Author: Dick Mangrum

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.

  Pickens and Anderson chapters of the Fraternal Order of the Police are helping fill an equipment need at the Westminster Police Department. The two chapters delivered checks today to Mike Crenshaw, interim Westminster chief. Crenshaw says a bullet-proof vest is as important a piece of equipment as a police officer’s gun. Crenshaw says vests are expensive, but the $1,920 […]

Tri-County Technical College’s Pre-Pharmacy Advisory Committee was named advisory committee of the year at the college’s annual fall convocation. The committee meets regularly to evaluate and to develop the curriculum and to serve as consultants to the department head, Dr. Suzanne Ellenberger. Its members are Dr. Laura Fox of Presbyterian School of Pharmacy; Kelly Clark of South University; Alissa Smith […]

The way Oconee’s zoning administrator interprets the action last night of the board of appeals is that appeals board members, in their role as judges, agreed with the attorney for St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. 96.3/WGOG NEWS earlier reported last night’s 4-3 vote as a loss for the Walhalla church. But Josh Stephens, zoning administrator, tells us, “Staff followed procedures […]

This morning’s booking report from the Oconee jail runs eight pages, replete with the names of those suspects so far caught up in the county’s latest drug sweep. By 5 yesterday afternoon, the sheriff’s office served 41 warrants on 23 suspects for multiple charges. Those charges include the distribution of methamphetamines, marijuana, prescription drugs, crack cocaine, and cocaine. According to […]