Author: Dick Mangrum

Everyone is invited to the Farm Center tomorrow on Sandifer Boulevard for an antique tractor and engine show.  The hours are 9 am to 3 pm.  Kevin Harbin, a board member of the Farm Center, says for a show theme, they are borrowing “Bygone Days” — the title of a book by the late D. Land.  For many years, Land […]

In yesterday’s storm a bolt of lightning struck a tall tree along Fowler Road.  The location was near a home, but Walhalla Fire Department stopped the fire before it could spread.

Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority would like comment for the potential of the Fair Play/Townville Area Sewer Basin.  The latest phase of the project is gathering information, and the JRSA’s Chris Eleazer says people may go to www.ojrsa.org/resources and access info about the study by selecting the link to “Sewer Basin Public Survey”.  You can take an online survey below […]

Fire broke out in a home near Westminster.  Fire fighters were sent around 7 last night to an address on the Miller Farm Road.  No one reported hurt.  There’s word this morning that two boys are OK after they became temporarily stranded in their kayak yesterday afternoon on Lake Jocassee.  The difficulty for the 12 and 14-year old boys came […]

The Oconee Sheriff’s Office announcement: “The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in the homicide of Nancy Popham.   Deputies were dispatched to a residence located at 119 Country Kin Rd., Seneca SC on July 4, 2022 at 4:24PM for a cardiac arrest. Upon their arrival Deputies located a 67 year female, Nancy Popham, deceased at the residence. […]

Here is the announcement from Pickens County Sheriff’s Office: “At approximately 9:15 PM on July 7th, 2022, while investigating a report of an unusual odor, deputies with the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office located the body of what appears to be an adult male in the 3100 block of Pumpkintown Hwy, roughly 8/10 of a mile from the home of Francis […]

A stolen F-350 Platinum pickup truck is the object of an Oconee Sheriff’s Office investigation.  The truck belonging to Edwards Auto Sales carried a sticker value of $83,270 and was reported stolen from the lot during the night of June 21-22.  A sheriff’s deputy requested that his office enter the vehicle into the NCIC—the National Crime Information Center.

  The police in Seneca arrested a 34-year old woman last evening in their investigation of a car hijacking in which the suspect hit the owner and stole his car.  That car, which displayed a South Dakota license plate, was found behind the home of the woman arrested.  Law enforcement records show a charge of carjacking without great bodily injury […]