Author: Dick Mangrum

A 10-year-old South Carolina law stressing the importance of reading at grade level was a major topic during the September meeting of the Oconee County school trustees.  As soon as students are identified as reading below grade level, according to one example of the Read to Succeed Act, schools must provide intensive in-class interventions until the students reach grade level […]

Oconee property owners opening their mail likely next month will see their property tax obligation for 2024.  However, a flier will be included in the envelope for a selected number of property owners.  The selected number of property owners inside five Seneca area precincts will also receive an estimate of their bill for next year, in the event the Corinth-Shiloh […]

A rural service area of Seneca Light and Water remains under a boil advisory until the noon hour today.  The advisory covers customers on 188/the Keowee School Road from the Bountyland traffic lights to 183/the Walhalla-Pickens Highway. This morning Bob Faires, the utilities director, will get a report on the “bad break” that caused a drop in pressure in the […]

Seneca Light and Water announces a 24-hour boil advisory in place for a large swatch of water customers in the vicinity of Lake Keowee.  Bob Faires, utilities director, says the city’s Ebenezer water tank lost pressure, but is being refilled. In the meantime, Seneca water customers along and near SC 188/the Keowee School Road — from the Bountyland intersection north […]

The voting rolls of Oconee County are thinner today — the result of a hearing held this morning by the county board of Registration and Elections.  Jim Murray, board chairman, says three Oconee voters challenged the validity of the registration of 304 voters.  The result, Murray explains, 134 of the 304 have been immediately removed from active voting status.  Murray’s […]

A car stolen in Anderson County turned up on an embankment last week in Long Creek.  And a 57-year-old man that the Oconee Sheriff’s Office believes drove the car was arrested.  The sheriff’s office this afternoon announced the following charges against Playground Road, Walhalla resident Darrell Scott Brooks:  failure to stop for a blue light, resisting arrest, and receiving stolen […]

A car southbound this morning on I-85 in Oconee County left the highway and crashed into the median cables. Chief Larry Wilkerson of the Fair Play Fire Department said the accident left the driver door pinned against the cables, requiring the driver to exit her car on the passenger side.  She was taken to the hospital. According to Wilkerson, a […]