Author: Dick Mangrum

Westminster Councilman Yousef Mefleh says he changed his vote and that last night created the margin in favor of getting rid of a $7 dollar utility meter fee.  A second 4-3 vote this time, besides doing away with the controversial fee, also raises water charges for customers outside the city limits. Earlier in the meeting Attorney Rick McDuff, representing the […]

The Oconee Community Theatre’s Sunday Gray will be the guest speaker at tomorrow’s meeting of the Seneca Rotary Club.

An anti-drug program that had its roots in Los Angeles has made a return to Oconee County, after an absence of 17 years.  Oconee Sheriff Mike Crenshaw has seen to it that “DARE”—Drug Abuse Resistance Education—is being taught again in county elementary schools.  The program is primarily targeted to fifth graders.  It is not confined to spreading the message against […]

This afternoon’s board meeting in Oakway of the Pioneer Rural Water District has been called off.  Pioneer’s Heather Bryant says the culprit is a familiar one–COVID-19.

Companies interested in working as construction manager at risk for the Oconee public schools are invited next month to submit RFPs—sealed requests for proposals.  Two companies—J-Davis and Trehel—serve currently in those capacities, but district administrator Steve Hanvey says, “We are required to do a new proposal every 5 years.  There are a couple of waivers you can request that we […]

The Pickens County coroner’s office has identified the fatality in yesterday’s head-on crash on SC 183 near Pickens as a 35-year old driver from Spartanburg, Brandan Scott Hammett.

As the Oconee sewer commissioners think over the debt they will likely accrue to address capital improvement projects, they’ve been given a suggestion how they could further improve their standing with the financial world.  Hesitant as he was to bring it up Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, said it might be wise for the Joint Regional Sewer Authority to press […]

Gas prices in the Carolinas last week dropped another one to two cents, but AAA Motor Club cautions that pump prices could soon edge higher–due to the price surge in crude oil, which is closing in on $80 a barrel.  Because the global price accounts for nearly one half of what consumers pay at the pump, higher oil costs usually […]

State troopers reported one driver was killed in an accident around the noon hour yesterday in a crash in rural Pickens County.  The state patrol is referring reporters to the county coroner for the identity of the deceased pickup truck driver.  The other driver was identified as Six Mile resident Denver C. Elrod, 26.  Trooper Miller said Elrod was uninjured.  […]