Author: Dick Mangrum

In Westminster, Holly Springs, and Long Creek you should be able to tell that it’s beginning to look a lot like Apple Festival time. The celebration of the annual crop is planned for Labor Day week. The Apple Bowl game between Walhalla and West-Oak is to be played Friday and the festival pageants are Saturday night at West-Oak High School […]

A new program is going to help acquaint Oconee high school age students to the world of business. The Walhalla Area Chamber of Commerce is announcing an ambassadors program, a scholarship-driven program for rising juniors and seniors at the Oconee Christian Academy and Walhalla and Tamassee-Salem high schools. According to the announcement from Vanessa Penton, chamber executive director, the program […]

Night time motor vehicle break-ins are occurring citywide in Walhalla. They have a common theme to them. The vehicles have been left unlocked and the intruders are attracted to valuables they spot in the vehicles. Police Chief Tim Chastain says all Walhallans should keep their vehicles locked and their valuables secured.  

The American Legion building on North Church Street has a place in Walhalla history. Legionnaire Jerry Dyar said yesterday the old white house dates back to 1936, when it was built for the purpose it serves today, as well as place of entertainment for World War One veterans and their wives.

Seneca resident Ernest Riley will call to order a meeting tomorrow in Greenville of the board of directors of the Appalachian Council of Governments. The policymakers for the regional government service organization are to hear a banker make an economic forecast covering the state and the Appalachian region. A-COG planning director Chip Bentley is to report on the federal transportation […]

A former Walhallan has attained advancement in her employment with Piedmont Technical College in Greenwood. Donna Foster moves up from dean of arts and sciences to associate vice president of institutional assessment and compliance. Foster graduated from Walhalla High, and then earned bachelor’s and masters degrees at Clemson University and recently completed her doctorate from the University of South Carolina.

A new, 12-passenger van to transport Oconee veterans to the government health care they require was dedicated during ceremony in Walhalla, attended by dignitaries that traveled from as far as Greenville and Columbia, including Harmon Evans, president of the S.C. Disabled Americans Veterans. Evans helped pay special attention to those who make the van trips possible, the volunteer drivers. James […]

The police in Seneca carried out a methamphetamine raid last night on the 700 block of S. Fair Play Street. They arrested a resident on drug charges and a second man on an un-related charge and say others are being sought and further charges are forthcoming. According to an announcement by Chief John Covington, James Phillip Reid, 30, was charged […]

The latest Oconee Habitat for Humanity home sponsored by Schneider Electric will be dedicated during a Friday afternoon ceremony in Seneca. It’s a 4-bedroom, two-bath home for Rick and Shelia Smith and their four children. The Smiths, along with Schneider Electric employees and their families worked on the site-built house at 907 Jaymory Way. The first Schneider Electric-sponsored house was […]

Westminster leaders are one more vote away from outlawing chickens and other livestock inside the corporate limits. Last night the city council gave preliminary approval to changing the animal control law. The keeping of honeybees will also be outlawed, but the change doesn’t apply to domesticated dogs and cats. Last month the council members discussed concerns raised by residents about […]