Author: Dick Mangrum

The seven-year-old civil case of Stokes vs. Oconee apparently has been settled, just prior to its scheduled trial date of today.  However, when contacted, Amanda Brock, Oconee County administrator, said, “It is not ‘officially’ settled and at present there are no terms to disclose.  We are in process,” Brock said.  

Drug cases resulting from state grand jury indictments are docketed this week in the Oconee County General Sessions Court at Walhalla.  The day will be Thursday, and that’s when spokesman Robert Kittle of the Attorney’s General Office says defendants snared in two drug investigations — Rocket Fuel and Prison Empire — will be heard in the Oconee County courtroom.

A South Carolina grant of $15,750 dollars has been approved for Walhalla solid waste purposes.  The money comes from the Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling and  to be allocated toward three initiatives:  new trash and recycling containers; support of professional development; and part of the grant toward public education efforts on the importance of recycling and proper waste […]

What might have been a two or three-day Oconee civil trial this week will, after all, not take place.  Clerk of Court Lisa Burton this morning explained that word has been received of an agreement in Stokes v. Oconee and, as a result, a 175 jury pool has been told not to report.

An Oconee woman is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this morning for the start of the four-day Republican National Convention.  Serving as a delegate from Oconee is Pat Murray, the leader of the county GOP Women’s Club.  Among those taking part in the convention there’s relief that former President Trump survived an assassination attempt but dismay that such a thing could happen.

  Was it luck?  Or an example of diligence on the part of a young real estate agent?  John Hamrick’s competitors have probably wondered how it came to be that he got a foot in the door when it came to being the preferred property seller for a Duke Power subsidiary that managed lakeshore properties the electric power utility didn’t […]

A meeting of the Westminster Planning Commission takes place at 6 tonight at city hall.

U-S Rep. Jeff Duncan calls for an independent commission to investigate what he considers as a catastrophic failure to protect former President Trump at a campaign rally Saturday near Pittsburgh.  Duncan, 3rd District Republican from Laurens, says the first question to be answered is how a rooftop line-of-sight position was left unpatrolled or uncovered by kinetic surveillance.

Oconee Democratic Party will host a visit by the party’s nominee for U-S House of Representatives from the South Carolina Third Congressional District.  The public is invited to meet and hear Byron Best of Greenwood at 6:30 Thursday night, July 18 at party headquarters, S. College Street, Walhalla.