Author: Dick Mangrum

City planning commissioners view an affordable workforce housing project an inappropriate fit on Seneca’s EN 1st Street.  And, after a city hall hearing last night, the commission voted 5-0 against a zoning change sought by Mercy Housing Southeast.  A Mercy Housing representative from Atlanta appealed for a residential zone on what’s zoned general commercial to allow 74 units designed, she […]

“He’s one of our night guys (customers” — a really sweet guy.”  That’s how Kent Kwik in Walhalla describes the holder of a winning lottery ticket — face value $40 thousand.  According to the South Carolina Education Lottery, the holder of that ticket missed the $493 million jackpot by one number and is worth $40 thousand.

An officer of the country’s nuclear watchdog agency says Duke Energy’s application to renew Oconee Nuclear’s license has reached an important stage, and the NRC’s Dave Gasperson says the public is invited – and encouraged –to be part of tomorrow night’s meeting at the Clemson Madren Center.  It’s a public meeting for the draft of the site-specific environmental impact statement […]

A public hearing in Clemson in two weeks could bring out the crowds.  A planned development application, if approved, could lead to major changes inside the corporate limits.  If approved, nine parcels of more than five-and-one-third acres near Keowee Trail and Wall Street, along with a small easement, are to be developed as a mixed-use planned development.  The hearing will […]

A Clemson University junior from New Jersey, Thomas Caputo, is majoring in biochemistry, but he’s spending part of his college time promoting the awareness of healthy hearts.  Caputo founded the Clemson Heart Association.  It’s personal for him.  Caputo never knew his paternal grandfather because the grandfather died of a heart attack when the student’s father was just 11 years old.  […]

A Saturday night political event in Seneca is planned to satisfy a couple of purposes.  Assistant prosecutor Beth Blundy invites the public for a kickoff for her campaign this year to win the office of 10th Circuit Solicitor — Oconee and Anderson counties.  The seat, now held by David Wagner, is available as Wagner has signaled his intent to retire […]

The sky is likely to turn gray when U-S Forest Crews undertake a prescribed burn inside the Andrew Pickens District of the Sumter National Forest.  The burn is planned to immerse about 90 acres in the vicinity of Forest Service roads 2640 and 758 west of Black Mountain Road.  Ignition time is 11 this morning; the fire should be extinguished […]

South Carolina Worklink aims to bring together employers and job seekers.  From 9 this morning to 1 this afternoon at Seneca SC Works, job seekers are invited to meet representatives of several employers.  The location is 104 Vocational Drive, the Bountyland Community.  Among employers to be represented: are Schneider Electric, US Engine Valve, and Lift-Tek.

Is Oconee on the verge of a commercial junkyard law?  This week’s agenda of the county planning commission holds out the possibility of a discussion, public comment, and a vote.  The planning commissioners meet at 6 o’clock Thursday night in county council chambers at Walhalla.

Saturday morning’s fire at Royston, Georgia causes a ripple effect on a strip mall in that northeast Georgia city.  Stores on both sides of the former Dill’s Food City are closed until further notice — the result of water and smoke damage.  Royston Fire Department signs are posted on the doors of Savannah Valley Carpets, Tri-County Sports, and El Manzanillo […]