Author: Dick Mangrum

What Keowee Fire Department leaders see as “triple taxation” is likely to continue, in spite of pleas to county and state officials. In a summary of the government year ended June 30, the Keowee Fire Commission said, “The property owners of the District continue to pay into the General Fund of the County for fire services plus a fire assessment […]

A police chase in Seneca that started on Perkins Creek Road and ended across town at a home on Allen Street covered at least eight other streets and some in the county. In the end a Seneca policeman drew his gun to capture the suspect who abandoned the pickup truck and ran into the home at 306 Allen Street and […]

Incumbents face no ballot opposition. The deadline to be a ballot candidate in this fall’s election for three seats on Oconee School Board passed today with no challenges to the three incumbents. It means, barring a successful as yet publicly unannounced write-in campaign, that Rosemary Bailes of District Two, Denise McCormick of District Four, and Buddy Herring of District Five, […]

An Oconee General Sessions Court jury is to begin hearing testimony this afternoon in the trial of an Anderson man. Charles Harris is charged with solicitation of a minor. The S.C. Attorney’s General Office is handing the prosecution, while defendant Harris is represented by Public Defender Danny Day.

A young Westminster man has been hospitalized in Greenville with injuries suffered in a weekend accident on S.C. 24. According to information received by 96.3/WGOG NEWS, Will Sandifer was injured in the accident early yesterday morning near West-Oak High School. Sandifer, a student at Greenville Technical College, was transported by medical aircraft to the hospital.

The first day of classes for a new academic year at Clemson University will be Wednesday, August 22. So, between now and then, expect a steady drift of students back on campus. The university will start the the 2012-13 year with the annual Welcome Back Festival Monday, August 20, 5:30 to 8 p.m. on College Avenue in downtown Clemson.

A meeting of the “RINO” movement, Republicans in name only, takes place this week in Seneca. Some candidates in the November General Election plan to take part, but apparently not local and area incumbent members of the state legislature. According to meeting organizer Britt Adams, two state lawmakers say they have conflicts Thursday night; two others had yet to reply […]

A Sunday afternoon fire near West Union destroyed an empty barn. Assistant Chief Jess Neville of the West Union Volunteer Fire Department said the fire occurred near Cook Lane in the Poplar Springs Community. Neville said the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Public school classrooms open for a new year in Oconee County, one week from tomorrow. So, what’s Superintendent Mike Lucas blogging about this morning? It’s an announcement that all teachers and instruction staff return to work tomorrow, to get ready for August 21. But, as Lucas says, many teachers have been working for weeks in their classrooms and at home […]

The League of Women Voters of South Carolina takes the position that the preference of the state legislature for a voter photo ID bill would be a requirement too costly. And Eleanor Hare, representing the Clemson chapter, says what South Carolina already requires to establish the identity of someone casting a vote is adequate. The challenge to South Carolina’s proposed […]