Author: Dick Mangrum

A metal building next to a retail store on Seneca’s By-Pass 123 may be small, but Oconee Democrats say it is full of ideas. The building, next to Harris Sporting Goods, is being prepared to serve as the 2012 election headquarters of the Oconee Democratic Party. The public opening is planned Labor Day, September 3. Voters will be able to […]

A 17-year old student at Greenwood County’s Emerald High School today is wearing the crown of Miss South Carolina Apple Queen. Sara Bates won the title during Saturday night’s contest at West-Oak High School.

Two meetings today for committees of the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority have been called off and re-scheduled. Conflicts on the part of commissioners mean that the finance and the planning and policy committees will next meet on Thursday, September 6.

The week-long trial before a three-judge federal panel begins today in South Carolina versus United States, a case involving South Carolina’s photo identification law. The trial begins at 9 this morning at the U-S District Court in Washington. In the lawsuit, South Carolina is asking a federal court to allow it to implement its photo I-D law in time for […]

At their meeting today, Walhalla Rotary Club welcomes members of Boy Scout Troop 45. The Rotarians this week makes plan for the annual Okoberfest golf tourney, to take place Friday, October 12 at Falcon’s Lair Golf Course.

A sewer overflow lasting one hour occurred Friday morning in Clemson, on Cambridge Drive. According to a notification from the city of Clemson, the overflow amounted to about one thousand gallons the result of a sewer main washed out by heavy rain. Although a utilities crew responded, the overflow reached an un-named creek. The creek passes though Ashley Estates, Monaco […]

Seneca’s elected leaders hold a pair of meetings Tuesday night at City Hall. The evening will start with a work session at 6 o’clock and adjourn into a special meeting afterward. Items of business for the special meeting are county sewer contract, new bank account, and the second and final reading of an ordinance to organize the Seneca Facilities Corporation […]

Scott Krein, director of Oconee Emergency Services, spoke on the importance this week of preparing for a catastrophe. Krein’s audience was an after-hours and membership soiree held by the Walhalla Chamber of Commerce On Tuesday at Janet Neville’s Calyx Farms on highway 11.

Westminster, so far, has 15 applications for the job of police chief, according to City Administrator David Smith.