Author: Dick Mangrum

Clemson University filed a lawsuit today against the Atlantic Coast Conference, alleging the university should not have to pay a $140 million penalty to withdraw its conference membership. The lawsuit for Clemson, by three law firms for the university, was filed today in the Pickens County Common Pleas Court.  It comes at a time of speculation that Clemson will leave […]

One dozen Oconeeans, along with a public interest foundation, are taking Oconee County to court for an injunction and restraining order – to stop county government’s $25 million bond issue for capital projects, including wastewater improvements.  The plaintiffs are the South Carolina Public Interest Foundation, along with county residents Jim Mann, David Dial, Rachel Moore, Terri Meyerring, Carl Meyerring, Doug […]

David Wagner of Anderson County has racked up 34 years in the business of prosecuting criminal court defendants.  He admits that, at the age of 60, his decision this year to retire as 10th Circuit Solicitor in Oconee and Anderson isn’t easy, but it’s the right decision for him, especially to be able to find more time to spend with […]

Closing arguments and jury deliberations are ahead this morning in an Oconee General Sessions case.  Defendant Charles Edward Moss Jr. went on trial yesterday, charged with trespassing and enhanced shoplifting.  

From Seneca to Greenville goes a high school principal.  Oconee School District has named Ashley Ramirez as the replacement for Seneca High principal Dylan Hudson.  District officials say Hudson is leaving Seneca to be the new principal at Greenville High School.  In his place at Seneca comes former Seneca High math teacher Ramirez.  Currently, she’s an assistant principal at Walhalla […]

Rescuers used a Stokes Basket to help an injured hiker yesterday at Mountain Rest.  The hiker, a female, is believed to have suffered a knee injury during her venture in the vicinity of the Big Bend waterfall south of the Chattooga River corridor.

On a windy Monday afternoon, the Lake Jemiki Road tree that fell yesterday afternoon set off a brush fire near Walhalla.

A two-hour meeting moved Oconee Planning Commission closer to changes in standards that developers must follow.  For a second time this month, the planning commissioners’ meeting was dominated by worries for the potential of a large commercial/residential project on SC 130.  At the outset last night, Chairman Mike Johnson cautioned those audience members opposed to what’s called Keowee River, a […]

A Clemson faculty member will extend a career-long research project to an education institution in Great Britain.  Matt Rhodes-Purdy, assistant professor in the Clemson Department of Political Science, earned a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award to study the challenges and successes of contemporary-era democracies in Manchester, England.  He will join the University of Manchester in 2025 for the spring and summer […]