Elementary, Fair-Oak Elementary, and Tamassee-Salem Elementary will sign pledge that if they see a gun they will not touch it, they will assume […]

The regular October meeting of Westminster City Council begins at 5:30 this evening at City Hall. Agenda items include a skateboard park, the 2013 Mayberry Festival, and purchase of a swimming pool lift to meet ADA requirements.

To celebrate its 50th year, Tri-County Technical College will bury a time capsule filled with items that will give future students and administrators a glimpse of the college and its important events of 2012. The capsule is a small cube containing symbolic items, ranging from graduation programs and college publications to presidential election bumper stickers to People magazine. It will […]

Preliminary approval was granted last night at Seneca City Hall for a 48-unit senior citizen housing project in the city’s Northside Community. To accommodate the builder, the city planning commission agreed to annex the property and assign an R-M 8 zoning classification. Builder Phil Ellen said senior housing apartments are his family’s business. The approvals, in the form of recommendations […]

A Clemson student from Pennsylvania died early today of injuries suffered in a car crash in Oconee County. The death of Tyler Earl Sands of Exton, Pennsylvania came on Sands’ 22nd birthday. He was a passenger in a 2008 Audi A-R that Coroner Karl Addis says was driven by Sands’ friend Patrick Michael McCool, 20-year old resident of Vienna, Virginia. […]

An Oconeean who presides over one of the highest courts in the land told of his new life today as a federal court judge. Tim Cain, guest speaker at the Walhalla Rotary Club, talked about the process of being appointed by the White House, described how the federal court system works, and gave examples of the kinds of cases that […]

Everyone is urged to bring a covered dish and a friend Saturday night to the Mountain Rest Community Club. The after-dinner speaker will be Wayne McCall, District Two county councilman. The dinner-meeting begins at 6.  

More than 140 vehicles were processed Saturday in Seneca, as part of Oconee’s latest household hazardous waste collection day. The event was held in the parking lot of Seneca High School, where volunteers helped collect items that can’t be disposed of at the solid waste convenience centers—such as household cleaners, chemicals, solvents—even old medications. Bob Winchester, chairman of the Local […]

Someone apparently stole a quantity of copper wire used to help make electric connections at Sertoma Field for Walhalla’s annual Obtoberfest. The theft was discovered just last week, leaving only a few days for the city to order new wire so that the individual booths can access electrical connections during the three-day weekend that begins Friday. Blake Norton, a member […]

Oconee County administration is attempting today to set the record right as to next month’s sewer referendum. It says, “On November 6, 2012 voters will be asked to authorize Oconee County the use of available funds, special tax district funding, or property taxes as potential sources of funds for the ownership, construction and operational costs of future approved sewer projects […]