Author: Dick Mangrum

Walhalla will start line connections at 9 this morning for its highway 11 water project.  While connections are made, customers may experience temporary loss of pressure.  Areas affected include Scenic Heights Road, Fowler Road, and surrounding neighborhoods.  The city extends a thank you for customers’ patience as it continues to invest in the system infrastructure.  A combination of “ARPA” — […]

A car driver became trapped near Seneca in the wreckage of his vehicle and a tractor-trailer truck yesterday afternoon on the Shiloh Road.  After being extricated, the injured were placed in an ambulance for transport to Greenville.  Two-lane Shiloh Road between Goddard Avenue and Carson Road was closed to thru traffic while crews attended to a leak from the tractor-trailer […]

An arrest warrant accuses a rural Oconee man of assaulting a deputy sheriff who, along with a second officer, had gone to a Spy Mountain Road, Westminster home Sunday night on a domestic disturbance call.  According to a sheriff’s office incident report, Matthew Dillard Fowler allegedly head-butted and shoulder-checked Deputy Hemingway after Fowler was handcuffed and led to the patrol […]

A provider of indoor climate technology will open its first South Carolina operation in Anderson County.  Family-owned Halton MEI USA, Inc. was founded in 1969 in Finland.  For 35 countries, Halton designs, manufactures and delivers indoor environment products for marine, energy, and heavy industry.  A 39 thousand square foot space is being leased on Exchange Logistics Park Drive in Piedmont.  […]

A 55-year prison sentence has been meted out in Pickens County to a woman caught up in the state grand jury investigation of Prison Empire.  Jennifer Nicole Burns pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine, 400 grams or more (Conspiracy); possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime; and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.  According to the office […]

Matthew Durham, re-nominated in the June Republican primary, says the results of Oconee County voting are a sign of “a broader, sustained conservative movement that is reshaping South Carolina politics.  And the  county council chairman points to Adam Duncan winning the GOP nomination to succeed Bill Sandifer in the South Carolina House as most notable in significant victories for their […]

A horticulture expert at Clemson University took an unusual path to her professorship.  The patented variations of Ksenija Gasic could help solve the problems plaguing the South Carolina peach industry.  In a profile of the Clemson Research Foundation, Gasic is seen picking a peach at the Musser Fruit Research Center in the Friendship Community of Oconee County.  She grew up […]

Duke Energy received a variance and a special exception for a new communications tower to be located on Oconee nuclear property off SC 130.  The county board of zoning appeals cast unanimous votes last night, after a hearing at which no one from the public spoke.  Duke will be allowed to extend the height of the tower to 310 feet […]