Author: Dick Mangrum

An Oconee General Sessions judge, Thomas Rode of Charleston, was weighing decisions today from bond hearings at the Oconee Courthouse.  Rode took under advisement a defense lawyer’s request to lower the bond for a Seneca man charged with attempted murder January 7 in the Utica Community.   Defendant Montavious Williams is under a bond of $550 thousand, an amount called “exorbitant” […]

Seven Oconeeans are part of a coalition to back the campaign of a Clarendon County farmer Cody Simpson and his bid to be the Republican nominee this year for South Carolina agriculture commissioner.  On the Cody for SC Farmers Coalition from Oconee are Tim Donald, Daniel McPhail, Paige McPhail, Steve Priole, Valerie Priole, Charles Whiten, and Andy Whiten.

A weekend domestic violence responded to by the Oconee sheriff’s Office led to three charges against a 21-year-old man.  County deputies say they found an adult female at an address near the Shiloh Road with what, the sheriff’s office reported, a manifestation of injuries.  The following charges were placed against Sergio Edward Mast:  breach of peace, resisting arrest, and domestic […]

Public safety responders extricated two persons trapped inside the wreckage of a car and a tractor-trailer truck yesterday afternoon at the Wells Highway and 123 – the Seneca-Clemson Corridor.  According to the Corinth-Shiloh Fire District, personnel safely removed the two persons trapped.  They were treated at the scene by Prisma EMS and sent to the hospital for further evaluation.  There […]

An arrest last evening in the Poplar Springs community, in which the sheriff’s office charged a 56-year-old man with the use of firearm under the influence. A deputy sheriff interviewed nearby residents about the discharge of a rifle in the vicinity of N. Pond Fork Road.  The arresting officer said he collected nine spent shell casings and called it reckless […]

At the 2 o’clock hour, a serious accident on 123/Seneca-Clemson Corridor at Wells Highway.  We have an unofficial report of a car, occupied by two persons, wedged beneath a tractor trailer.  Traffic backed up on Wells and both ways on 123.

Legal assistance for the first-year Corinth-Shiloh Fire special fire district….Approved as the result of an executive session last week, according to Board Chairman Wayne Smith, was the hiring of Seneca attorney Andrew Holliday.  According to Smith, Holliday is to advise the commissioners about the future of the department volunteers’ 501-C3.  Smith also said the commissioners are anticipating the appointment by […]

Fresh off the press are color-coded maps of the Walhalla Stumphouse Mountain Park. They depict the parking, the restrooms, the picnic area, and scenic views. The famous tunnel, the waterfall, and most importantly, for active retreaters:  the Mountain bike trailhead, the hiking trailhead, the adaptive bike trail, and the bike repair station.

This year’s state champs, the Lady Razorbacks, will parade through Walhalla at 6 tonight.  The hope is the streets will line with Razor fans and others to cheer the winners.  They won the state 3-A title Friday in Columbia, defeating Keenan 70-58.