Author: Dick Mangrum

Doors at the Fair-Oak Youth Center, the former public school building, open at 6:30 tomorrow night. The forum , featuring candidates for District Five, Oconee County Council, officially begins at 7. And organizers say all three candidates have confirmed they’ll take part: Republican incumbent Reg Dexter and his Republican petition challengers Greg Connally and James Glenn Hart.

At any given time of the day, Clemson Area Transit buses crisscross Seneca transporting riders free of charge. But that’s Seneca. Now there’s an appetite to extend bus routes into Oconee County. A representative of the county’s bus study company told Seneca City Council how the city can help facilitate a public comment opportunity, likely to be important in determining […]

For today only, Halloween, the Clemson Area Transit bus pickups in downtown Seneca will take place on North First Street in front of City Hall, instead of Main. The “CAT” bus stop moves today to accommodate this evening’s Halloween on the Green and ScareCrow Fest, which runs from 5 to 8 p-m.

Seneca’s WSNW radio wants to extend its reach over the airwaves, and the city is willing to cooperate. During a special meeting, the city council last night gave unanimous consent to negotiate an agreement in which the radio station, headquartered on Ramcat Alley, may place an antenna on the city’s water tower on Waterworks Road, off By-Pass 123. That, says […]

The three men for Oconee Sheriff were packin’ heat last night for what was their 12th and final get together of the political season. They addressed several questions about the jail, officer training, officer pay, and the like, but the real drama was reserved for their final statements. Mike Crenshaw went first and addressed rumors that the individual he has […]

At 128 acres, the wooded sections of Oconee’s Coneross Wastewater Treatment Plant at Seneca teem with turkey and deer and attract hunters. But Bob Winchester says high-power gunfire creates the potential for danger on property which is manned around the clock. Winchester, executive director of the Joint Regional Sewer Authority, says, in the past, there have been instances of gunfire […]

  Hurricane Sandy is devastating parts of the mid Atlantic and Northeast. In South Carolina, the attacker is far more sinister. It’s that cyber attack that has left hundreds of thousands of state residents worried they could become victims of identity theft. State Representative Bill Whitmire, Walhalla Republican, says he and the entire county delegation are concerned, and he has […]

Thanks to its custodians and others, Walhalla Middle School always sports a clean look, according to its principal, Scott Dixon. Today, however, the approximate 35-year old school building looked especially good, perhaps, in anticipation of a special visitor. Dixon was among a group at the front door this morning to welcome the state’s first-term superintendent of education. Dr. Mick Zais […]

A hospice home is where the terminally ill go for their last days. As word spreads and the population grows, the Oconee Hospice of the Foothills anticipates a need for more patient rooms. At 10 tomorrow morning, ground will be broken for the third and final phase of the Cottingham House. And officials say they can anticipate that generous giving […]

Clemson University’s Lee Hall III academic building has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U-S Green Building Council. Lee III is a 56,000-square-foot expansion of the original Lee Hall, the home of the School of Design and Building and the department of art. It is zero-energy-ready, designed to offset its energy expenditure by producing as much energy as it […]