Author: Dick Mangrum

Beginning today Salem residents can step up to answer the call of their town. A special election to fill a town council vacancy is planned Tuesday, November 13 and the noon hour today starts a two-week qualifying period for candidates. Whoever wins the special election fills the term created by the resignation of Tony Moore, who moved outside the town […]

The campaign for Oconee Sheriff is intensifying after this summer’s lull and the cancellation of the Republican primary election. The three remaining candidates are being asked to take part in forums during the month of October, including one to take place seven days before the November 6 election day. Mountain Rest Community Club today announced plans for a one-hour forum […]

The group Take Back America announces two public events next month, both to take place at Seneca’s Gignilliat Community Center. From 6 to 8 o’clock Thursday night, October 4 there will be a rally featuring Congressman Jeff Duncan, among the speakers. The following week, according to the group’s Polly Nicolai, a question-answer forum will take place 6 to 8 Tuesday, […]

The Strom Thurmond Institute will host a conversation tomorrow on America’s Global Leadership. The U-S has a long history of helping people overseas struggling to make a better life, and Clemson University lays claim to having developed technologies and approaches that support U-S development efforts from Afghanistan to Kenya. Tomorrow’s conversation, from 11:30 a-m to 12:15 p-m, in the Self […]

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.