Author: Dick Mangrum

Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina’s Junior U-S senator, is a co-sender of a letter to the acting Social Security commissioner to immediately reopen SSA’s field offices to the public.  “On March 17, 2020,” the letter from Scott and fellow Republican Mike Crapo of Idaho reads, “the Social Security Administration (SSA) suspended in-person services because of the COVID-19 pandemic.  This suspension […]

A 37-year old Greenville County man faces a Seneca charge of financial identity fraud.  The Seneca police yesterday released details of a case in which a cancelled electric customer did not receive a $500 dollar check from the power supplier.  An arrest warrant accused Randall Adam King of Travelers Rest of financial identity fraud.  The police quote the victim as […]

Driving in parts of Seneca and east of the city were problematic late yesterday afternoon.  At 4 o’clock, tow trucks were removing car wreckage from the Food Lion intersection that made for a long backup for Seneca bound motorists.  The line of traffic that came to a halt stretched on 123 from the Old Seneca-Clemson Highway to Hartwell Village shopping […]

Crimestoppers of Oconee announces the sweetening of reward money for information that solves the truth in the death in 2014 of Clemson student Tucker Hipps.  The North American Inter-fraternity Conference and the Anti-Hazing Coalition have pledged an additional $20 thousand, to make the current potential reward money at $100 thousand.  Hipps’ body was found in Lake Hartwell near the 93 […]

After an executive session, Oconee County Council approved motion to commit up to $200 thousand to buy property adjoining the county landfill at Seneca.  David Root, county attorney, said the deal will require paying closing costs in the transaction.

An armed robbery one year ago at a convenience store near Salem remains unsolved, but it’s a case that Oconee Sheriff’s Office still wants to resolve.  Master Deputy Jimmy Watt, office spokesman, says the investigator assigned to the case would like any information or evidence that can be investigated.  On a Friday night (December 4, 2020), a masked robber pointed […]

An agent with the South Carolina “SLED” Fugitive Task Force tracked a man wanted by North Carolina authorities to an address near Seneca, where he was taken into custody yesterday without incident.  Records released by the Oconee Sheriff’s Office show Jacquerius Tyquale Johnson was taken into custody on Woodgate Drive near the Davis Mill Road.  A warrant issued by Seneca […]

The investigation of a domestic violence incident last weekend in Westminster led the city police to charge a Sunshine Circle resident with domestic violence first degree and malicious injury to personal property.  The domestic violence warrant alleges Bobby Justin Peay, 28, kicked and punched the victim, with a minor child present.

A new location for the office of Visit Oconee.  The new spot is Walhalla’s 224 E. Main Street, the building once occupied by the American Red Cross.  The announcement made by Ken Sloan, Visit Oconee, director.  The department which promotes Oconee as a place to visit and rec-reate previously set up shop in a house office which is shared with […]