Author: Dick Mangrum

Local and area residents insured by United Health Care are likely breathing sighs of relief at the news that the insurer and Prisma Health have kissed and made up.  Prisma late yesterday afternoon announced a multi-year contract that, in the words of the health care provider, ensures United Healthcare members uninterrupted access to all Prisma hospitals, facilities, and physicians.  The […]

A circuit court judge has rejected a plaintiff’s bid to compel the South Carolina Department of Transportation to make safety improvements to Shiloh Road and Goddard Avenue near Seneca.  The ruling was made by 14th Circuit Judge Robert Bonds of Walterboro.  Bonds ruled against the plaintiff, Triumph Donnelly Studios Corporation, identified in court documents as an Arizona corporation with a […]

One of the unusual considerations that master planners for Fair Play is how an interstate highway running right thru it impacts or should impact the un-incorporated community in both Oconee and Anderson counties.  A professional planner from West Pelzer, Blake Sanders, is learning a lot about Fair Play, a quiet and farm area.  But it’s a community that, with the […]

A freedom of information request at Walhalla’s James Brown Elementary School is scheduled as a legal update for Oconee school trustees when they hold their November meeting Monday night in Walhalla.  The legal briefing is scheduled for the private part of Monday’s meeting where the county trustees will also take up personnel matters—employment recommendations and changes.

This afternoon’s Oconee Veterans Day Parade, in Seneca, has been cancelled cause of the rain.

The effort to produce a master plan for Fair Play will advance again today with a follow-up meeting of a corps group from the well-attended September meeting at the Beaverdam Baptist Church about the future of the community that is bisected by I-85 and is part of two counties—Oconee and Anderson.  A similar meeting to the church meeting was held […]

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made this statement in honor of Veterans Day 2021.   “Those who wear the uniform of the United States truly are a force for good in the world.  Members of our Armed Forces have gone all over the world – not to take land, property, or wealth – but to liberate others from oppression […]

A docket of five cases is prepared for next week’s term of the Oconee General Sessions Court.  Resident Circuit Judge Scott Sprouse will hold the gavel in his hand for the court week–Monday through Friday, November 15-19.  The prosecutor’s office indicates it will call the cases of defendants accused of sex, drugs, theft, and traffic charges.  Listed atop the docket […]

Chris Eleazer, the man in charge of Oconee’s wastewater treatment plant, can foresee the need, perhaps, within five years, to upsize the capacity of the facility.  Eleazer wants to see a committee of his policy-making board engage in discussions next week about assessing the facilities including but not limited to upsizing the plant and the trunk and collection lines.  The […]

Veterans are invited for a breakfast at 9 o’clock this morning at the Walhalla Middle School.  It’s a traditional event, and this morning’s breakfast will be followed by an assembly that honors those who served the country.