Author: Dick Mangrum

An exception will be made to permit a mobile home on Walhalla’s North Johnson Street. After a hearing yesterday, the board of zoning appeals voted 4 t 0 to permit Joyce Belmore to place a mobile home on Lot 6 on N. Johnson.  

A 44-year old Pickens County man is being sent to federal prison for 10 years for child pornography. The government announced the sentence handed up by Judge Tim Cain to Jackie Dean Barnes of Easley. Here’s the announcement from U-S Attorney Bill Nettles: “Evidence presented at the change of plea hearing established that on October 27, 2011, law enforcement conducted […]

Competing with the World Series and a televised Clemson game made for a small audience at last night’s League of Women Voters’ forum in Seneca. However, Oconee political observers are telling 96.3/WGOG NEWS that attendance at this fall’s forums has dropped, and they’ve failed to duplicate the drama that last spring’s forums featured when James Bartee waged his campaign for […]

A city of Clemson employee, David Chastain, won first place yesterday in the Larry Brooks Memorial Backhoe Rodeo. Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority employee Johnny Ellenburg placed second. Doug Sterling of Seneca Light and Water finished third. The tournament, held at the Kellett complex in Seneca, was named for Larry Brooks, a Seneca Light and Water employee since 1989. A […]

Clemson University police arrested three Liberty men in the theft of a safe from a campus dining hall. According to a university announcement, charged with grand larceny more than $2 thousand and criminal conspiracy to commit grand larceny are 20-year old Jacob Matthew Fulmer, 23-year old Robert Matthew Fulmer, and 31-year old James Richard Smith. The three worked for Clemson […]

Part of two-lane S.C. 28 north of Walhalla is blocked, as responders deal with an accident in the vicinity of Stumphouse Tunnel Road. State troopers report injuries in the accident at 11:10 a-m.

A suspicion of whether a prescription had been altered has led to the arrest in Westminster of a 32-year old man who told police that he was seeking relief from pain. The police have charged William Gentry Watkins of Westminster with obtaining prescription by fraud. Watkins was arrested yesterday after Westminster police officers Ashe and Sanders conducted an investigation at […]

Leaves are now being picked up by the city of Clemson Department of Public Works. The leaf vacuum truck will be in service until the end of February, or as determined by the supervisor. Many Clemson residents use the city’s “pulverized leaf material” for mulch/ground cover around trees, flower beds and garden areas. Clemson residents who who would like this […]

State troopers are reporting an accident with injuries this morning on U-S 76/the Long Creek Highway. The accident was reported at 10:16 a-m.

To celebrate 50 years, Tri-County Technical College buried a time capsule that’ll give future students and administrators a glimpse of the college and its important events of 2012. The time capsule is small, hermetically-sealed cube containing symbolic items, It was buried yesterday by President Ronnie Booth and student leaders during a ceremony outside the Student Center. The capsule is to […]