Author: Dick Mangrum

Sewer right of way for the new Walhalla High is a matter for Oconee school trustees to deliberate during an executive session, planned at the end of tonight’s regular September meeting. At their meeting tonight, Seneca planning commissioners elect officers and conduct other items of business.

A week-long term of Oconee General Sessions Court begins this morning at the courthouse in Walhalla. The prosecutor’s office has listed a case alleging criminal sexual conduct with a minor for the trial docket. Circuit Judge Cordell Maddox presides.

West Union officials say the demolition of the old school building has been delayed. The reason they say are licensing problems for a sub-contractor who is to handle the removal of asbestos.  

The good news is, we can kill them. The bad news, it’ll cost us. And the damage they do in the meantime will cost even more. Kudzu bugs, first discovered northeast of Atlanta three years ago, have swept through Georgia and the Carolinas. The invading Asian insects leave destruction in their wake, especially to soybeans, a staple crop for farmers. […]

Clemson University employees are planning a series of events to honor a fellow employee who was the victim of what authorities determined was a case of murder-suicide this summer in Oconee County. The murder victim was Marjorie Putnam. The Pennell Center for Real Estate Development is planning an October 4 reception to celebrate Putnam’s life. Along with the Women’s Studies […]

The new volunteer physician at Oconee’s only free medical clinic, Rosa Clark of Seneca, is an emergency physician at Oconee Medical Center. Dr. James Gill attended East Tennessee State and completed his internship and residency at Louisiana State University.

Once the town hall questions finished, each member of the panel was invited to make closing comments. And Reg Dexter, the District Five county councilman, announced that he and others had received a Freedom of Information request, which he takes issue with. At the close of last night’s meeting, Dexter announced his response to the FOIA request from The Journal, […]

Oconee County councilmen are stressing the importance for the county to have product ready if it ever is going to make strides in the job gain. As Councilman Paul Corbeil put it last night, it’s one thing to have the real estate available for an interested industry, but the key is to “have the pad ready.” One of the early […]

The impending loss of about 600 jobs with the closing of the Seneca plant of Covidien was a prime topic during at least two meetings yesterday involving county and state officials. As one participant put it last night, it probably gets down to a corporate decision on which government has no influence to change, though one county councilman remains hopeful […]

The executive director of the S-C Department of Commerce in Oconee County today said he knew unofficially that there was a likelihood that the Covidien plant near Seneca would be closing, but found out for sure only yesterday—the day that the Massachusetts-based company confirmed the rumors. Bobby Hitt told a luncheon meeting of the Oconee Alliance that his department had […]