Author: Dick Mangrum

Attorneys for Oconee County will argue next month in favor of dismissing a legal challenge to the county’s controversial $25 million dollar bond issue.  The attorneys — Lane Davis and William Wilkins — are due in court to make a motion to dismiss.  They’ll be opposed by James Carpenter of the South Carolina Public Interest Foundation, one of the plaintiffs.  […]

Two Oconee fire departments will hold important community meetings.  Corinth-Shiloh’s first of three public information meetings about its planned special tax district referendum takes place at 5:30 tomorrow evening at the fire station on the Old Seneca-Clemson Highway.  Mountain Rest Volunteer Fire Department invites all community members for open house from 11 to 3 on Saturday, when they’ll prepare 1,000 […]

Sheriff Crenshaw of Oconee County is greatly disappointed in one-half of the South Carolina Legislature — for failure to discuss and/or vote on Senate bill 1.  He’s referring to the state House of Representatives.  Senate bill 1 is  referred to as the drug-induced homicide legislation which Crenshaw and other South Carolina sheriffs believe would send to jail distributors of fentanyl […]

Oconee County needs poll workers to manage the voting precincts June 11.  If you are interested, more information is available on the State Election Commission website:  https://scvotes.gov/poll-managers/

Church missions will benefit from a BBQ dinner to be served this Saturday by Walhalla Presbyterians, and Jess Neville is the man to see about tickets.  They cost $12 dollars and are available at Neville Hardware at West Union at 864-638-2531.  For $12 dollars, you can enjoy barbecue pork, slaw, baked beans, bread, water or tea, and cookies.  The event […]

A federally chartered health clinic arrived in Westminster on Friday afternoon when the board of directors of the Rosa Clark Health Center showed off their satellite facility on E. Main Street.  A number of prominent city officials were on hand for a combination open house/drop-in in what used to be a place of worship behind the county magistrate’s office.  In […]

Oconeeans of a senior age who have questions about next month’s coupon distribution, as sponsored by the United Way, should call the Oconee County United Way at 864/882-9743.  The United Way is renting facilities at Seneca’s Blue Ridge Community Center for the Tuesday, June 4 event.  And LaShauna Harrison of the United Way says the Blue Ridge Community Center is […]

Whether you think Oconee spends too much on public education — or not enough — there’s opportunity tonight for you to register your thoughts.  At its 6 o’clock meeting at district headquarters, the county trustees will entertain public comment on their spending plan for 2024-25.

A 40-year-old Six Mile man was pronounced dead at the scene of a late Friday night accident in Pickens County near the Oconee County line.  Andrew Wilson, chief Pickens County deputy coroner, said Jonathan Reid Hancock at the time was driving a Volkswagen on the Old Seneca Road when the car went off the side of the road near Issaqueena […]