Author: Dick Mangrum

A longtime Upstate South Carolina TV personality will appear next month in Salem, and Lynne Martin is sending an invitation out to come to hear and meet Beverly Exercise of Greenville’s WGGS-TV (Channel 16).  At 80 years old, Beverly is still active as the host of an exercise show in which she mixes spirituality.  She’s to speak at 1 o’clock […]

South Carolina U-S Senator Tim Scott has a new chief of staff.  He’s Charles Cogar, who worked 10 years as Scott’s legislative director.  Earlier Cogar held various roles in the offices of three other Republican senators and was a senior policy advisor to Scott on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.

South Carolina laws that govern education and training for those who work in licensed or approved child care centers changed this week with the enactment of S. 862, authored by Senator Katrina Shealy of Lexington County. Child care professionals must have one of the following requirements:  high school diploma, high school equivalency recognized by the State Board of Education, certificate […]

A committee of the Walhalla City Council will consider whether one of its sanitation customers qualifies for a refund. The council’s public works committee meets at 5:15 pm Wednesday, July 17 at city hall.

The Oconee-based Ride to Work Ministry needs a treasurer.  If you have a background in finance or accounting and would be willing to volunteer, please go to the website www.rtwministry.org.  Ride to Work is an all-volunteer local non-profit that provides temporary, low-cost rides to and from work to help people become more self-sufficient.

The state agency which advocates for the public’s interest in ratemaking and rulemaking explained why it chose not to sign off on the Duke Energy-Public Service Commission agreement that allows the utility to increase residential, commercial, and industrial power charges starting August 1.  Through its communications director, Scott Cooke, the Department of Consumers Affairs said it “engaged in good faith […]

Improving conditions have allowed Walhalla to lift the restrictions against outdoor watering.  However, in this period of incipient drought, the city water department requests all of its customers to conserve the use of water where and when possible.

The Greenville Better Business Bureau (BBB) continues to get reports of phishing scams.  They take the form of a “debt collector” needs you to pay immediately; a “police officer” claims to have a warrant for your arrest.  In the latest variation, a phony “process server” and a non-existent court case against you.  Among the ways you can protect yourself:  be […]

Pickens County Courthouse is preparing for a lengthy hearing in Clemson University versus Atlantic Coast Conference — the civil case in which Clemson challenges the ACC’s exit fee, should the university leave the conference.  Tomorrow morning’s 10 o’clock hearing in Courtroom #1 at the Pickens County Courthouse might stretch three or four hours.  Judge Perry Gravley will preside. A court […]

John Hamrick parlayed skill and persistence to make a success out of selling Lake Keowee properties for homebuilding.  Although he sold his Lake Keowee Real Estate business in Seneca years ago, Hamrick today is still active in property sales.  You can say he got in practically on the ground floor after the then Duke Power Company built Lake Keowee, as […]